So, heres what happened, more or less.
I got stuck, then we winched. Then Eric got stuck, so we winched some more. Went on quest to the bottom of the skag pit, then more winching. Winch had a moment and wouldn't power out, so we had a team building exercise. Jacking and shoveling then jacking some more to get the shovel back after the initial jacking. Winch became happier, snatch block came out. Cobbles was extracted from skag. Had a small pop and no drive to one front tire while on previously mentioned quest to the bottom, so that took some jiggery pokery. After great success poking and jiggering all was well. Hub wasnt fully engaged, wack of grease had migrated into it. Putting a set of oem hubs on my neverending list of stuff to acquire. I got around behind to Eric's be-hind then we winched some more. That didn't work. So I watched Eric and Byron work, then it did work. This all took quite a while, unfrozen skag made the rest of the trail a no go at this time. So we get back to the road, help out a beached side by side. Stand around a bit more, and that was that.
Great day, times were had, goo was flung. Didn't freeze camping so that was also success.
On the drive home I went full Max and hucked a steer tire into the ditch, (hangs head in shame) something I have never previously experienced. Rears yes, in my younger days, never a front. Oopsy. Surprisingly anticlimatic, which was good. New John did also good work fetching said tire from said deep, deep ditch. Sketchy ass roadside-snowyhill-hilifting commenced. Lug nuts were secured from my stash of bits and away we went. This was not exactly success but could have been much worse. Another nice sunny day though. All in all, the usual wheeling based adventures must go on, and so they shall.
