Nicolet NF/Bear Lake - June 12-14 **PICS pg. 5**

tan's2002kjlimited · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:50 pm

Very nice! Wish I could have gone. What was it? About 650 miles r/t?

oddball · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:56 pm

Could you have been pulled out backwards? I don't mean to beat a dead horse here, but this situation has me wondering what if Rob or anyone else for that matter with a winch would not have been there? :shock:

callaway · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:59 pm

oddball wrote:

Could you have been pulled out backwards? I don't mean to beat a dead horse here, but this situation has me wondering what if Rob or anyone else for that matter with a winch would not have been there? :shock:

I probably could have driven up and used a normal strap ( my MT's made short work of the muck - Jayme had issues thanks to the ATs ) but I didn't want to risk getting stuck myself trying to reverse with a load in muck which could have lead to my tires spinning and me just sitting there.

That was a terrible sentence...

As Jayme also said, I tried to pass her on the left, but the lay of the land and ruts had me starting to slide towards her vehicle - I backed out of that situation.

Could I have pulled her with a strap only - yes, but I didn't want to chance getting myself stuck. Bet chance of recovery ( in our case ) was winching. What you don't see in the pictures is there's a curve about 5 feet behind my vehicle - we could have hooked a few straps together, but there would have been no room for me to back up.

On a second try Jayme took a different line further left and made it through no problems

callaway · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:37 pm

tan's2002kjlimited wrote:

Very nice! Wish I could have gone. What was it? About 650 miles r/t?

it was prob close to an 1100 - 1200 mile weekend

jeepfrog · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:24 pm

Great pictures everyone! Would love to make it up there sometime - the trails look similar to the kinds we were on in Manistee, MI.

Thanks for sharing!

callaway · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:38 pm

yellocoyote wrote:

callaway wrote:

tan's2002kjlimited wrote:

Very nice! Wish I could have gone. What was it? About 650 miles r/t?

it was prob close to an 1100 - 1200 mile weekend

That includes the round trip up north of Watersmeet, MI for the lights, yes?

also driving back and forth between camp and town multiple times as well as getting lost on the way home

ihatemybike · **Posted:** Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:30 am

yellocoyote wrote:

When should we all go back?

After Grumpy's AWD is fixed and recovery points added.

callaway · **Posted:** Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:13 am

yellocoyote wrote:

So...

When should we all go back?

I vote fall - that'd be an even prettier area as the trees are changing colors

callaway · **Posted:** Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:16 am

Sounds good as of now - going to add it to the calendar to make it 'official' and lock in the date ?

callaway · **Posted:** Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:28 am

last weekend in sept?

ihatemybike · **Posted:** Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:55 am

That could work, gives us two weeks to recover before heading to East Coast Safari.

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