Last year I came across someone driving a lifted Jeep down a groomed trail here in Newfoundland, Canada. The jeep was leaving 1-2 foot deep ruts in the trail that made the it very dangerous until they were repaired.

 

Happens all the time in Vermont. Some trails are class 4 roads, no winter maintenance, gps sends them down the trails. Even with signs up.

 

Yes..I even know someone who thought a trail was a road and drove his truck and trailer down it.. Took many hours to back it up and get out.

 

Happens all the time in Ontario too. Last winter I came across a couple that had their Subaru SUV half off the trail. I have no idea where they were headed as it was in the middle of nowhere.

Found a stolen Cobalt years ago & a Suburban abandoned by its owner. It had been there a while buried in snow. Ownership was still in the truck. Gave it to the OPP & it hadn't been reported stolen..


Most are idgits blindly following their GPS.

 

Snowmobile trail, but not in the winter.
St. Helen, MI

 

Wow…. that guy is an ****in idiot!

 

A few years ago sledding in the UP, we ran into a stuck car between the Soo and Kinross on one of the sledding trails a few hundred feet in. When asked if we could assist, he said he had a friend coming to help and his GPS told him to drive down this trail, which clearly was marked for snowmobiles. lol

A couple weeks back, I was sledding alone and came across a truck pulling a stuck jeep on a groomed power line trail where it doubles as a ATV/UTV route in the summer. I wasn't sure if they were allowed on the trail as some clubs allow ATV/UTV's on the same trails in the winter and I mentioned that I didn't think they were allowed there. They seemed to play dumb and they were near the entrance where the forest road meets it so I didn't think much of it.

This last Thursday, we had a DNR truck coming towards us on a tight, twisty trail for an accident. We had just passed an MXZ that left the trail to kiss a tree about a mile behind us. Officer said rider was ok but was on his way to investigate.

On that same day, there was a Police SUV sitting in the middle of a popular trail, facing us with blue lights on as we came around the corner with lots of other sledders stopped around it. We thought it was a trail/reg check but turned out a sledder saw a glove on the trail, stopped, and ended up finding a crashed sled and its rider with broken legs, arms, and a metal object that was stuck in him in the woods about 20 feet from the trail. He was there since 8pm the night before. This was around 10am the next day and who knows how many other sledders went by before that. He was conscious and they life-flighted him out of there.

When riding in the forest for a few hours and not seeing civilization or other sledders, it kinda takes you by surprise when there's vehicle around the corner.
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Snowmobile trail, but not in the winter.
St. Helen, MI

A week ago in UP east of watersmeet there was a guy who decided to take the trail in his land rover, not what you would see in their commercials because he was stuck on edge of trail.

 

Kia or Hyundai have an ad here in Canada where Mr SUV owner saves the day for his buddy w/ a broken sled. Didn't even bring a trailer.

Yes most ads make it appear that Brand X SUV is a snowmobile...

 

SWIFT pretty much says it all.

" But my GPS said...."

Love to know what the recovery cost was on that job.

 

Yes every year. 3rd vehicle this year was today! Dumb people blame gps..

 

On the way up to the Porcupine Mountains overlook, road closed sign at the bottom of the hill, and a 100 yards down the trail is a Subaru with tires spinning trying to make it up the hill.

Not too far from Park View, white Jeep, perpendicular to the trail with the front buried in snow off the side of the trail. Was a little unsettling as you didn’t see it until you were right on it because it was white.

 

Happens all the time in Southern Ontario. There was just 1 last week. Delivery drivers using GPS. Seen buses also.

 

Two weeks ago running down a nice trail and noticed tire tracks but they weren't sinking because the base was solid. Came around a corner and there was a lifted truck stuck in the bush bad at this point. It about 9kms in on a snowmobile trail. Police were on seen at this point because I guess the same guy almost took out a group of sledders earlier so it had already been reported earlier. This could have been bad.

