Absolutely hilarious
Some of them were probably not funny while living
Them .
You can’t make this sht up
Not even a mention of Mosquito Pass with the 3 whacked out dudes with guns, meth, brown liquor and Oreos?bergsteigen wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 12:24 pm I’ve had a few flat tires. Always a joy to come back from a hike or a backpack to find one of those. Oklahoma group and Sand Creek come to mind, plus one fantastic blow out in Alaska just as I parked it! Thankfully I carry a regular floor jack and impact driver to make the process quite easy, especially with Tacoma clearance.
I took my Tacoma waaaay off grid in Alaska to hike Mt Prindell for the solstice. I crossed this river without checking it out first, so I didn’t notice a couple of large boulders on the driver side. I drove over the first one, but the splash down on the other side stalled the truck with a plume of water vapor! I couldn’t go forward, so I had to put it in reverse. But the mud flap was against the Boulder, so I couldn’t get any traction. So I had to gun it and power rip off the mud flap, then do a high angle tippy reverse to get out of the River. Next day on the hike, I found that the road ended in a quarter mile. Not bad for ~100 miles outside of Fairbanks and hours from cell service! Learned a fairly critical lesson - always scope the stream crossings first!
The 3.6R Subi is a battery whore and it constantly dies. I now have to keep it on a trickle charger if I don’t drive it for a few days. I have a battery jumper, but sometimes the battery dies the big death, and won’t work. Probably need to get something more powerful. Even my AGM battery that I got in March dies frequently. Battery died once at a gas station, when I just turned on the aux to roll down the window. By then, the battery jump routine was frequent and often. The dealer claimed there wasn’t anything wrong with the battery. Finally after 2 years they agreed and replaced it on warranty, even though that had already ended. Thank goodness for documentation of my frequent complaints.
I think it was 2 years ago when my front brakes finally went out on my ‘02 Tacoma while driving home from near Indy Pass. Lasted 16 years since it’s a stick and I don’t tend to use the brakes much on it. So driving home wasn’t a big deal, I just had to keep a bigger following distance to allow for downshifting.
Back when I first started hiking 14ers, I had a pathetic 2WD Tacoma and managed to get it stuck at the American Basin TH on wet grass on a slight incline. Zero traction. Back then, there wasn’t much traffic up there, so I got lucky that a Texan in a rental keep showed up and helped me by pushing the truck off the grass so I could drive out.
Had forgotten about that one!EatinHardtack wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 4:42 pm Not even a mention of Mosquito Pass with the 3 whacked out dudes with guns, meth, brown liquor and Oreos?
You took your Supra on a dirt road? In winter?supranihilest wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 3:37 pm I camped overnight near treeline in Missouri Gulch in January once. I was too tired the next morning to climb anything, so after wasting all that time and effort I packed up and went back to the trailhead, where I discovered I'd left the dome light on in my car, which killed the battery. Nothing like having to hike out on the road in the cold to get cell service. After hiking a few miles some folks did drive by and picked me up and took me to Leadville, where I called my insurance. Jumping the car didn't work, I had really killed it good, so I needed a tow. My insurance would pay for the I think 148 mile tow to Golden, which was my Honda dealership of choice (since it was within 150 miles specified in the policy, even though technically Colorado Springs was closer; I lived in Boulder at the time), but wouldn't pay for the "offroad" fee to the trailhead. This "offroad" section started something like 4 miles off US 24, and the entire road is 2WD dirt. It's exactly the same quality from the highway all the way to the trailhead. So they'd pay for 144 miles of paved road and 4 miles of dirt road, but not 3.5 miles of dirt road. Those 3.5 miles of dirt cost me something like $350 in towing fees.
TL;DR I hate insurance companies and tow companies.
Pretty sure that’s Latin and not a car reference.Will_E wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 9:10 pmYou took your Supra on a dirt road? In winter?supranihilest wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 3:37 pm I camped overnight near treeline in Missouri Gulch in January once. I was too tired the next morning to climb anything, so after wasting all that time and effort I packed up and went back to the trailhead, where I discovered I'd left the dome light on in my car, which killed the battery. Nothing like having to hike out on the road in the cold to get cell service. After hiking a few miles some folks did drive by and picked me up and took me to Leadville, where I called my insurance. Jumping the car didn't work, I had really killed it good, so I needed a tow. My insurance would pay for the I think 148 mile tow to Golden, which was my Honda dealership of choice (since it was within 150 miles specified in the policy, even though technically Colorado Springs was closer; I lived in Boulder at the time), but wouldn't pay for the "offroad" fee to the trailhead. This "offroad" section started something like 4 miles off US 24, and the entire road is 2WD dirt. It's exactly the same quality from the highway all the way to the trailhead. So they'd pay for 144 miles of paved road and 4 miles of dirt road, but not 3.5 miles of dirt road. Those 3.5 miles of dirt cost me something like $350 in towing fees.
TL;DR I hate insurance companies and tow companies.![]()
This is the one I have and it works great.