Deathcricket
12-26-2008, 11:29 AM
So anyways, my relatives come out to visit for christmas and it's raining up a storm. I suggest I take my cousins out for a little muddy fun. I know a couple great spots out here in STG. I actually had went the day before and knew the area quite well, so never mind that it's 9PM and pitch black dark, snowing, slushy rain. "It will be fun!" I dare say. So we get about a mile or 2 out just before the "good stuff" and I'm going around a corner and hit a patch of this grey looking clay. It's slick as snot and I start start drifting off the road. You can see the it's a pretty decent slant in the pic "climbing up". Crap I keep sliding down the hill towards this 6 foot ravine. No problem I'll just back up and we can go another way. Crap, I cant get back on the road, and each time I try to go forwards or backwards, my progress sliding down the hill accelerates.
So after trying both forwards and backwards a couple times. I decide to give up before I fall of the edge. Clay dries out pretty quick and I'll just come back when it's not raining and get er out. So we walk just under 2 miles to get back home in the rain and mud in the middle of the night. With me apologizing the whole way and feeling like a dumbass, hehe.
The very next day at the crack of noon. I call my dad and cousin to help me out. My dads truck can't get out to the spot. It's a chevy silverado but made for hauling his toys around, not driving through a couple inches of mud. We get pretty close though and walk the rest of the way with shovels in hand. It's still pretty muddy, but in the day light we can see this patch of slick gray mud is only about 20-30 feet long. And if I can get even one tire on that red clay I'll be able to get out. If not, I'll have to wait another day for it to dry out more. So we try the forwards and backwards a couple times with no luck. This stiff is totally slippery and our shoes are covered with it. We eventually decide that backwards is the only way I will get out. It's a lot easier to see this in the day time btw. But my truck doesnt have enough clearance to get over the small ravine. My bumper keeps hitting this bush out the way out. And my exhaust is generating impressive smoke when hitting this bush too, hehe.
So we bust out the shovels and fill in the ravine with dirt rocks and the bush. I felt bad killing a bush, but would have felt worse calling some expensive tow truck company to rescue me. We get the ravine filled in and I'm able to back out. YAY! I go back the way we came and call it a christmas eve day.
So anyways, super embarrassing getting stuck in the mud. When I tell people I get stuck they always ask how many inches of mud and laugh when I tell them "maybe 2 or 3" but it really was more being trapped and falling in the ravine, hehe. Not so much getting stuck I guess.
Anyways, thought it was funny and would share my embarassment with ya guys.
So after trying both forwards and backwards a couple times. I decide to give up before I fall of the edge. Clay dries out pretty quick and I'll just come back when it's not raining and get er out. So we walk just under 2 miles to get back home in the rain and mud in the middle of the night. With me apologizing the whole way and feeling like a dumbass, hehe.
The very next day at the crack of noon. I call my dad and cousin to help me out. My dads truck can't get out to the spot. It's a chevy silverado but made for hauling his toys around, not driving through a couple inches of mud. We get pretty close though and walk the rest of the way with shovels in hand. It's still pretty muddy, but in the day light we can see this patch of slick gray mud is only about 20-30 feet long. And if I can get even one tire on that red clay I'll be able to get out. If not, I'll have to wait another day for it to dry out more. So we try the forwards and backwards a couple times with no luck. This stiff is totally slippery and our shoes are covered with it. We eventually decide that backwards is the only way I will get out. It's a lot easier to see this in the day time btw. But my truck doesnt have enough clearance to get over the small ravine. My bumper keeps hitting this bush out the way out. And my exhaust is generating impressive smoke when hitting this bush too, hehe.
So we bust out the shovels and fill in the ravine with dirt rocks and the bush. I felt bad killing a bush, but would have felt worse calling some expensive tow truck company to rescue me. We get the ravine filled in and I'm able to back out. YAY! I go back the way we came and call it a christmas eve day.
So anyways, super embarrassing getting stuck in the mud. When I tell people I get stuck they always ask how many inches of mud and laugh when I tell them "maybe 2 or 3" but it really was more being trapped and falling in the ravine, hehe. Not so much getting stuck I guess.
Anyways, thought it was funny and would share my embarassment with ya guys.