Floydargue
New guy
- Location
- Salt Lake City
I will get some pics posted soon. If any of you guys have some you'd like to share, please put them here.
We met up as planned at about 10am, and headed up. No big news on the way up. Things started getting snowy as we went up. There were some tracks in the snow already, so things kept chugging along OK. While I was stopped waiting for people to bunch up a little, someone came walking down from ahead of us. He said he was up the trail a bit and was stuck. It was fortunate for him we were so close, as he was anticipating a long walk down to find some assistance. He was in a scout and was only about a foot off the tracks on the trail, but it had sunk down hard and was very stuck.
I was up front in our group and have a winch, so I thought it would be simple. Not so much, as when I pulled him back, we could not get his rear tires to come back to the tracks. It was just plowing into the deep stuff more. So we could not pull him back, he could not move forward at all, and there was by far not room to make a pass. Some of the guys did some shoveling to make paths for his tires, but it was not getting us far. We ended up strapping to a few trees in his 2 o'clock, and putting my winch cable on a pulley in front of him. I was amazed how hard it was having to pull to get him to move, but it was working. The tree was uphill from him, and when I let the winch tension off, I noticed it had been lifting that corner up a couple inches. Woohoo!
The guys dug more snow out of his way and filled in holes where they could, and we had him make several attempts to get some momentum going to gon onward, but it would repeatedly slip into the deep sides no matter what we did. So we went for option B - everyone back up to wherever we can flip around. There was a pretty good spot maybe 300 feet or so (maybe a little more?) behind the back vehicle so we all turned on the reverse lights and got it done without issue. After getting back out of the snow, the call was made to continue down, play at the main "bowl" for a few minutes and head out.
The wind was pretty chilly, but the sun was out, and it seemed everyone had a good time. There was some good puckering going on as well at that one turn that leans like heck toward the edge.
We met up as planned at about 10am, and headed up. No big news on the way up. Things started getting snowy as we went up. There were some tracks in the snow already, so things kept chugging along OK. While I was stopped waiting for people to bunch up a little, someone came walking down from ahead of us. He said he was up the trail a bit and was stuck. It was fortunate for him we were so close, as he was anticipating a long walk down to find some assistance. He was in a scout and was only about a foot off the tracks on the trail, but it had sunk down hard and was very stuck.
I was up front in our group and have a winch, so I thought it would be simple. Not so much, as when I pulled him back, we could not get his rear tires to come back to the tracks. It was just plowing into the deep stuff more. So we could not pull him back, he could not move forward at all, and there was by far not room to make a pass. Some of the guys did some shoveling to make paths for his tires, but it was not getting us far. We ended up strapping to a few trees in his 2 o'clock, and putting my winch cable on a pulley in front of him. I was amazed how hard it was having to pull to get him to move, but it was working. The tree was uphill from him, and when I let the winch tension off, I noticed it had been lifting that corner up a couple inches. Woohoo!
The guys dug more snow out of his way and filled in holes where they could, and we had him make several attempts to get some momentum going to gon onward, but it would repeatedly slip into the deep sides no matter what we did. So we went for option B - everyone back up to wherever we can flip around. There was a pretty good spot maybe 300 feet or so (maybe a little more?) behind the back vehicle so we all turned on the reverse lights and got it done without issue. After getting back out of the snow, the call was made to continue down, play at the main "bowl" for a few minutes and head out.
The wind was pretty chilly, but the sun was out, and it seemed everyone had a good time. There was some good puckering going on as well at that one turn that leans like heck toward the edge.
