00106.SoloOffRoad

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stuck Sunday I decide to go up in the mountains and make sure my 22 rifle is still in good condition. Four-mile canyon on the way to Netherland, Switzerland up by bald mountain and Sugarloaf Mountain. After adjusting a loading mechanism spring, I go for his awesome drive down by mineshafts st08 and st14. See, The easy part is going down, and thinking you will end up on another road down to your starting point. In reality, I round a bend before the mine, and note that there is no visible road farther along. I of course go to the end after getting this far. A mining cabin, some equipment, some old shacks and pumps and wood. WOOD! In the realization that I did not have the car to get back up, but I did have the mind to. I grab some of the more sturdy and useful length pieces. Major hill 1: by st14, momentum carries me up. Major hill 2: just uphill of the split to the cabin- the boards help my tired from burning grubber and give me enough friction to move until I can move the boards back into use. No need worry of clearance except one spot, bare left bank of the road. The Third hill was killer. Not only could I not get up, but I slid my rear into the side of the mountain on the way back down and my front nearly off the cliff. After much physical and mental deliberation I end up moving my car centimeter at a time, while it is in reverse will the boards. But I am not on driving on the boards, or even in my car. The larger piece of wood is under my engine and off the cliff, the smaller is under the uphill portion of my car at the back tire and my jack is jacking up the front tire at the lower end of the hill. By levering the car off the front tire with the jack, pulling the engine up and letting it back down, the pulling the back side of the car while pushing it downhill I am able to straighten the car out enough to roll it down the hill, turn it around and do it all in reverse. See, my Saturn is front wheel drive. No problem, a couple of rocks to avoid centering my car. Turn onto hill 4. Hill 4 is short, but the worst ground clearance. Well placed boards and I am up without bottoming my car. The last hill, hill 5, is the biggest. I get most of the way up and burn rubber on the rocks and sand. No going anywhere, with or with out boards. Some hikers tried to help and I ended up riding back with a Suzuki that we spent a good hour trying to get past the same spot I was stuck on. With people’s placed weight, pushing, and placing of rocks we are up and I get home, with my car in the mountains. The people that dried me back were nice and impressed in my little Saturn, or rather in my driving skills to get it to do that.
now what David said he would help. Rafael said he would try, but Alex and I ended up going to the mountains in the dark tonight. His kia and a towrope. Only got stuck in one spot, where I was earlier. The boards freed us and I was out. There was a ledge we had to four-wheel, that is, after we checked out the mines. My car is caked in mud; the license plate on the front is on my passenger seat. Sometimes you just need to get away and have fun. Sunday with strangers, or Tuesday night with a friend on new trails before you pull a car up a sand and bolder, good 35 degree incline. My car is a 1994 saturn sl4.
the mines st08, by the old cabin. The mine was no reinforce and smelled bad. Pyrite gold was in veins everywhere, it seemed like there were gasses sitting in there making the lungs hurt, and the water held to many bugs and was stale from rust off the rails for the push train. St14 was a bigger mine, but did not seem as safe. Lumber reinforced fallen rock and was itself broken in many places. Electric lighting led the path(didn’t work of course) and we didn’t get far. By theniswas9-30 at night and time to head back.

Exam tomorrow, forget the schwk that is due… off to bed!
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