someone stated i have been silent, no, just been busy. i don't lurk this site but am a novice member and just thought i would post to see if there was someone who knew the area who was local and could help.
there's no point in replying to this thread b/c lessons have been learned. i called a friend and got it out 4-hours later as my other friends were out of town, so i came home and posted on this site, hoping there would be some helpful responses perhaps out of haphazard or weird luck. there's no sign on the property that states it's off-limits or illegal, just a dirt road. i learned my lesson not to ride alone and the importance of front lockers. i was merely asking for assistance. there have been some helpful responses on this thread and i appreciate it. there have also been some rather less-than-helpful responses and i really don't have find them that interesting or humorous. the two local guys who told me about this land never stated it was illegal, they said they ride it all the time, but oh well, who knew. now i know, so end of story. thanks for telling me it is illegal land on this site b/c i have no interest in returning to it and getting busted. this place is designed for motorbikes or jeeps with 40-inch wheels and 8-inces of lift, not a cherokee with 31's and 3.5 inches of lift.
i used my winch and got nowhere even after advancing it a ton, just kept getting deeper into a stench of 3-feet of mud, as there was no point of contact to winch to in the 10-11 o'clock position as there nearest tree was about a football field away. i shoveled ass-smelling mud for an hour until my back about gave out, winched it by myself three times and was up to my knees in quicksand, i put logs under tires in the mud and they sank to the point they were not visible, and still no progress, so yes i was stuck pretty bad, so please don't say that i wasn't. my rear locker did me absolutely no good b/c both were in quicksand. so yes, a front locker is next and this probably would have gotten me out.
my wife about puked from how bad i smelled when she picked me up. i hiked a half a mile coated in colon-smelling mud until she came to get me, so now i know the importance to not wheel alone. i almost gave myself some IV antibiotics when i got home b/c i thought i might get amoebic dysentery from the bacteria i must have inhaled. i have three graduate medical degrees past high school and have ridden mountain bikes competitively so please don't imply that i don't have brains/street smarts or that something on this site went over my head, b/c it didn't and there's just no point in responding to them. leave it at that b/c i am not high on myself. the moral of this story is, as others have said before, don't wheel alone. and yes, i am a dumbass for doing that but learned my lesson never to do it again. i'm new to offroading as a 44 y/o guy picking it up as a new hobby.
if you've gotten a chuckle out of this thread, then that's great! just be glad you weren't me on that day as i was more than pissed off and about doubled my water bill hosing the sh****t off my body when i got home, LOL. thanks, scott
Jeeps are great for all obstacles... Mud, Rocks, etc...