Not a weekend thing, but I was up dorking around in the snow today to see how the Baja Bosses do in it and came across some dude in a newer 4Runner stucker 'n hell. I treat the trail like I treat navigable bodies of water- everyone out there has a duty to render assistance when possible and when said assistance won't jeopardize the safety of the responding party. So, I drive over and turns out he can't get the thing in 4WD. I get out and have a peek thinking it might be a button or something (I know zero about the 4R's) he's missing. Turns out, it's a lever right next to the goddamn shifter he had his hand on. So after showing him and explaining what the different positions do, he goes, "Oh, old school!" like it's something he's familiar with. Yeah, not really, but whatevs. He was still stuck so out comes the strap and a quick tug gets 'em out of the holes he made. As I'm rolling the strap back up he asked what the rest of the trail was like and I said it gets worse, and the snow makes it about 50x more difficult than it'd be otherwise and that he probably should turn around. He declined saying that now that he's in 4WD, he's good.
I bid him fair winds and following seas, and turned around because I was not going to follow (or lead) that shitshow. This was about four hours ago and I'm willing to bet he's currently stuck about 20 yards up the trail from where I left him and is most likely in the walking-down-the-trail-to-get-help phase of hubris.
Anyone else run into bullshit like this? I see it probably three or four times a year.
And as for the tires? Damn, they really are good in the snow. I think they're my forever tire. I just hope they keep making them in this size.
. This was right before all the covid craziness. I won’t go back to the gym ever again 
