What was the biggest suprise you got on a trail?

[Jim SoG]

I was on one and it led to a flat top hill in a mining area, I crep up, see ground and drive up, got about 10' in and seen that there was a HUGE HOLE (oops caps) in the ground, got out a seen I was on top of a giant hole and it was hollow under me. I slowly back the heck out....

Scarrrry...

What have you been surprised by? Good or bad.....

Jim

 

[Kevin108]

The surprise in this story was one I gave my wife:

When she and I first met, I was sort of in between 4x4s. I had an 87 Chevy pickup, but I was DDing a new Corolla. My old truck liked to chew up locking hubs and spider gears and at 8 mpg, I didn't take it far from home. I had the axles to do a 3/4-ton swap, I just hadn't put everything together yet. After dating and living together for 5 years, I sold the car and bought an XJ. It took me a year, but I finally convinced her to go wheeling with me. While we were on the trail, I asked her to marry me. It has been great!

 

[Jim SoG]

Great place to ask her...out on a trail, yes and you know you got a keeper, no and throw her back....LOL
My wife lately has become more demanding of off roading/OBin than me.....Weird role reversal.

Jim

 

[Smileyshaun]

not a actual trail but took my now fiance on her first off road experience on the Oregon back country discovery route for a week and everything went fine until I attempted to drove over a small sand dune at the beach , unknown to me was the stump on the other side of the small mound that flipped us on our side . Thankfully everybody was ok because we where going maybe 10mph. and she stuck around so that's a plus

 

[Jim SoG]

not a actual trail but took my now fiance on her first off road experience on the Oregon back country discovery route for a week and everything went fine until I attempted to drove over a small sand dune at the beach , unknown to me was the stump on the other side of the small mound that flipped us on our side . Thankfully everybody was ok because we where going maybe 10mph. and she stuck around so that's a plus View attachment 72165

Thank God nobody hurt......

 

[DarrenD]

Found this guy on the trail. Got this truck last night and rolled it first thing in the morning. I asked if he wanted help rolling it back and he said no [emoji15].

Tried explaining the longer he was rolled the worse it was... still didn’t want help. So I
left him...

 

[Smileyshaun]

Thank God nobody hurt......

that's one really good thing about sand , makes the landing softer


that log behind the jeep is what flipped us on our side , it was sitting a little lower so I diddnt see it till I was on top of the little bump and at that point I had no choice but to drive over it and when the front tire made it over fine but when it hit the back tire it was more then the suspension could handle and tipped us over . I'm actually thankful I hit it with the tire if I had hit it straight on I'm sure there would have been drivetrain damage , thankfully it just dented the door a little the damage was very minor

 

[Horse Soldier]

I found a quiet place on the Florida gulf to camp for the night and got asked did I need a date for the night, 3 mile of no one around and I but in to a hooker. The answer was no.

 

[NotGumby]

Two Italian customs agents at 3,000 meters between France and Italy on a dirt track in beautiful valley. No worries though, they were eating lunch and had no time for us.

 

[DividedSky]

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Found this guy on the trail. Got this truck last night and rolled it first thing in the morning. I asked if he wanted help rolling it back and he said no [emoji15].

Tried explaining the longer he was rolled the worse it was... still didn’t want help. So I
left him...

Trabuco?

 

[DarrenD]

Trabuco?

Yup! Coming back from a hike and there he was

 

[DarrenD]

Trabuco?

Yup!

 

[DslDad13]

Back a few years ago, my uncle and I were in his Scout on a trail on the banks of the Susquehanna river in NE Pa, went thru a tight spot of slate rock on both sides.....sliced thru all 4 tires.
Ended up walking about 10 miles till we found a small hole in the wall grocery store/bar and had to wait for a tow truck for about 5 hours....

 

[Jim SoG]

Back a few years ago, my uncle and I were in his Scout on a trail on the banks of the Susquehanna river in NE Pa, went thru a tight spot of slate rock on both sides.....sliced thru all 4 tires.
Ended up walking about 10 miles till we found a small hole in the wall grocery store/bar and had to wait for a tow truck for about 5 hours....

At least ya had drinks while you waited.......

I have sliced a tire, then the spare...I 4wd real slow to a waiting flat bead at the edge of pavement, LOVE AAA!

Jim

 

[Pyrotech]

not really trail... but while working on power restoration during a recent hurricane we ended up running into a road washed out and with severe undercutting. It was the source of much laughter and grieve given to the kid who plotted the route.

Giant truck Eating Mud holes, Sunk a 6x6 truck to the frame, took 5 of us all day to dig it out enough where it could be pulled free.

In my younger years, came to a bridge washed out by heavy rains.

Coming down the mountain on the Sea To Sky highway on the way back to Whistler for the night, Came close to hitting a grizzly in the road.

 

[ZRex]

Coming down the mountain on the Sea To Sky highway on the way back to Whistler for the night, Came close to hitting a grizzly in the road.

Also not really trail related, but I watched three cubs cross the Blue Ridge Parkway about 100 yards in front of me, then chewed holes in the seat of my bobber as I missed momma bear by no more than an arms length. Had to take a short break after that one!

Mike

 

[Fozzy325]

As an ex mountain rescue I have seen a few but for me personally was when my navigation system took me from an A road to to a B road then to a forestry trunk to a forestry supply road to an exploration track..

My Harley Davidson did not like it and. Lost so many bolts

 

[RedBeard]

So far my luck has held out pretty good, worse thing that's ever happened to me was up on Poker Flat. I was about 85% of the way to La Porte when I came to the water crossing. Not having done many I just went for it and the next thing I know, my front skid is slamming on the rocks because my driver wheel went into a hole in the river. Luckily I managed to back out of the hole, in a bit of a panic, and then we turned around and went back out the way we came in.

 

[Kevtd]

For sure my biggest surprise was taking a friend from the prairies out in the mountains (He had basically never wheeled on anything larger then a light slope nor in an actual forest) after a few hours of branches dragging along our paint and another tree across the road we decide to walk up around the corner to see if things get better and if the exposure we were on got worse. Few hundred feet up it looked like the road had collapsed into the gully completely and at the bottom maybe 100+ feet down is what looks to be an upside down Suzuki. Looked like it had been a while back but we turned around as quick as we could. I have a picture somewhere, still gives me shivers looking at it.

 

[RXV_POOR]

Pulling the shock shaft out of the shock and dropping a spring out on the same on obstacle on a test/industry run. The driver had to backup on the obstacle, I put the spring back in place and held it until tension was back on the spring. We installed the limiting straps on every test after that.