Stucks and mishaps on some four wheel drive trips I've taken...

Welcome to the page of things that we discuss around the campfire, you know those things other than the ongoing discussion of "automatic vs manual transmission on the trail." What I'm talking about is four-wheel drive trip stucks, near-misses and boo-boos, all of which I'm a master at. You know the feeling, where "Murphy's Law" prevails, in the land of four wheeling! You have to admit that I have a lot of nerve, or ego (more realistically, stupidity,) to bare all of this information to the audience of the world wide web! Hey, it's part of four wheeling!

	Our Blue Moon Trail run, at Hi Desert Roundup, 2005, is cut short by a flat tire.		Watch out for deadly rabbits in Mazourka Canyon, or you may wind up in the ditch. If you swerve for them, you lose.
	This stuck was bad one, as I came close to meeeting my Maker, in the Inyo National Forest.		Does a Suzuki Samurai's engine really need an oil cap? Can you drive it without one? I make the ultimate test.
	Have you ever been driving on the freeway and had your rear window shot out? It's not a lot of fun!		My friend Rob and I were railfanning Tehachapi when the right rear shock broke... and... and... and...
	Pure stupidity on my part resulted in this stuck in Nevada's Wild Horse Resevoir.		What do you do after church? Go out and get stuck in a giant truck-eating mudhole!
	Ham Radio's premire event, Field Day, results in a stuck in Alipne County in June, of 1999.		Stuck at Peckinpah Meadows, in the Sierra National Forest, due to an undermined trail and a lot of bad luck.
	Not really four wheeling, but a memorable stuck at Lake McClure, Mariposa County, way back in February of 1972.		My first stuck in April, 1969, driving the family car, a 1965 Volkswagen bus. My Dad never found out about it!

OK, so you don't believe that a well-equipped 4WD truck can get stuck? Well, seeing is believing. It seems the better equipped your truck is, the better you get stuck! I know, as I've been four-wheeling for over 30 years, and I have seen my share of stucks.

What I consider a "stuck" is to be where you either have to winch yourself out (thank goodness I have a winch on the front of my truck) or to get one of your buddies to "jerk" you out with your tow strap, that hopefully, you carry. A boo-boo is where something breaks, but you're not necessarily stuck. Or, if it really isn't your day, you could have a combination of both! Yes, it's happened to me more times than I care to think about.

My major regret after all of these years is that I didn't have a camera and lots of film handy to record all of these traumatic events. I do have some photos, so check out this page and enjoy. And, by the way, don't get stuck on your next four wheel drive trip!

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