So I took my mom and sister out for a wheel today. :D
We went out to where I (and anybody else who has a quad/dirtbike) used to go quadding all the time. Muskeg fields mixed with sand with pine trees on it.
The pic may make me look like a goof because they are almost of me stuck, (thats when your stopped and have time to dig out the camera!) But, we covered alot of ground, and hit alot of different trails and had a great afternoon. The muskeg is nasty for getting stuck.
The massive ME VS. THE PUDDLE shakedown at the end was awesome, cause not only did I win, but Bronco got good and muddy, and my mom learned what it was to go mudding!
My mom!! >

Hole number one for the day. It really did not look like my tire was going to sink that deep. But there it is, having a muskeg bath.

Here is my trusty, not at all dusty, WINCHY. Winchy is removing me from hole #1. Having a good strong winch has made offroading about 10 times more fun! As long as the cab is not going to get turned into a frog pond and the engine air intake stays mostly dry, lol, I am game to throttle it into lots of different challenges/obstacles/holes. Damage is part of the fun that I'm prepared to accept, as long as the doors still close (and open??) and it can still limp home, it's all good. Even if it can't limp home, it can be retrieved and repaired.

On to hole #2, it was this cool banked corner, apparently I wasn't going fast enough because I slid down into the slop.

My sister had to climb out the window, couldn't get the door open. And there is me, digging out the extra winching cables, I had to wrangle 3 little wimpy larch trees to get enough pull.

Somewhere there you can see a little bit of my rear diff, but where is the rear passenger tire??? It's buried, thats where. And there is a nice pic of some muskeg covered radius arms.

Once we got out of the muskeg fields we got to cruise some sand and hills.

Sorry about the super-extra-cheesy line. I'm a goof.

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Here is me using this pile of railroad ties as a ramp to catch massive air. hehe

Here is me, tauting a train, he wimped out, Bronco is too tuff.

So, as mentioned eirlier, there was a EPIC BATTLE with a very muddy puddle. This video is too long,(4:44) don't watch it unless you have high speed. The steam is just puddle blood on my exhaust. I know I was able to back out, but I didn't want it to end like that. The puddle would have won. I wanted to drive through, to the other side of the puddle. I do make it through in the end. Hi 5
Also, for how poorly my SuperSwamperRadials performed in the sand and muskeg earlier that day, they earned their keep in the mud!
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I get a kick out of how the underwater exhaust sounds. hehe. Like a scuba dog, wooofwooofwooofwoofwoofwoooof

If you can still move, then keep moving!!! I only get the winch out when I can't move at all.
Here is some after shots.

Good thing the Hula Girl is clean!! She's my ship's figurehead.

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NEW TRIP
November, on Remeberance Day weekend I went for a wheel and my friend with the Toyota came for a ride along in Bronco, and he brought his little brother. We picked up some clay pigeons and shot skeet once we found a nice place midday.

There was a nastynasty patch of tree branches, I choose to drive through it backwards, so-as not to damage my steering components. But I got hung up anyways.

And a stick had to prove how tough it was and rip of my mud flap.

Shortly after the lunch fire pit a snow filled storm system blew over.

As we were log crawling and finding our way down the cutline I "adjusted" my winch on a tree. Oops. Dosn't hamper it's performance, but, now it's bent. :(
(I have since bent it back)

We were a good ways in the bush and then there was a funny (or not-funny) noise after crawling a particularly large log. Look what we found.

So, I put her' in 2WD and had to make it back like in high range and 2WD. It was a good challenge, I had alot of fun, had to hit the logs alot faster to get over them, heavy on the throttle!! I was very proud that I made it back without having to use the winch. This just guarantees that I have to swap in the Dana35 this winter, something I planned on anyways, it just got moved up on the priority list.
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Later that afternoon we found another good spot for shooting off the rest of the clay pigeons. 100 spent shells and 120 spent pigeons for the day, it was fun.

Here is my pal the Toyota Pilot shooting, you maybea can't see it, but he nails this clay pigeon.

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