Here's my fav story lately,
I go for a leasurely cruise up Mantua towards Willard Peak a couple of weeks ago and I come upon a Ford 1/2 ton pickup in the middle of the road. I drive around it and keep on cruising up the road. The whole time I am looking for signs of life because the truck was empty. I started to get into some heavy snow and decided to turn around. As I was coming down the truck that was in the middle of the road is now sideways in the middle of the road and it's front tires are sunk in the snow. I stop and winch him out and he tells me his buddy is stuck back in the tree's.
I thought the guy just wanted me to get off the trail so he could hack me up and feed me to the coyotes or something. I couldn't see any tracks leading back there but I did get a glimpse of reverse lights back in the trees. I got a good run at it and started blasting my way back into there. I pulled up to the back of this Grand Cherokee that was sunk all the way to it's body panels. The doors were literally touching the snow!
I asked them what happened and they told me they had gone wheeling at about 12 AM and the snow had a thick layer of ice on it. They drove on top of the snow and hit a soft spot in the snow. They left the Jeep there overnight and came back the next day to get it. They tried a few different trucks and couldn't get them back there far enough to pull them out. I hooked onto a tree and hooked the winch to them and started pulling them out. The idiots were trying to reverse out and everytime they hit the gas they would sink. I told them to put it in neutral and I would pull them out in reverse. I also told them to stay in my tracks so I wasn't pulling them through the snow. Needless to say they didn't stay in the tracks and they started trying to reverse out again. They would sink themselves and then I would sink while trying to pull them out.
After a few times of winching myself out and then pulling them again I just gave up. I had told them a few times to stop reversing and just let me pull but they weren't listening to me. They finally got traction and just about backed into my Jeep while they ran over the tow strap.
I unhooked from them and said.. "this is getting too dangerous, you are close enough; get yourself the rest of the way out."
They all started pushing the guy out and he made it. I stayed just in case they couldn't make it out. I was following them down the canyon road and the guy in the Ford stopped and took his truck out of 4wd. He started going down and slid on some ice, lost control, and ended up in a snow bank. I pulled him out AGAIN and told him to lock it back into 4.
It was a fun eventful day!
what a bunch of idiots
