I don't disagree with Jeff's statements for what he has seen personally. I'm often in awe when I go to a popular area and poke out of the trees to see the vast majority of the parking lot, sitting at the bottom of bowls and watching sled after sled make a run up a hill. I'll sit there in the Sun and watch too, while I eat my lunch. Then I'll make my own various shots up the hill and round up our group and go disappear again.
If I was making those trips out West I'd be going to the popular places, such as Boulder Mtn in Revy, but as a semi-local, we usually veer off onto Turtle or some other area. We hit Boulder mostly because we want to run into someone that we know will be riding there, or we are taking people that want to see the area. Even then, I point out a few of the 'spectacles' but move on rather quickly.
As far as weight goes, I can muscle a lot of different sleds to a lot of different areas...so it becomes more of a question of, "Do I want to" and not, "Can I" plain and simple, I can put my T-Vec most places I can put either of my 2s. More effort is required, and with that means I end up upside down in a treewell a few more times than I might on my 2s. But there's also the upside as well.
Even so, I usually ride in the trees to get to the top of a mountain, over and over again. There isn't one gulley we play in for hours on end. We are constantly moving. That usually means dropping into, and climbing out of multiple bowls/hills/gulleys a day.
We never sit on one hillside and traverse back and forth and back and forth. And that's the vibe I get from some people on here. I'd find that too boring. I don't see the argument people are having here, it's a personal decision to ride whatever they want, nobody should be defending their purchase, then again, nobody should be asking a bunch of keyboard jockeys what sled is right for them either. And we all know there's one or two of those threads around too. LOL