I had a jeep adventure today, I'm back in my hotel room and have showered and I'm laying on my bed, but I'm still a bit keyed up from it all even though all is well. there was a few moments where things could have been hmmmm, not good and it would have been a long night. One of the gold prospecting clubs I belong to has a claim near Auburn in the historic forest hill mining area of the N. California Sierra Nevada. The canyons are unbelievably steep (western states trail shares some of the road leading to the road to the claim) and the trail down to the river must have been cut by a dozer operator high on crack and tranquilizer because I can't imagine doing that cut any other way. The drive down was always tough but the winter before last tore everything up so much dozens of down trees and washouts have made the drive down to the river impossible, everything is also overgrown so you only have a 3 foot narrow path to navigate through is spots. For the last 6 months there was also a 4x4 truck stuck halfway, the forrest service just hauled it out with a small dozer, they sort of fixed the washouts but it's very narrow. The road if you want to call it that is rocky, rough, loose, steep (I walked the 3.5 mile stretch once, took 3 hours and two short naps in the middle of the road) and sharply cambered to the slope of the hill, it's narrow and the sides a pretty much straight down (almost). I was driving back up from the river out of the claim, about 1/3 of the way out when... not sure exactly what happened but the jeep must have scooted to the right a little and the right side of the jeep instantly slid off the edge, I immediately stopped, I've been in this kind of spot on trails before and any movement would send my jeep further to the right and rolling down the canyon. I grabbed the winch cable and went looking for a big tree further up the road on the uphill side. I found a good anchor but the back of the jeep still wanted to slide down hill and now the left rear tire is starting to lift a bit. I also carry a portable 4K winch and battery pack so I grabbed it and hooked the back of the jeep to another tree to the rear, unfortunately the first and second trees I connected to the rear bumper ripped from the hillside I did manage to pull the back of the jeep a couple inches, but the rear tire is now a good 4 inches in the air, I'm miles out (alone) and not sure if I'm gonna get this or not. I grab another strap and claw my way up the bank to a nice fat tree anchor and with the remaining power in the portable pack also using a snatch block to get more pull out of the little winch pull the back of the jeep another couple of inches and more importantly the left rear tire is being held to earth by my small winch. Now, with great effort I climb up and fall down into my jeep as it's perched precariously on the edge at an uncomfortable angle winching from the front winch now and luckily my rear anchor held pulling the jeep sideways at an angle back up onto the road again. All this took a couple of hours, several times I considered taking pictures, but needed to just focus on pulling myself out and keep on goal, this was to close a call, but everything worked as planned, so good day... fun adventure. Sorry no pics.