Lurvis33
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- Luke
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- Lewisville, TX
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So, avid watchers will recall the last time I went Jeeping here, there was a certain hill that gave me some trouble. Well, today, same hill, but now the ground was wet and loose (hold it together, @Billy). Gabrielle does not have KO2s, (I am seriously reevaluating this). I could not get any traction on this hill to save my life. Mark even walked down and rode shotgun to help me pick a good line.
Ski slopes such as this one have ditches or gullies cut across them so that snowmelt and runoff have channels to flow in, rather than washing out the slope. We use these ditches to our advantage - they occur regularly up the slope, and offer a great place to reverse back down to, reevaluate your lines, and try the hill again. Your goal going up this hill (25 degrees or more in places) is to make it from one ditch to the next. I got my front wheels in the ditch (good), but my rear wheels couldn't push me over the top of the ditch because of the loose ground. So, I decided, with Mark temporarily riding shotgun, to try to ride the ridge of this ditch towards better traction, in a grown-over meadow on the mountainside.
There was a hole. We didn't see the hole.
Gabrielle found herself without any ground under her front passenger or her rear driver wheel. I was in the classic teeter-totter situation. On a hill. Pitched 28 degrees nose-up, and rolled 16 degrees to the driver side. Gabrielle is gently rocking back and forth, she eventually settles with the front passenger tire about 12-15 inches off the ground. Any attempts to wiggle out of it increased the sideways roll. As a reminder, "losing it" here means tumbling down a ski slope. Mark slowly slides out (wasn't sure how much his weight was helping me). I soil myself, he runs up to get Eve and the winch, and Alex takes a bunch of pictures. Winch on to get all four wheels back on the ground, and a little extra tugging to get me up the hill.
We all laughed at the end, but not an experience I'd like to repeat anytime soon.
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