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We had a late start today, very late, left Kanab at 10:35am. It was a bumpy drive down House Rock Valley Road and it was especially bad south of State line. Big machines were working the burn areas, the road was the worst we have ever seen it. We continued uphill in 4WDR to Paw Hole TR. First half was fine, but the Jeep was spinning wheels a few times on the second half, we arrived fine at the TH. Parked the Jeep, ate a quick lunch, locked up the car and we were about to hike away when we heard: : do you have a shovel?
A Montana couple had just arrived in town, Googled “White pocket” and off they went via Paw Hole to White Pocket, but they got stuck just uphill in the well known Paw Hole sand trap. We walked up and saw not 1 but 2 cars uphill from the TH. The Broncos Sport, single Oregon girl, had second thoughts and was safely parked off to the side in a more hard packed area, while she hiked into the Paw Hole area. The other car was high centered uphill, ouch…. They had been digging with hands, etc. and tried to back out, but they were buried pretty good.
So, how often haven’t we seen on Matt’s recovery, that they can just push the car out? Worth a try, but no movement, just spinning wheels. So we decided to drive the Jeep uphill, but keep some distance from the worst deep sand and winch them out. Here are the photos:
Since that looked hard, I put the phone down and helped out too
What the heck….. the Jeep got winched forward, their car was so heavy and it sure wasn’t moving. So I had to get in the Jeep and keep a foot on the brake. My proud Lizzy moment, ha….
That worked, Rick winched them out and then they could back out.
Driving back down to the Paw Hole TH (notice the sign to the left…)
“But it only said recommended “…… You have now been warned with this story
Though several of you have successfully driven this uphill. I shall not mention any names such as , @Nick and @Cool Danish
That set us back about 1/2 hr, but we were happy to help! We asked them to pay it forward
A Montana couple had just arrived in town, Googled “White pocket” and off they went via Paw Hole to White Pocket, but they got stuck just uphill in the well known Paw Hole sand trap. We walked up and saw not 1 but 2 cars uphill from the TH. The Broncos Sport, single Oregon girl, had second thoughts and was safely parked off to the side in a more hard packed area, while she hiked into the Paw Hole area. The other car was high centered uphill, ouch…. They had been digging with hands, etc. and tried to back out, but they were buried pretty good.
So, how often haven’t we seen on Matt’s recovery, that they can just push the car out? Worth a try, but no movement, just spinning wheels. So we decided to drive the Jeep uphill, but keep some distance from the worst deep sand and winch them out. Here are the photos:
Since that looked hard, I put the phone down and helped out too
What the heck….. the Jeep got winched forward, their car was so heavy and it sure wasn’t moving. So I had to get in the Jeep and keep a foot on the brake. My proud Lizzy moment, ha….
That worked, Rick winched them out and then they could back out.
Driving back down to the Paw Hole TH (notice the sign to the left…)
“But it only said recommended “…… You have now been warned with this story
Though several of you have successfully driven this uphill. I shall not mention any names such as , @Nick and @Cool Danish
That set us back about 1/2 hr, but we were happy to help! We asked them to pay it forward
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