Funny Adventure from today

[Gcckoka]

So here's today's adventure, my father left in the city and I was left alone here in the mountains and of course I took the opportunity and took out the snowmobile , wanted to visit one place deep in the woods , a beautiful place and no one goes there in the winter, my snowmobile is not made for powder , it is a road snowmobile, plus all of this not experienced driver and we have momentarely stuck snowmobile right away But still after all of this I went up that deep snow and big uphill , it's not far from the house but it's very steep and deep snow , I stopped enjoyed the outdoors had a cup of tea and now was the time to go back , so I had to turn around the snowmobile , turned on the right side and went front to turn , it was a field and that was the only place to turn , there was no place to turn by reverse only way was to tilt the snowmobile and turn that way , after 5 meters in the deep snow because I am not so experienced I got stuck , darn it , I had to clear out the snowmobile from all of the snow with foot and hands , it was weist deep snow and Im 1.92 meters in height I took the back side out almost broke my back (I have back problems) started the engine and could take it out any way , I repeated the process 3 times , after 3rd attempt I gave up and just accelerated more and got stuck even deeper then I just gave up and called the emergency service , told them what was wrong and thay said they would call , so I waited 5 minutes and heres the call (plus the darn Iphone 4 just froze and turned off thank God I had the good old Black and wight Nokia ) they are asking me if they can come with a car I said there was no way of that and what does the ******* answer ??? Well there's nothing we can do about it call a friend with a sled to help you , I told him that he was a D**k that he was leaving a guy just like this in the woods to die....... plus it was 4pm and I had only 2 hours left until dark and until the wolfs come out (we have a lot of wolfs) so I left the sled and went back home by foot in weist deep snow for 1 km and then on regular snowy road for 2km , I came home had a tea and called everyone I knew and everyone who I thought would knew someone with a sled but no luck either they were in the city or they sold the sled or some other stuff and there was only one who is a friends friend that is a total badass on snowmobiles but he was on a tour , I took my shotgun , took a shovel and walked back up , I was dying I was so tired and began to just dig with the showel and Im in a condition that Im already thinking mad I will have to wait for summer so that snow melts and stuff what will I tell my father ? and then the telephone rang , it was that guy , he was back from the tour and I told him what was wrong and he came out right away , he was here in 15 minutes and here's what we did we took out the back side from the snow he started the engine tilted the sled , just like I was doing but on more angle and came out in 5 seconds , I was amazed , after a big thank you and a promise of one good restaurant we went back home , I came in now and I thank God that he always takes care of me , I am very thankful for this !!! What's the lesson learned , don't do stupid **** , always have a buddy with you , never jump higher than you can. But than again that stupid **** is so fun and gives you good memories and experience , just do whatever you want in the end when you get home , you'll forget all the pain and sweat and will only remember it as a good , fun story.
The end
Thanks for reading my story wrighten with my broken English

 

[Allans865]

Good story mate 😀🖒

 

[Leshy]

Hahahah. Lesson learned Nick👍

Having good friends like that is worth more than gold , hey?
Cool story 👍

 

[Toddy]

So long as you're home safe and whole, and you've learned from it all, it was a good day

Good story too though and it sounds like you have good friends as well !

No bad thing to owe a favour/thank you to someone as capable as that fellow seems to be. Can you maybe spend some time with him and learn more about using the snowmobile safely ?

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Klenchblaize]

Hell, the membership of this site is so damn polite!

You should have had second cup of tea and stayed at home with the shotgun. Calling the "Emergency Services" when you so clearly knew you could walk out of difficulty does not strike me as a good idea but perhaps I'm missing something?

Glad you're OK though.

K

 

[Gcckoka]

Thanks guys , yeah it was a great adventure but thanks to a great guy it ended good
I always end up in such stupid situations , just like when I went hunting solo with Max and took the shortcut which my father told me not to take , ended up with a broken car in the middle of nowhere

 

[Nomad64]

Hell, the membership of this site is so damn polite!

You should have had second cup of tea and stayed at home with the shotgun. Calling the "Emergency Services" when you so clearly knew you could walk out of difficulty does not strike me as a good idea but perhaps I'm missing something?

