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So I broke the first rule of off roading, I didn't go with a buddy. I had planned to go but he broke an axle so since it was a mild trail with a few "small" mud holes it thought I would be fine. I thought wrong.
The day went fine the trail was good and fun, I've been there before. We were on our way back and I exited a river inlet finger, got to the top and my front slipped down as the trail broke. This turned me 90 degrees, all four tires now in the muck and silt and my front tight up against a small 2 1/2 foot wall of hard clay silt. I knew I was FUBARed! So I drop to 4 low lock the axles and move about 3 feet then sink about a foot. I call a buddy and he gets stuck, we call another buddy, he just spins and can't get purchase on the ground. About 15 hours into it the jeep sinks past her tires, still running so were good, we decide to dig the bank out with hand shovels (special thanks to my brother) 6 hours of chest deep water from the rivers tide I presume we find out I am hung up on a bent drawtite hitch, and what we believe to be a full car(its a legend that a car completely is swallowed there) we leave it and let it idle over night, the 3 hours left. Come back the next day and get my buddies power stroke on 40 inch super swappers to rope up and tug my stuck ass out! 30 hours of digging getting stuck and getting more stuck and getting two other trucks unstuck we get out. I have since decided that I want to get dedicated mud tires and leave my Toyos for trails and rock. Here are some pictures. Keeps crashing photos as soon as I get home
The day went fine the trail was good and fun, I've been there before. We were on our way back and I exited a river inlet finger, got to the top and my front slipped down as the trail broke. This turned me 90 degrees, all four tires now in the muck and silt and my front tight up against a small 2 1/2 foot wall of hard clay silt. I knew I was FUBARed! So I drop to 4 low lock the axles and move about 3 feet then sink about a foot. I call a buddy and he gets stuck, we call another buddy, he just spins and can't get purchase on the ground. About 15 hours into it the jeep sinks past her tires, still running so were good, we decide to dig the bank out with hand shovels (special thanks to my brother) 6 hours of chest deep water from the rivers tide I presume we find out I am hung up on a bent drawtite hitch, and what we believe to be a full car(its a legend that a car completely is swallowed there) we leave it and let it idle over night, the 3 hours left. Come back the next day and get my buddies power stroke on 40 inch super swappers to rope up and tug my stuck ass out! 30 hours of digging getting stuck and getting more stuck and getting two other trucks unstuck we get out. I have since decided that I want to get dedicated mud tires and leave my Toyos for trails and rock. Here are some pictures. Keeps crashing photos as soon as I get home
. Nice work getting it out... I've dug out some really stuck snowmobiles when I lived in Oregon and I know how tough a shovel is to work with when you're sinking in the same crap you're trying to move.
