I've got a hill story too. Headed into camp you could just drive up the camp road through the trees but for a bit more scenic trip you could break left just before going into the trees. Travel a little along the headland of the field and turn right, pass through a small stand of spruce and into another field which you could cross and catch back onto the camp road. The trip through the spruce stand is a pretty steep hill made worse by the 90 degree right turn. To avoid the turn you could drive out into the field but the transition from field to headland is a helluva bump so you can't carry much speed. In May 2013 we took a trip to camp where it rained 7 days out of 9. On day 7 the ladies went shopping in town and called the men out for lunch. On our return dad was with me in the Ranger and Angie was driving my mom's Jeep. Angie and my mom were getting nervous of the deepening ruts in the soggy camp road so they decided to go through the field. Dad and I paused to watch and we saw the Jeep go up through the trees and then come back down the hill again with the brakes locked.
I decided we ought to make a try, the Ranger has a limited slip rear diff and is better offroad than my mom's stock Jeep Liberty. We went out into the field and I opted to carry much more speed than was sensible. Angie swears we caught a little air when we hit the bump at the end of the field and I kept hard on the throttle up through the spruces. We made it but only just, I knew the Jeep had no chance. With the windows down we could hear the Jeep but they never showed, then things got quiet. We walked back down to where Angie had slid the Jeep sideways into a spruce tree. Fortunately nothing was broken and I was able to back it down the hill and go up the camp road. On day 9 when we left to go home the road had gotten so soft we watched the Jeep drag badly as we followed along behind. We knew that this was definitely out last trip out. That summer we had a guy come in with a dozer. He smoothed the ruts out and cut some drainage which should help. We've owned the camp since 2003 so having it repaired once every 10 years isn't so bad. -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