 

Cars, trucks, SUV’s, trucks pulling 4 place trailers, trucks pulling campers, FedEx truck…….

 

Came over the top of a large hill and there was a white Honda Civic slid off the side of the trail on my right, cat mostly blocking the trail. I had time to swerve around it and the three guys behind me did too. We wasted no time getting a guy at the top of the hill to stop traffic if needed while the rest of us got the owner of the car to spin the wheels in reverse while we lifted and pushed on the front. Got the car back on the trail and spun around. We followed her to the nearest road a couple miles away. Luckily we were taking it easy as we were on the last day of a week long trip or it could have been a totally different story.

 

Last week on the A trail south of Temagami. 3 asian dudes going "ice fishing". They tried to turn the truck around after they realized it wasn't a road. They did a number on the trail!

 

Wilson Lake Rd?

 

A couple of weeks ago, came across a broken tractor with a grooming skid behind. Totally blocked the normal trail. Turns out the drive shaft snapped. Easy to see and the improvised trail took us around. But then, a quarter mile on we came to the dozer taking the trail down to dirt so they could get the wrecker to the tractor. All in a day on the trail.

If it is all smooth and white, then it would get boring fairly quick.

 

I've seen trucks that were parked on the trail while hunting with their dogs. We've also seen a few vehicles that were abandoned on the trails. Here's another stuck vehicle on sled trail video

 

As a teen pulled off the road about 20 yards to pee. The jeep fell thru as I was pissing, I heard it. I dug fot hours, 4 plus hours, before a large group of snowmobile riders came through. We lifted up and on the hard pack. Got right out. Still grateful just thinking about it.

 

When I crashed my sled in Ahland WI. The locals just backed a truck down the trail. Threw it in the back and hauled it out. I gave them cash and we bought them beers. Seemed like a normal day for them.

Broke my pelvis on that one. 11 am going too fast. Just dumb.



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Sure did/have. From Amish fox and coyote hunters to a guy in a Subaru wagon, (twice last year same trail by Yuma). The guy in the Subaru was a heck of a driver that I will say...I was on his bumper a few times and he drove like Earnhardt. I see jeeps often in the woods near home, usually just destroying some nice trails. Seen all kinds of vehicles on the trail. Trucks with trailers. Dnr, police.

 

Lately big wheel mtn bikes too. At night!

 

Years ago I saw a tire track & thought WTF is a dirt bike doing on the trail. A few minutes later I catch up to the guy on a fat bike. I hope he got off the trail @ the next road crossing as it was late in the afternoon & the evening riders would've been starting to pass thru the area.

 

Happens a few times a season here in NH....”my GPS told me to go this way”

 

Three times this year! One was a pickup, another was an SUV. I don't get it.

 

Came on to one a few weeks ago, an F150 buried and tipped enough the passenger side door wouldn't have been able to open.

Nobody around so I kept riding. You could see where they had been fighting the snow for maybe 2 -3 miles. You'd think at some point, long before they went in, they'd start thinking "this just isn't right". Apparently not.

 

A high end import {wind up toy} on its roof a long way into the the trail too he had to follow the trail into a ravine I would have stopped at the top.

 

Yesterday there was a Chrysler 300 on the start of the trails. No one around anywhere. Later that day I came upon a really bad accident. Ambulance was on trails about 100yds away while emergency UTV/ATV’s were blocking trail and helping the injured guy get airlifted to the hospital (ugly scene). And the start of this season I had a few “run ins” around corners with jack-rabbits in four while drive full sized trucks ”off-roading” on the snowmobile trails that WERE NOT mixed traffic by calendar date.

HOWEVER, the more interesting vehicle I EVER passed on the trails was in 2021. This is from trail 6/7 on the west of of Houghton Lake, in Michigan. Being a retired history teacher, I LOVED this strange moment. I think it broke down, and the driver hoofed it out. There was no one around when I came upon it, but I passed it being flatbedded out at the end of that same day coming home from riding.