Glad you're OK though.

K

Agreed and it's a shame because the OP has been showing much greater maturity in his recent posts and videos and displayed some skills and a lifestyle I am deeply enviously of.

Unless something got lost in translation, this a bit like someone going greenlaning in a Ford Focus, getting stuck a mile from a road then calling Mountain Rescue and (this is the unforgivable bit) abusing them when they declined to get the RAF to send a Chinook when getting a mate with a 4x4 to tow you, was all that was needed.

For the benefit of the OP, perhaps "emergency services" are different where you are but as you are posting on a UK forum, be aware that if you get into difficulties in the (limited) wilderness areas or extensive seas we have here, the rescue if needed will probably be handled by dedicated and often courageous volunteers in the local Mountain Rescue or RNLI (lifeboat - see link to Penlee lifeboat disaster below).

These teams have an almost sacred place in the affections of outdoorsmen/women and mariners and have to manage finite resources to prioritise genuine "emergencies" from cases where someone is mildly inconvenienced.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penlee_lifeboat_disaster

Please learn the lessons of your latest adventure, stay safe and pray that if you are ever in a real life or death emergency, and your call is answered by the guy you called a "D**k" he deals with your call professionally and doesn't dismiss you as the "boy who called wolf".

 

[Leshy]

Unless of course the OP means the RAC or the AA type of service .. as "emergency services" .
Emergency vehicle recovery services Nick?

Which I'm guessing is what's going on there...

But I maybe wrong.

 

[Toddy]

That's how I read it too….like calling Autonational Rescue 'cos the car won't start.
I never gave it a thought that it might be the Mountain Rescue folks.

M

 

[johntarmac]

Considering the 'emergency services' wouldn't come out because they couldn't get there in a car I doubt it's an organisation like Mountain Rescue.

Sounds more like the local tow truck who didn't want to leave his cup of tea.

 

[Gcckoka]

I know what you guys are talking about , that rescue team is very different from our emergency services , it's not even officially emergency service , those teams are located in the capital and big cities they have the same number to call but , after you call them , they call someone in your local area and those local services are d**ks they are lazy to get their asses of the chair , I'm not talking only about this time , I have seen people in need of them earlier many times.... their mission here is very simple to help cars stuck on ice or open locks when doors are locked and keys are lost and simple things like that , the good guys are in the city about 40km from me , those are the life savers.
They are being payed for nothing , mostly they sit on one place and then I call them and they were lazy to walk 1km by foot to help me , should emergency services be telling you to call friends for help ?? I think no.

 

[Nomad64]

I think we have a different idea of the difference between an "emergency" (particularly one in which someone could die in) and a simple vehicle recovery situation.

In the UK, if my 4x4 breaks down on the road, I would expect the AA, RAC, Green Flag or whichever company I pay for roadside recovery (the clue is in the name), to send someone to fix or tow it. If I get it stuck off-road on a forestry track, farmers field or off-road "pay and play" site, I would expect them to refer me to the terms of my cover and recommend that I "find a friendly local farmer" or that they could hire a specialist recovery vehicle but I would have to pay for it.

Life away from cities and towns means being more self reliant - you can't expect some official agency to come and sort things out when you get into difficulties. Mobile phones are great but lead to a false sense of security, even in the UK, coverage is patchy outside big towns and cities and can be non-existent in the wilder areas.

From earlier posts, it seems that you want to be a bushcraft instructor, If you are going off into the wilds (or indeed anywhere away from immediate assistance), either on your own or with anyone you are responsible for, you should be constantly thinking ahead and evaluating the risks and how to manage them. If you had had a real emergency and were lying trapped under a snowmobile with a broken leg and broken phone - how long before you would have been missed and did anyone know where you were?

Apologies if this sounds preachy but I've spent a lot of time in places where you really are on your own and can't rely on outside assistance and have also been involved in two situations where emergency services have successfully evacuated casualties by helicopter from genuinely life threatening situations (a "bent" diver and a hill walker suffering a stroke), I have nothing but respect and admiration for mountain rescue and RNLI volunteers and RAF professionals. Even the coordinators at vehicle recovery services do a difficult job and don't deserve to be abused while doing it by people who didn't read the "small print".

