Apostle,
Glad to hear that you are coming down our way. Like VXCAVER said, stock tires are fine. That rock thing can be fixed too...just got to look out for them and avoid them . Victor (VCAMILO) has worn out road tires/stock height that he has used on all our trips and he has had no problems (though he tells me new tires are in the near future). He usually follows me up the harder stuff (hes a little crazy like that) ;eekr; . As far as snow, unless its on the road on your way here you won't run into any on this trip (hopefully ma' nature won't pull some surprise out of her sleeve and make me eat my words). We were having 95 temps up till today. Fall finally hit and it dropped down to a bone chilling 86 !Also like VXCAVER said if we can do anything to help let us know!
Now where are those Californians?