Originally posted by B Slater:
A couple of observations:
1. You have stock tires, they suck in the snow.
Those are BFG ATs.
Originally posted by B Slater:
2. It looks like your passenger side is really stuck deep.
Yeap, it was about knee deep. However, if I had some significant torque on that side of the vehicle I think I could have climbed out. I had actually used the snowboard to shovel out a lot of the snow on the passenger side. I had good contact with solid packed snow/ground on the passenger side and wasn't leaning against the snow bank very hard at all. I was deep, yes, but I had good traction on that side.
Originally posted by B Slater:
I best most 4x4's with no lockers off the lot would have been stuck. Most 4x4's are only 2x4's. I don't even know if the locker would have helped that much.
Its a bummer, but don't let that one instance jade you forever!
Most 4x4s are only 2x4s? What do you mean??? 0_o
-edit to avoid double post-
Here's the depth of the hole I was in:
And here's a video where I was starting to dig out while the girl was pick'n on me =D
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1774011591749814165 The snow is between at the middle of the back rim and top of the front rim and just starting up the bumper in the front... Still looks to me like I should have been able to back out the way I went in.
"run it off a cliff" is another story entirely...
BTW - I do feel pretty dumb for getting stuck to begin with. I should know better than to go driving off into snow when I know nothing about what's under it. I just assumed it was like everywhere else I'd been that day... but apparently it was a deep drainage ditch along the road. :-/
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