Recovery successful! [Wheeler Pass, NV]!

Probably out drinking and eating pizza

 

Successful recovery. Updated op. Thanks for all who helped!

 

VERY NICE

 

Good deal. Thought I was going to have to lock the ol' PreRunner down in 2-high and pull someone out.

 

glad you made it home

 

Great to hear! That picture looks gnarly. The first photo you posted didn't do your situation any justice!

 

Awesome, glad to hear! In for pics of recovery.

 

Wheeler pass recovery pictures. We arrived. Truck was stuck against some trees. No winches, so we strapped to tree and used hi-lift jack to move truck away from trees. We reset and strapped from rear to the FJ to move truck rear end over. Some of these movements didn't go as planned. Truck slide further off trail and even more into the trees. Somewhere at this point driver side mirror is broken off. We get to a point where we can just let truck roll back and swing away from the trees. At this point truck is free from trees and is able to turn around. Look, truck is free, see missing mirror! On way back we run into a side by side with a coil-over problem. I don't know what happened, just that it came off. We helped them too. Got the coil over off then reset and installed again with a strap attached to keep it from doing what it did the first time. They limped back to the safety of their trucks and trailers. Last picture airing back up. S and J provided lunch to us and his buddy, I'd say it was a good day! The trail he got stuck on wasn't terrible long but boy was it fun. There was a super tight 90 degree corner with a nice inside ledge to contend with along the way up. Actually got to use my sliders for the first time on this spot. Lots of desert pin striping, not for the faint of heart. Sorry no videos, it all went so slow, nothing really exciting happened in a short amount of time.

 

cheers to a successful recovery

 

Right on!

Hopefully he found his mirror. Put that bad boy in a glass case and display it in the trophy room/garage!

 

Glad you got out.
Were you on a side trail?

 

Yes, very much so yes! Definitely not the main Wheeler Pass trail.

 

That's really cool that you went to help.

 

Good stuff! I'm glad things turned out well.

 

Thanks for all the support and reaching out on my behalf. All are life savers. I knew I could count on you guys

 

More pics.

 

well done guys!

 

well done guys, glad it went safely and really appreciate the fj and 4runner help.

 

Awesome job TW!