10-21-2010, 09:49 PM
Glad you made it out alright, Syn. Don't feel too bad, people get stuck out there all of the time. Now that you've done it once, you probably won't do it again. It's always a good idea to get out and walk the shoreline and check how soft it is before driving on it. We almost buried my friends rubicon a few weeks ago because we didn't check first.
I knew a guy who sank his truck sideways trying to offload a jetski. He had to be winched out, only two tires were in the mud, lol.
With the lake level dropping, it's exposing land that has been underwater for many years and it's takes quite a while for it to dry out thoroughly. It could be wet 10+ feet down.
That clay mud is real nasty. On one trip a couple years back, we were looking for some cliffs to jump, so we found a "sandy" looking spot to park the boat. I jumped off the bow to tie off and sunk in the mud to almost chest height. Had to have them pull me out with the boat. Had I been all alone, I may have died being that there was no way I would've been able to extract myself. Smelled Great! haha
That is crappy to hear that about the rangers, but I'm not surprised.
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I knew a guy who sank his truck sideways trying to offload a jetski. He had to be winched out, only two tires were in the mud, lol.
With the lake level dropping, it's exposing land that has been underwater for many years and it's takes quite a while for it to dry out thoroughly. It could be wet 10+ feet down.
That clay mud is real nasty. On one trip a couple years back, we were looking for some cliffs to jump, so we found a "sandy" looking spot to park the boat. I jumped off the bow to tie off and sunk in the mud to almost chest height. Had to have them pull me out with the boat. Had I been all alone, I may have died being that there was no way I would've been able to extract myself. Smelled Great! haha
That is crappy to hear that about the rangers, but I'm not surprised.
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