Been wanting to share this story for while but keep forgetting.
Back in March. I decided to go off-roading with a friend. She had never did it, wasn't even sure what it meant.
So around 10:00 PM on Friday night, we started driving to the place, I've been too many times. It's about 300km north where I live in Ontario.
Snow storm on the way, -20c and I didn't prepare at all. Didn't even have boots on or anything.
Finally get there. It's private trial. No one was there. We were both high, which made it fun.
About 6:30 am, we decided was time to go. Was running low on gas anyway. Filled up at closest gas station 60km away.
Driving back, I seen a sign. It said something blah blah trail. Had never seen it before. Since we had zero issues at other trail.
Decide to give it a try. I wasn't even sure if it trucks could go down it. Based on the ground snow, no one went down it for long time.
10 km in, driving really slow, everything was great. Went through water, some frozen some not fully, logs, little hills, etc... My truck barely fit.
Then all the sudden, whole truck slide right. I was doing maybe 6-7km. Then I hear a bang, and Truck is on 45 degree angle, rocking back and forth.
Snow on the passenger side was almost up to top of the window.
We get out of the driver side, which was really hard to do, cause door was heavy and closing on us, and truck was off the ground on driver side.
So I get her to 'test' how deep the snow was on that side. Took two steps and snow was over her head
By this time, it wasn't snowing anymore, only -15c and getting warmer. We tried to dig out some of the snow by hand.
About hour or so goes by, we aren't moving the truck or much snow. Skidoo comes by. A guy and teenager stops. And Guy says "You look stuck"
How did you get that big truck all the way down here ? I said it was fine until this spot. Then he tells me, the actual road is 4 feet below.
We were sitting on ice/snow build up, we were lucky it was cold for last week or so.
Then they drive away.
So I started calling some local Towing companies. All of them laughed when I told them our location. Finally found one, who was willing to come down
to our location. $2k min. wait 3-4 hours. We are waiting, hour and half go by. My friend notices something about 200 feet around corner from us.
So we go for little walk, thinking wow someone else is coming down this trail. Then we notice a Ram Truck totally covered in snow.
The guy coming to tow us out. Just buried his truck, Ram 3500. All you could see was maybe inch out the windshield.
He was so pissed, yelling/swearing. We dig out the driver door, so he could get out. He gets out and puts his wrench on few trees.
His truck got stuck worse. Then power cables on his wrench broke. Both of us finally fix it enough for wrench to work.
2 hours later, his truck is 3/4 of the way out, and blocking the path. We hear skidoo coming again.
This time, there is also 4 door side by side. Turns out there is family 15 kms down the trail staying in cabin.
Instead of waiting for the Tow guy to finish moving his Truck out of the way. They decide to go around him. Skidoo goes by easy.
Side by side, which has 4 people including a baby and dog. Sink... And get stuck.
So now we have my Truck stuck, Tow Truck stuck, and family 5 in side by side stuck. My friend and I dyeing from laughter as we were high at time.
That pissed them all off. Mother of baby started crying/whining cause we were laughing.
Took another hour to get side by side out.
2 more hours and Tow guy finally gets out. We thought for sure, he was just going leave us. He was still swearing and throwing stuff.
Now the funny part. He puts wrench on my truck and on his to tree. Starts pulling my truck out. Everything looks great.
Then..... Big Tree he had his truck connected to Snaps. Smashes the back of his Truck.
5 more hours, finally gets both trucks turned around and no longer stuck. $4k later we are both out of the trail.
That guy so was mad, he didn't even take his chains/straps/hooks. Just left them all there. Said he'd get them in the spring.
We went back last weekend to that trail. The chains were still there
Back in March. I decided to go off-roading with a friend. She had never did it, wasn't even sure what it meant.
So around 10:00 PM on Friday night, we started driving to the place, I've been too many times. It's about 300km north where I live in Ontario.
Snow storm on the way, -20c and I didn't prepare at all. Didn't even have boots on or anything.
Finally get there. It's private trial. No one was there. We were both high, which made it fun.
About 6:30 am, we decided was time to go. Was running low on gas anyway. Filled up at closest gas station 60km away.
Driving back, I seen a sign. It said something blah blah trail. Had never seen it before. Since we had zero issues at other trail.
Decide to give it a try. I wasn't even sure if it trucks could go down it. Based on the ground snow, no one went down it for long time.
10 km in, driving really slow, everything was great. Went through water, some frozen some not fully, logs, little hills, etc... My truck barely fit.
Then all the sudden, whole truck slide right. I was doing maybe 6-7km. Then I hear a bang, and Truck is on 45 degree angle, rocking back and forth.
Snow on the passenger side was almost up to top of the window.
We get out of the driver side, which was really hard to do, cause door was heavy and closing on us, and truck was off the ground on driver side.
So I get her to 'test' how deep the snow was on that side. Took two steps and snow was over her head
By this time, it wasn't snowing anymore, only -15c and getting warmer. We tried to dig out some of the snow by hand.
About hour or so goes by, we aren't moving the truck or much snow. Skidoo comes by. A guy and teenager stops. And Guy says "You look stuck"
How did you get that big truck all the way down here ? I said it was fine until this spot. Then he tells me, the actual road is 4 feet below.
We were sitting on ice/snow build up, we were lucky it was cold for last week or so.
Then they drive away.
So I started calling some local Towing companies. All of them laughed when I told them our location. Finally found one, who was willing to come down
to our location. $2k min. wait 3-4 hours. We are waiting, hour and half go by. My friend notices something about 200 feet around corner from us.
So we go for little walk, thinking wow someone else is coming down this trail. Then we notice a Ram Truck totally covered in snow.
The guy coming to tow us out. Just buried his truck, Ram 3500. All you could see was maybe inch out the windshield.
He was so pissed, yelling/swearing. We dig out the driver door, so he could get out. He gets out and puts his wrench on few trees.
His truck got stuck worse. Then power cables on his wrench broke. Both of us finally fix it enough for wrench to work.
2 hours later, his truck is 3/4 of the way out, and blocking the path. We hear skidoo coming again.
This time, there is also 4 door side by side. Turns out there is family 15 kms down the trail staying in cabin.
Instead of waiting for the Tow guy to finish moving his Truck out of the way. They decide to go around him. Skidoo goes by easy.
Side by side, which has 4 people including a baby and dog. Sink... And get stuck.
So now we have my Truck stuck, Tow Truck stuck, and family 5 in side by side stuck. My friend and I dyeing from laughter as we were high at time.
That pissed them all off. Mother of baby started crying/whining cause we were laughing.
Took another hour to get side by side out.
2 more hours and Tow guy finally gets out. We thought for sure, he was just going leave us. He was still swearing and throwing stuff.
Now the funny part. He puts wrench on my truck and on his to tree. Starts pulling my truck out. Everything looks great.
Then..... Big Tree he had his truck connected to Snaps. Smashes the back of his Truck.
5 more hours, finally gets both trucks turned around and no longer stuck. $4k later we are both out of the trail.
That guy so was mad, he didn't even take his chains/straps/hooks. Just left them all there. Said he'd get them in the spring.
We went back last weekend to that trail. The chains were still there
