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Little vid of today’s adventure, breaking through the ice pack at the parking area at the top of the ramp down onto the ice road across the Liard River.
I ♥️Spring Meltoff – 04:33
— OlGravey
I finally fixed my data issue and should be good to post a vid or two a month now, depending on the adventures. In about a month, I pick up my new ride; my mom gifted me a just-barely-broken in 2009 Nissan Pathfinder SE. I’m really looking forward to seeing what I have to do to get that one stuck 
@thommo me too…. Though I’m more excited for the new ride. Nissan Pathfinder, 2009, motor just barely broken in. Finally getting into a 4x4, which might lead to a couple real good stucks since I can go places I can’t with the truck
@barefootcarstuck Where I am, the nearest town with a public wash bay is 450 km east so it’s dirty all the time. 
@rauhbein1 no outside help getting out, but I did have to shovel out underneath. When I first backed in and sunk it, the spare tire caught on the ice and that’s what kept me stuck, it hooked me in. I didn’t get hard this time, mostly because the old guy who runs the loader on my airfield was watching. But I did get that little bit of moisture down there 
In about 6 weeks I’m flying back to my hometown to pick up a 4x4 that my mom is gifting to me. I reckon THAT’ll be a good time.
@westfil11 coming soon lol
I live far enough north that a brutal winter shouldn’t be a surprise but -40 to -50C just isn’t fun. Especially thirteen solid weeks of it. The ice is actually sticky, and a camera battery lasts an average of 15 seconds before powering down. So any kind of fun had to wait.
We’re finally above zero Celsius and it it glorious.
I’m also back at my wifi for a couple weeks now too.
Yay Spring!!! – 04:08
— OlGravey
@hardstuck I’ll add the missing detail here and then pass it back to you to think about. Here in the arctic, we’re at temperatures below -45 degrees celsius and have been for a week. That’s seasonal for this place through December, January and February. It is deadly cold right now and whether the company ride is a piece of shit or not, I’m the guy missing a big toe on my left foot, have an artificial lens in the right eye, and a pound and a half of steel plates and screws fusing my left elbow together.
I appreciate that everyone likes what I do, and that content is in demand. It feels good to be wanted. You know what doesn’t feel good? Freezing to death in the pursuit of entertaining strangers. As the the company truck won’t even start with a blown computer, that leaves me with only my own truck to work with and if I blow that up, then I’m out of a vehicle for the remainder of my rotation here and have no way to get home when I’m finally done my 14 weeks. I’ve been home with my partner for a grand total of 26 days since July, and right now, making sure nothing stops me from getting home in 5 weeks is my priority. Everything else is unimportant.
@sd78qsk They knew it wasn’t exactly sound, apparently, and just didn’t tell me. So it’s just one of those things. I told them that the electrical system was glitching out well before the computer shit the bed so I think they were prepared for something to actually happen.
Well, that didn’t go as planned. The first time I took it out to the other gravel pit the computer in the damn thing blew, had to get it towed back into town. Now that it’s 40 below, there probably isn’t gonna be a lot of action until it warms up a bit. Getting stuck in and having to walk 20 miles back in -45C…. That’s a big nope.
The job set me up with a company vehicle. 2002 GMC Sierra 1500 RWD single cab. It doesn’t get stuck easily because they put KO2’s on it but when those tires break traction, what a sweet, sweet sound. FullSizeRender.mov
Not gonna lie…. The only shitty part about my new gig is that they are just now, at present, installing the infrastructure for high speed internet. Canadian cell data plans are absolute shit for what we pay, so for now, I’ll only be able to post up whatever fun I’ve had when I get to come home to Fort Simpson.
I found this gravel pit. Previewed it in my last post in the adult content section. Well, the explicit adult content was left out of this edit, but I’m sure most’ll get al least a little damp watching.
Smith Falls Gravel Pit – 05:14
— OlGravey
@sd78qsk My other failure this day was forgetting to delete the 6GB worth of deleted items from the folder on the phone I use as a camera and having only two minutes out of an hour and a half of doing everything I could think of to try to get stuck. Dropped the fronts into the holes I dug in this video and forward or backward, from both sides, just churned right out of it. Turning sharp made some pretty good donuts, but even braking hard in the middle of the donut, turning the other way, and hammering on it, just pulled right out. I even made it up a 30 degree incline without bogging in. 
some guys have all the luck, I guess…
Fort Smith was a little rough on the old Ford. I broke both sway bar links on a series of craters on the way into one of the mud pits. Raw deal… ordered the parts, and waited 2 weeks. THEN the day those got fixed I took a couple big screws in one of my back tires, which basically ended my exploring off road as one of them went through a previous patch job. Got the new tires, then waited 2 weeks for an install appointment. So now I have these winter street tires, albeit with really good treads- good enough that getting stuck in is going to be a little challenging.
All that deep mud here with all the rain over the weekend, some places up to the hubs deep, and they just power on through. Dug some deep holes in this sand pit, but between not actually being stuck, and the elders who showed up just as I was starting to get deep in, asking what I was doing and if I needed help, it just didn’t go to plan, and wasn’t very arousing. 
Ah well.
Just playing around in the Martin River sand pit – 02:26
— OlGravey
@spin-172581 lol close. It was mud from trying to dig a rut to be able to get free- during the 25 minutes the camera didn’t catch. stupid tech… lol
sigh I was actually no-move stuck for about 20 minutes but the camera shut off on me as soon as I walked away from it. But I did manage to get some video that was useable, and I’ll be hittting THAT spot every time it rains from now til I go home.
Enjoy, boys. I did
Found some mud – 03:40
— OlGravey
