Ken, It's all good. My being Hypoglycemic and having very little to eat by hour 8-10-12-14 I was probably getting on everyones nerves
It should be me apologizing to everyone for putting up with me.
It was amazing to see everyone pitch in, help where they could and work toward getting everyone one off the trail and back to home base safe.
I think everyone learned something that day.
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Pulling the front drive shaft and two half shafts would have allowed you to continue in 2WD without doing any further damage to the front diff. Then you would have only need a strap over the obstacles.
If you're not sure what needs to be pulled off though, towing is definitely the best option.
Glad everyone made it off in one piece.
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That option wasn't even discussed by any of us. We didn't think about it, but that would have been the way to go. You can bet we'll remember that if there's another catastrophic failure on the trail.
As the day turned to night, around 7pm, and everyone realized we weren't getting off the trail for several more hours, tensions became thick. We all were edgy, tired, hungry, and running low and water.
I apologize to Fubar for being smart with him at one point.
Around 9pm, it seemed we were all resigned to the fact we weren't grilling out again and just took everything in stride.
The night stuff was really fun. Seeing the lights in the distance of so many Hummers was really cool and we all learned alot about recovery.
All in, all out. No one, and nothing left behind. Great job, Gang.
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