first time off roading
This is the story:
1, cgalpha08 and I planned meeting at badlands at 11:00 am. However, I was lost for 15 minutes, after using my phone GPS, I finally arrived there around 11:20 am.
Then we started doing off roading===>Here is the video link(cgalpha08 and me) :[video=youtube_share;cWgibQYo-XE]http://youtu.be/cWgibQYo-XE[/video]. As a beginner, I carefully followed cgalpha08 all the way. I liked mudding and climbing. When I saw the mud terrain for the first time, I thought it was impossible not to get stock, but we did go through it. I used to think that off-roading is about relaxing and just being shaken. After back to my dorm, my hands were slightly shaking when having a lunch. After for awhile, I heard a sharp noise from cgalpha08's front end. He said his front brake has a little problem maybe a tiny rock stuck in the brake system. So he decided to leave earlier to solve his brake problem so that it won't make a further problem.
Then, i was alone:wink:. I couldn't see any other HUMMER drivers. Here is another video link(only me) :[video=youtube_share;EG0Dc3S8T6k]http://youtu.be/EG0Dc3S8T6k[/video] I was stock on a rocky sand hill while trying to climb it. The whole rear axle was submerged by the sand(too bad that H2 & H3 don't have 2 rear independent suspensions). There was a tree behind me. No matter how hard I pushed the pedal or turned the front wheels, my H3 didn't move at all except spinning four wheels and sliding backward to the tree....which was terrible. The only thing I could do was getting helped by others. After 10 minutes, a group of ATVs came and checked what was going on with my h3. I dug some sand out. They cut some small branches of the tree and 4 of them pushed my car from the front end. Finally I was able to get out of the sand hole. My right mirror was flipped, and the whole right side of my H3 got a lot of scratches
gaah:I probably have to spend extra $ to get new paint and repair right side handles....) Unfortunately, I just moved backward too much that I was stuck in mud:embfrom the video you can see I drove through a pond that is behind the tree). Then, again, 2 ATVs used their winches hooking my H3's front end and pulling it out. After that I decided to return to my school. But I didn't know where was the entrance, so I just drove around with my feelings:horns: "what the....":whaa:, I went to a different way, the trail was much more difficult than the one which cgalpha showed me before. I just so nervous. more than 50% of the trail was mud, deep mud:whaa:. I was afraid of getting stock again, especially getting stock in the middle of nowhere(I think it was along the edge of the off road park, I saw a sign written "private properties, do not trespass":whaaSince then, I realized how important having partners and installing a winch can be.:corn:
Overall, the first time off roading experience is good and thrilling. I will definitely go to Badlands again.:thumbs:
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