Danger! Thin Ice Ahead!
Congratulations Maggot, you made it to
That Damned Dam!
Dennis (left) and Sam (right) chop away at the ice-bridge while Andrew, Dave and Khalid do their best impressions of city workers.
First attempt by Dave...
Yes! He makes it, and the crowd goes wild!
More due to the fact that while crossing, Dave went crashing through the ice and really messed it up for everyone else...
Now Khalid is a confident young man who, sometimes, over-estimates the prowess of his Bronco...
"Screw the Dam!"
"Damn!"
At least you can finally see the beaver dam in the background that caused this whole problem...
With night falling, gravity rears its ugly head and the ice bridge opens up and swallows 5000 pounds of International Scout...
An hour of pushing and pulling (and a bottle of Whiskey; always come prepared) later, Dennis was still stuck... happy (we all were, thanks to the Whiskey), but stuck.
Dave entertained himself by marvelling at the bubbles being produced by Dennis' submerged exhaust pipe (again, thanks to the Whiskey).
Using a come-a-long, some "Herc" straps and much alcohol-induced creativity, the Scout was rescued!
Andrew made it, no sweat, but it was too dark for to get a photographic record. He got stuck in the snow on the hill instead...
It's weird how it always ends up getting too dark for photos whenever we go out for "a couple of hours" for some 'wheeling. Anyway, we retraced our steps back through HELLiport Gorge and everybody made it except for Dennis' International. Stuck? Hell, no... broken steering column! Who's an Extremist now?!?