Note to self:
Make damn sure you know how deep the snow is before you try driving through it.
I didn't expect it to be 3 feet deep. I spent my entire lunch hour digging my Jeep out, much to the delight of my buddy John, who is helping by taking a pic of my predicament.
I never did get lunch that day LOL
Did a lot of off-road stuff when I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska. Had a K5 Blazer then. Never got around to lifting it though. Mudbogs in the summer, hillclimb at lunch and snow in the winter. Did a little when I left Alaska and went to Hampton Roads, VA but kinda got away from it when I went to Clarksville, TN. Life kinda got in the way. Work and the deployments and family mainly. Now just do the sports car thing. Offroading can get to be more $$ than my cheap sports cars. Breaking stuff.
At one time I thought it might become a passion. Then we got stuck, in the mud, and broke the truck, and had to hike out and get an off-road tow truck to pull the truck out of the mud and back to the road so we could put a new starter on. Pretty sure we paid less for the truck than we did to get it home. The passion never really came back.
mad_machine said:I am not a big fan of "mudding" it messes up the underside of the truck and ruins the trails for others to follow. It's one of the excuses they use for trail closure around here
The pictures of me are actually a National Forest down here with dedicated trails just for vehicles.
stanger_missle said:5 minutes of fun in the mud equals 5 years of E36 M3 falling in your eyes when you work on your rig.
It's true, so you might as well tear that band-aid off right away! And invest in some safety glasses!
In reply to GameboyRMH :
Yeah, I guess I'm a slow learner haha:
Pic was taken about 3 hours into my ownership. Got it nice and dirty the first day haha
pilotbraden said:
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Back in 1978 Chicago had a big snow year and I was a 15 year old working for a builder sweeping out new homes as they were being built.
One of the excavators shows up in a full size Chevrolet 4x4 with a 4” lift and 33”-34” tall tires - first time ever seeing this kind of truck. He had chains on all four tires and drives down an unplowed road with snow that was as tall as his tires. My jaw dropped not realizing this was possible.
My buddy was bitten and went on to build a 12” lifted 3/4 ton 1973 Chevrolet with 40” Ground Hawg tires. When he got stuck in the mud it was brutal.
I cannot stand "mudding" both as a concept and a term. Just saying the word makes me feel dumber. Rock crawling I find cooler and more technical. But the problem is that here in CNY there are no offroad parks, and any areas that may make cool rock-crawling territory (read Adirondack Mountains) are shoot-on-sight territory under DEC jurisdiction.
We have quite few seasonal roads and some no longer considered a road that serve as off roading a bit.
Seasonal means they are not maintained from Dec. 1 to April 1, or something.
In reply to NickD :
Join a club
theseguys are out of Rochester and know where to go. http://www.fingerlakes4x4.org/
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