So took the Turtle to the mountains yesterday, amazing day, very little snow. Went down a road that is not plowed or maintained in the winter and it was mostly clear to the pavement. Came to a point that it was REALLY icey and the road started to go downhill so I decided to turn around. I know better from years of off road driving BUT did the turn and had to back up to finish the turn and my rear tires ran up on some ice. With the tilt of the road and the ice I was stuck BIG TIME!!!! Funny how you get use to driving something and when you are in another vehicle you forget. I was thinking in the back of my head of all the front wheel drive units that I have so I made sure the front wheels stayed on the dry part - WRONG!!!!!! That was a BIG learning experience. Really missed my old 4x4 truck and camper as a pull of the lever and I would have been out. But I have also gotten the 4x4 stuck in a similar situation soooo.
Managed to get myself moving again after about ten minutes of saying but it has been years since I made such a rookie mistake!!!
I think part of the issue is also how light my van is. So I need to go out and find a couple bags of sand for the weight and also for traction if I need it. I also have to remember it is rear wheel drive!
The good part is that it was early in the day so if I could not get unstuck I am sure someone would have come along and seeing I was blocking the entire road they would have had to help to get past
