Here's on the way back across the deep stuff
The snow crystals were pretty cool down there.
This is in Broad Canyon, it doesn't look like it but the snow is over a foot deep under us at this point. Just behind bob is a hill that I almost didn't make it up, I still wasn't making it down to the dirt
Shortly after that, the snow went from holding me up and smooth sailing to soft and you are screwed. When it first stopped me I was able to back out of it, but I decided to try again and that was the end of it. Luckily there were trees, which marks the first time I have ever been stuck somewhere were I could actually use the winch (that is
after it was on the truck, cuz there were plenty of times while it was sitting on the ground at home).
I had to winch myself in a circle, the snow/pulling was hard enough that I stalled the 8274 out about 4 times
I had to keep backing it off and useing the front tires to dig the snow out by spinning them and turning them back and forth.
This is as close as I have to a picture of that stuck, it's bob getting out to laugh at me
Good times
I got turned around and then bob quickly turned around in my tracks.
It was getting dark so we hurried down to see if we could sink through a muddy field or get buried in some stealth snow drift on the road over to Topliff.
The mud had mostly frozen (whew) but we did find many stealth snow drifts, they were the kind that level off dug in roads
We made it to the buildings without too much trouble, bob checked those out and we drove over into the maze of roads in Faust, stopping many times to bs until we were forzen then continuing on. The last stop was supposed to yield some coyote howls but we came up dry
We headed home on the back roads through Eagle Mountain, I hit a puddle which coated my windshield instantly with ice so we stopped to let the defrost work... at which time we got "pulled over" by a county sheriff
He didn't bother to turn his lights on, just got out and inquired to what the hell we were doing, and asked if we were ok
Nice guy, he asked me if I knew my reg was expired, I said yes... he said ok and left :greg:
