Ocotillo Wells 4/22-4/24

Actually Dave, he called me on a Saturday night needing extraction he was already stuck so I can't say what mode he was in before disappearing into the muck...

 

Thanks Doug! I hope we Tacomas spend more time pulling out Jeeps than we do other Tacomas!

 

Ah well , any given driver in any given vehicle can get stuck on any given trail & blaa,blaa,blaa, you've been wheeling a long time , you know how it goes....

 

Pretty sad? Dude you can bash on 2wd, Sports, 4wd, or freaking Unimogs whatever, they all wheel with us the same. We get it you have like 9 traction modes. Meh, I'll leave this one alone.

Driver fail, yeah, should have watched the right mirror more, but I was driving over a flattened fence where the trail goes over now.

1) Situation dictates, usually I'm in 4wd hi or low depending...I like low range if I'm solo as I like to go slow, 6MT and less clutch work.

2) Trust me I tried a few combos after I fell in...however I was freaking stuck, when my pass rear dropped into it (was in reverse) it sucked me in and there was a huge log in front of the driver front, took a bit of work before I attempted to drive out. I had traction going forward, but the passenger front was blocked by something. Later Doug said there is like a 1-2ft lip you gotta get over.

3) See 2

4) See 2...I used the Locker, put stuff under the drivers side tires, but I wasnt going anywhere.

5) Yes I air down...18 psi. When I have OBA I'll start pushing it down towards 12psi.

6) High centered yes, black hole of mud that turned to clay when the water got displaced...and extended mine and the Dogs day til like midnight.

Got that right Doug. Yeah no alphabet soup was gonna free me. Doug did a good job of freeing the truck. He knew the front wouldn't work cause there is little lip you gotta get over.

It's the outer loop of Corral Canyon. A tree fell a bit ago back in like October I think, so there are two paths now, the original road, where I was or thru the grass which has been rutted pretty bad. I was backing out cause there was big bog ahead, and didn't want to chance it. So I was backing up and all is fine then I started my turn a sec early and dropped the pass rear tire and there you go, stuck.

For Doug to get in front of me he had to drive over my front drivers tire.

First, Doug came to my rescue. I've hit the Loop and TDS many many occasions and never an issue, this time yeah, got stuck. I didn't even come in the way Doug came thru 4 corners, I went up past Bobcat Camp area. Coming back the short route was freaking sketch on this one downhill mud rutted to hell section. Was shocked Doug made it up, said it took 3 goes.

Dude do you have that crap on a hot key or something? We get it. Those who have it use, those who don't wheel all the same.

FWIW most of the Pre-Runners hit this route with us all the time with out issue. Think once or twice we had to assist them up a rock section on the TDS. Forget though, we haven't done a CC run in a bit.

 

I must have an off road bug in my bed somewhere; damn thing must be biting me every night too cuz I'm always ready again the next morning!!!

As for my traction modes, I have "P"

 

Yeah, we call it P-trac....