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by davidbanham
681 days ago
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Recovering a car from a remote area can be a big job. Not only do you need a vehicle capable of getting into and out of the spot where the first car got stuck, it might need to do so while also carrying the first car. Dragging the first car to where you can get it on to the recovery vehicle can cause significant damage to the trail. Repairing that can be a big job when you can't just drive a tip truck full of sand/gravel/rocks to the spot. It's not at all outlandish for the consequences of a stuck Subaru to pretty quickly run to "We need to contract a high lift capacity helicopter for a few days to fly in a half tonne of gravel and a repair crew". And then there's the fact that to some degree, you're endangering the people who need to come get you. |
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This is especially true because the same kind of people who will drive somewhere out of their league are more likely to also be doing so in bad conditions with inadequate preparation so the rescue team might be rushing at night, in adverse weather, etc. A couple of people I knew who went hiking or mountain biking in the BLM land east of San Diego had stories about sharing food and water with people who’d only packed driving treats and forgot that SUVs can get stuck pretty easily no matter what the ads showed.