Snow-crawl on steep incline--LONG

scopenutt · 2005-01-10T14:37:51+00:00

well me and the wife decided to go play in the snow so we climed alocal logging road up a nearby mountain,i got 3/4 of the way up doing good no squirelling just a fun drivethrough 3 inches of snow,im running all-terrain raidials 30X950,then we got to a steep incline and i started spinning,and sliding backwards,let in the cluthh and weeeeeee2 --360,s and no stopping, so i did what i always do i headed for theditch,,,as there wasnt any ground on the other side of the road, just asteep, sheer, downward incline, no gardrails up here,once safely in the ditch, i climed up the pasenger seat and got out.after the wife, watching her imediatly land on her butt, i was morecarefull,NOT kissed my ass also,HMMMM,,,packed, crust, with a nice powder coating, whooo weeeeee,and a 1/4 mile downward to a level area,,used the high-lift to jack my front and rear over onto the road,(i know Bill, but the bottle jack wasnt going to cut it)opened the passenger door and leaned on it to get in,and the dam jeep started sliding down the road, luckily back into theditch, and only 10 feet, thanking god for an inward crowni decided to try and drive the ditch,so down i went,(later by the way i saw i was over sideways enough for mypower-steering fluid to leak out of my tank,)i got pritty far down and hit a culvert, crap, after digging some andbacking and running hard i bounced up over,getting out after ditchin it again, i looked at my front,i now was sporting a bent leaf-spring on the drivers side,GRRRRRRRERRRdrove quite a ways down the side close to te ditch,and then once again started to slide,again ditched it, and into another culvert, this timea flat tire, and the high-lift wasnt going to get me out, i was almoston my side,it was starting to warm up some, and another rig was comming up theroad, he stopped laughed at me and helped pul me out,got around a hair-pin corner that was sporting a pluming vanoff the edge and into the sun, good road, and down we wentflat and all 5 miles an hour,stopped at...

Jan 10, 2005 61 Replies

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Matt Macchiarolo 21 years ago

Somewhat off-topic, last Wednesday there was a pileup on I-96 near Lansing MI of something on the order of 200 cars due to a thick localized fogbank. Only 2 fatalities, but lots of injuries. People should slow down when they (a) can't see the road and/or (b) can't feel the road.

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Derrick Hudson 21 years ago

That's a nice feature. Maybe someday I will demonstrate that on mine.

I'd love to see those pictures.

As for snow driving, we finally have some snow here to drive in!

-D

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