@stuckadam it’s a different story if one has a couple vehicles, one for daily driving and one for fun. Then it’s not such an issue, but over here it seems like not a lot of people can actually afford the added expense to own more than one vehicle unless they have multiple incomes in the household. I’m not sure what it’s like in Europe but on the North American continent imports are pricey as fuck; for example, new brakes and suspension cost me $5500 on my Nissan (blue book value in top condition $11,000) and if I need to replace a transmission it’s $5100 for a new one-not including shipping (6weeks) or installation. Breaking a differentials, or timing chains, or a radiator seal, all expensive ways to not have a ride OR any disposable income for a few weeks.

I’ll also add, anyone who has ever experienced intense cold knows- risk of stuff breaking increases almost exponentially for every degree below -20C. Not everyone sees those temps, granted, but my ability to make content in that is greatly reduced and not worth the financial disaster brought on by needing: $500/hr offroad recovery in the backcountry, months of storage fees while waiting for parts shipments to clear customs, labour for a mechanic to help out when they arrive, and the cost of another ride to get through while waiting.

…I wish I had one of those riding along, but it seems I live 6000 miles from anyone who’d be interested. I’d love to turn over the drivers seat to someone who just got their license and see how bad they could get us stuck. Inexperience is hot, there’s something about knowing that the driver-especially a younger one- might not know how to get themselves out of a situation that makes it that much more exciting. There was a Youtube video a few years ago by a couple of frat boy-bro types in Edmonton, AB, Canada, where they got their tricked out Subaru WRX stuck in some powdered snow in a warehouse parking lot, with summer tires on, and had no clue what they were doing, just kept burning their tires going nowhere for 15 mins.

The only problem and the difference between random city stucks and off-road stucks is that in the random city stucks there tends to be a bit more of a real-life audience. Most people will leave you alone and let you have your fun but there’s always a prude somewhere who feels it’s their mission to stop everyone from enjoying life.

Got one more session off before the bottom falls out on the temperature, -31 expected to hit on Tuesday. So I got out to one of the spots I’ve been chewing up and… well…

Last day off, little stuck in the gravel pit – 05:09
— OlGravey

2021 大浜スタック　150プラド　タンドラ – 19:06
— K's outdoor

Asian languages, no subtitles. But that Toyota Tundra going nowhere is fuckin’ HOT.

Nissan Titan passes anything but a mud pit – 15:24
— A-Team Off-Road

Kinda digging this channel. Just a bunch of dudes playing in the mud and dirt.

@spintire Thank you. A lot of it was inspired by the first few videos you did, and it’s just too much fun.

Digging out of the ditch in RWD- a Pathfinder adventure – 04:47
— OlGravey

@SD78QSK I’ve done that one myself a couple times. Favourite status goes to: A VW Golf got hooked on a windrow in front of my apartment building one time, I pretended to push for about 25 mins before they called a buddy with a truck. I fuck off back to mine and watch the show. Buddy turns up and pushes the Golf out in a couple minutes by hand.

People who live in coastal cities might know what I’m talking about here: reclaimed land. Sections of water- coastline, riverbank, etc- that have been filled in for construction, preferably before anything gets built on it. Typically there’s a layer of rock laid down on the bottom with truckloads of dirt and sand dumped and spread over top. Before it all gets packed and covered to build on, because when it’s dry the sand makes the ground really loose, and when it’s wet, even if it is solid, the dirt adds a little grease and makes maintaining traction nearly impossible.

Honourable mention to harvested out logging leases. Lots of fun in those spots

Told a hot Asian guy in my grad class (1996) that we were partying on the beach just south of town, and that at low tide the beach was solid and he could just drive on down. Didn’t tell him that the pass to the beach was a groomed (raked) sand trap, designed by the city to stop vehicles from getting onto the beach. Thankful for meatheads like that guy, he didn’t think for himself, he just trusted the perception of knowledge. On the night of the “party” he shows up and drives right into said sand trap and almost instantly buries it to the frame in 4x4. I watched with the kind of hard-on only a hypersexual 18-year-old could have. He spent 3 hours in the dark trying to shovel himself out, and had to hire heavy equipment to pull him out the next day. Every time he’d get off the frame and try to back it out he’d just bury it deeper and deeper. I must have busted a dozen times watching it.

Another time I was on lunch at work and if anyone’s ever worked at a freight depot, the one I was at housed 20 or 30 different companies, most of which have operating bases elsewhere. One of the trucking companies sent an employee from their head office that everyone knew and nobody liked, and we gamed him a little bit. The parking up close to the building was full, the lot hadn’t been scraped after a 40 cm snowfall, and the only spots left were the ones along the road, which was separated from the parking lot by a 3 foot deep drainage ditch (which thanks to the snow looked like it wasn’t there.) Nobody usually parked along that side, and I was the one that put him into that drainage ditch by telling him, when he asked where he could park, that there were 6 inch tall concrete barriers along the edge and if he just creeps up til he touches it, that’s how he’ll know he’s far enough out of the way for people to get past exiting the lot. I watched out the window as dude crept his little Mazda truck forward until the ditch caught the fronts and he slid in, and for the 15 minutes I was able to watch, he went NOWHERE. The depth of the snow kept the tires off solid ground and in the end he had to wait til everyone else left for the night so there would be enough space to get the yard rig to pull him out.

I had to chill on recording for a bit while I sorted some personal stuff. The good to come out of it all is that I’m working in my home community permanently, the bad being that I don’t have the little white GMC pickup at my disposal any more.

This Pathfinder doesn’t get stuck easily… but ice is ice.

Sunday morning spin fun – 03:56
— OlGravey

Had enough for 2 vids:

2009 Pathfinder SE stuck/spinning in snow – 05:07
— OlGravey

I’m really curious to see how the gov’ts here enact EV policy. They’ve already established that to go from the territorial border with Alberta to the Capital, about 400 km, they’re going to have to put in charge stations every 40 km or so to counter the decrease in range at -50C. Still haven’t seen any form of EV/Hybrid up here; no chargers and you can’t work on a hybrid yourself so nobody buys them.

@westfil11 the good news is that this is at my work so it’s definitely possible to get one more session in… as long as we get some rain.

Went for a drive to go smoke some weed. Backed up to the fence; ground was wet but didn’t seem sticky… until after I smoked and it was time to go. Lol oops.

I’ll have to deal with the “adult stuff” later…

Sunk it (05 GMC Sierra 1500 stuck in mud) – 03:20
— OlGravey

@barefootstuck I haven’t yet. But it’s been a little too cold for that until now

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