galen211
03-04-2008, 03:54 PM
Jess and I went out snowshoeing today in the state forest Sunday. I was using roads that aren't maintained and have had snowmobiles running up and down them since we got snow Friday night.
Went to pass some snowmobilers and got sucked into a ditch. Everything I did to work myself out made it worse. Eventually got the front end in a culvert tube.
Called Sven and he came out with straps (I had all mine but they were pretty useless without someone to pull me, had a shovel too and that wasn't helping) we tried for two hours to get my truck out with no luck; Sven couldn't get the grip to pull me out. Finally a guy came by in a Bronco and pulled me right out. Drove the two miles back out to the hard road and realized we forgot Sven's hi-lift and chain along the road. So we drove back in and got them.
Went out Saturday and drove 10 miles of the back roads no problem, but Sunday the conditions were different and I should have never gotten so far off the road to get out of the snowmobilers way. They don't even slow down when they pass you, don't even stop to ask if you are OK.
Needless to say now I know why you travel in groups and the winch rebuild has taken a bigger priority. Thank God Jess is a good sport, she held up well through the whole thing.
There really is a reason they tell you not to travel alone.
The pictures don't do justice to how bad it was in there.
Went to pass some snowmobilers and got sucked into a ditch. Everything I did to work myself out made it worse. Eventually got the front end in a culvert tube.
Called Sven and he came out with straps (I had all mine but they were pretty useless without someone to pull me, had a shovel too and that wasn't helping) we tried for two hours to get my truck out with no luck; Sven couldn't get the grip to pull me out. Finally a guy came by in a Bronco and pulled me right out. Drove the two miles back out to the hard road and realized we forgot Sven's hi-lift and chain along the road. So we drove back in and got them.
Went out Saturday and drove 10 miles of the back roads no problem, but Sunday the conditions were different and I should have never gotten so far off the road to get out of the snowmobilers way. They don't even slow down when they pass you, don't even stop to ask if you are OK.
Needless to say now I know why you travel in groups and the winch rebuild has taken a bigger priority. Thank God Jess is a good sport, she held up well through the whole thing.
There really is a reason they tell you not to travel alone.
The pictures don't do justice to how bad it was in there.