We live in SE Arizona for the past 12 years, originally from Western Oregon, where the Willys saw mud, snow and brush when elk and deer hunting, or just "mud running". Now it sees washes, desert, heat, monsoon rains, and when Elk hunting in the Central East part of AZ, pine, spruce and cold (9000 ft.) The older I get, the better I like the heat. But remember, "its a dry heat". Yea, and its also a "dry" rain too. Jim