Mighty Blog

Adventure Log – by Tom the Adventurer

I was hoping that my beefy “Rut Buster” tires would keep me gliding along the muddy adventure trails, but I guess some mud holes have other plans. Slippin’ and sliding I could feel my ATV sinking lower into the soft terrain as my wheels began gripping in and spinning up a rooster tail of loose dirt. Soon it became official . . . I was stuck.

Here is where riding with a buddy can be a real life saver. I kindly asked Ken to jump on the horn and see if he couldn’t get our fellow adventurer Megan on the walkie-talkie and drum up some help, and as luck would have it she was nearby gathering plant samples.

Like a magical genie she hopped out of the cab with her flashing camera and said with a big smile “Here I am! What are your other two wishes?” as she clicked away pictures of me covered in mud. “I was hoping to get out of there today” I said gunning the throttle to show her how stuck I was.

After doing some mechanical work to get the winch motor in shape, Ken and I secured it once again to the truck and hooked up the cable to the ATV. “Why don’t we switch places” said Megan as she hopped on the ATV and dropped it down into first gear. Ken grabbed a shovel out of the back of the truck and started to dig around the tires. FINALLY we started to get some traction and the once stuck ATV crawled it’s way out of the mud and back to camp.