Okanagan;
I trust that this finds you and yours well tonight sir.
The story of your Sidekick going up the logging roads made me smile and grimace at the same time - I'll bet the pickups were Dodges like mine, weren't they?
Mine is great for turning into a first class bobsled on snow.....
Anyway the smile part of it was that a good friend took our youngest daughter and I out turkey hunting up the east side in his two door Sidekick/Tracker machine.
We're going in some goofy steep places, traversing a fair bit of snow too and since I'm sitting in the back seat with his bow and pack I'm looking around for recovery gear and not seeing any.
So I casually ask, "You don't have come along do you?"
"No" comes the reply from the driver.
"How about a shovel and a piece of rope?" I ask - now a little more concerned.
"Nope, them neither Dwayne" he says.
Now I'm full blown interested in the situation - so I inquire as politely as possible, "Just when do you make the decision that it's too steep or too much snow then?"
"Oh that's easy Dwayne" he laughs, "it's when I have to stick it in 4 wheel drive!" Then to add insult to injury sir, he shows me by popping the transfer case lever into 4WD....
Much as I love our Cummins for some things, for others like steep, snow covered ice roads it's close to not much use at all.
Oh, our eldest and I are trying to convince my wife that she needs a Tracker. We found a nice 2 door, tin top in Summerland that is really clean, but the guy wants two arms and a leg for it.
All the best to you and yours sir, good luck on your hunts and as always you all are in my daily thoughts and prayers.
Dwayne