When I was your age, I did lots of dumb things (and quite a few things that I thought were smart at the time and now cringe at the memory), but fortunately the records of those events only exist in the few grainy photos and increasingly confused memories of those who may or may not have been there at the time.

You have the benefit of the internet age and can use this forum and others to communicate and share ideas with people around the world. The downside is that you are doing your growing up in public and leaving an indelible record on the internet which could be embarrassing in 5 or 10 years time if you follow your dream of becoming the Georgian Ray Mears (other, slimmer bushcraft practitioners are available), so maybe apply a "what would Ray think" filter when posting and just post the good stuff and leave the drunken knife throwing, snowmobile screw ups and rows with recovery companies stories for round the campfire with your mates.

Stay safe and keep the videos coming.

I know what you guys are talking about , that rescue team is very different from our emergency services , it's not even officially emergency service , those teams are located in the capital and big cities they have the same number to call but , after you call them , they call someone in your local area and those local services are d**ks they are lazy to get their asses of the chair , I'm not talking only about this time , I have seen people in need of them earlier many times.... their mission here is very simple to help cars stuck on ice or open locks when doors are locked and keys are lost and simple things like that , the good guys are in the city about 40km from me , those are the life savers.
They are being payed for nothing , mostly they sit on one place and then I call them and they were lazy to walk 1km by foot to help me , should emergency services be telling you to call friends for help ?? I think no.

 

[Gcckoka]

I think we have a different idea of what an "emergency" (particularly one in which someone could die in) and a simple vehicle recovery situation.

In the UK, if my 4x4 breaks down on the road, I would expect the AA, RAC, Green Flag or whichever company I pay for roadside recovery (the clue is in the name), to send someone to fix or tow it. If I get it stuck off-road on a forestry track, farmers field or off-road "pay and play" site, I would expect them to refer me to the terms of my cover and recommend that I "find a friendly local farmer" or that they could hire a specialist recovery vehicle but I would have to pay for it.

Life away from cities and towns means being more self reliant - you can't expect some official agency to come and sort things out when you get into difficulties. Mobile phones are great but lead to a false sense of security, even in the UK, coverage is patchy outside big towns and cities and can be non-existent in the wilder areas.

From earlier posts, it seems that you want to be a bushcraft instructor, If you are going off into the wilds (or indeed anywhere away from immediate assistance), either on your own or with anyone you are responsible for, you should be constantly thinking ahead and evaluating the risks and how to manage them. If you had had a real emergency and were lying trapped under a snowmobile with a broken leg and broken phone - how long before you would have been missed and did anyone know where you were?

Apologies if this sounds preachy but I've spent a lot of time in places where you really are on your own and can't rely on outside assistance and have also been involved in two situations where emergency services have successfully evacuated casualties by helicopter from genuinely life threatening situations (a "bent" diver and a hill walker suffering a stroke), I have nothing but respect and admiration for mountain rescue and RNLI volunteers and RAF professionals. Even the coordinators at vehicle recovery services do a difficult job and don't deserve to be abused by people who didn't read the "small print" while doing it.

When I was your age, I did lots of dumb things (and quite a few things that I thought were smart at the time and now cringe at the memory), but fortunately the records of those events only exist in the few grainy photos and increasingly confused memories of those who may or may not have been there at the time.

You have the benefit of the internet age and can use this forum and others to communicate and share ideas with people around the world. The downside is that you are doing your growing up in public and leaving an indelible record on the internet which could be embarrassing in 5 or 10 years time if you follow your dream of becoming the Georgian Ray Mears (other, slimmer bushcraft practitioners are available), so maybe apply a "what would Ray think" filter when posting and just post the good stuff and leave the drunken knife throwing, snowmobile screw ups and rows with recovery companies stories for round the campfire with your mates.

Stay safe and keep the videos coming.

Thanks for your advice !

 

[Janne]

Gc, I am happy the situation got resolved and that you are safe.

We all make stupid misstakes, specially when we were young, nothing to be ashamed of!
You learned a lot from this: never to use inappropriate equipment. To have the skills needed and never put yourself in a situation when you have to rely on outside help.

Edit: and never rely on tech.