happy truckin new years

Well know you guys all know about my truck that i am in love with. anyway after spending the day today with a very grouchy and hung over girlfriend i met up with doug and our new roomate mark. this was supposed to be a nice tuesday evening drive in the dirt and snow. we went out to stave lake near mission and all was going well until we went into a place that we found out later is called "no mans land" because nobody goes out there (although there were tracks from other trucks). anyway so we're driving around playing and doug decided to head into a river bed that turned out to be super soft mud and sand, naturally doug sank right to the frame like a brick in water. but luckily we both have tow hooks and doug had bought a strap just in case. so we get all hooked up, im right in the river and start to pull. and we got him a little ways out but i also started to sink so we stoped. i got out and re adjusted onto some firmer ground (so i though) but now i'm at a bit of an angle. so i'm pullin away and getting nowhere fast but i can still move around a bit, eventually however after enough pulling, sure enough i sink to the frame. now we're facing away from eachother and both of us are spinnin like crazy. Better get help... there's people over on the other side of this big area so we hike in our running shoes out to the road and walk about half an hour to find these people. one of them had a Really done up Dodge dakota and another had a stock Ram. so they come out with us and sure enough just getting to where doug was the fully jacked 4x4 machine gets stuck.. now we're 3 trucks stuck and the ram is totally stock. So the ram pulls out the dakota with a few huge slamming tugs and we're set to try again. now the guy in the hug dakota wants to try and pull both trucks out at the same time.. failed. we end up having to cut the strap from the ranger to the jeep because it's too tight to take off and we can't move the trucks. after 2 huge tugs that nearly tore my tow hooks off my truck this guy gets the ranger out with minor damage. now for the jeep which is even more stuck. they attach two straps and go for a huge pull. first stap breaks. now we're down to 2 cut/broken straps and one good one. so this guy has to get a run at it so he doesn't chew the mud up and sink again. sure enough after 2-3 twenty foot runs, hammer down the jeep finally pops out of the mud and gets dragged back 40 feet onto solid land. the jeep also suffers some minor damage and needs to get checked out by a jeep tech/mechanic. lesson learned? hopefully.