red/green hawk
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- Ryan
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- Albuquerque, NM
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- 2020 JT Sport S with max tow package, 2008 Suburban LTZ
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I have a Smittybilt 9500 XRC on a Tactic Stubby bumper. Took my boys up to the Jemez Mts to go fishing on the Rio Puerco for some native Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout. Usually go the back route around to the north but decided to take a shortcut on this road my GPS called Moon Valley Ranch Road. Which I've been on before going down. It is totally a Jeep trail.
It was fine for about a mile until we ran into snow. I got out and it looked fairly shallow. Little did I know there was about a 6" crust that had no issues holding my 200 lbs. But underneath was knee deep snow.
Tried Hi-lift jacking each wheel up and put logs underneath for traction.
Just chewed the wood up. Only option was to winch my self forward through about 300+ft of deeper snow to a spot that had no snow. Had to go back and forth between different trees on opposite sides of the road until I got there. Then had to turn around and go in the same track to get stuck again and repeat the process of winching out. The whole plan hinged on about a 100 ft. pull latched onto a tree no smaller around than a 500 mL water bottle through thigh high snow. I was sweating it none the least. It was EPIC!!!
My helper.
After driving back through mud.
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