one day me and my buddys decided to go out on the local logging trails and do some mudding and too the amazment of the two jeep guys the avalanche was keeping up with them no problem only one that wasnt keeping up was the for sport trak 
then we found a spot another guy was telling us about and decided to give it a shot the two jeep guys got stuck on their first pass through so me wanting to show what the avalanche could do i hit it hard made it through then decided to show them up even more and come back the way i came just about made it but got hung up and got hung up on the ruts of the guy that was there the day before with 39" tires 
so then hooked up one truck and he could even budge me so we figured more trucks would do it and all we managed to do was break 4 tow straps and broke off one of my tow hooks so we called in another jeep with a 8,500lb winch started to winch and moved about 2 feet and then all of a sudden from the front of the jeep the winch started to smoke we figure he striped the gears in the winch and burned it up so he limped home and we call in a bigger truck and i think the video explains some of what happened while they were there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnjyQgeEnoY
then after the video we hooked on the back and they were really giving it all that black truck had to get me out and while doing that the one tow strap broke and the clevis shot through me tailgate and left a big hole we then called in a f350 with a 10,000lb winch and doubled up the winch lines and pulled me out
so total for this day of mudding:
1 hole in the tailgate
2 broken tow hooks
6 snapped tow straps
14 hours of sitting in the mud and water
1 burned up winch
$100 to get winched out the second time
and 2 very impressed jeep owners
so all and all after all the things broke i was even more proud of being an avalanche owner
also cant seem to get the photos to upload
then we found a spot another guy was telling us about and decided to give it a shot the two jeep guys got stuck on their first pass through so me wanting to show what the avalanche could do i hit it hard made it through then decided to show them up even more and come back the way i came just about made it but got hung up and got hung up on the ruts of the guy that was there the day before with 39" tires so then hooked up one truck and he could even budge me so we figured more trucks would do it and all we managed to do was break 4 tow straps and broke off one of my tow hooks so we called in another jeep with a 8,500lb winch started to winch and moved about 2 feet and then all of a sudden from the front of the jeep the winch started to smoke we figure he striped the gears in the winch and burned it up so he limped home and we call in a bigger truck and i think the video explains some of what happened while they were there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnjyQgeEnoY
then after the video we hooked on the back and they were really giving it all that black truck had to get me out and while doing that the one tow strap broke and the clevis shot through me tailgate and left a big hole we then called in a f350 with a 10,000lb winch and doubled up the winch lines and pulled me out
so total for this day of mudding:
1 hole in the tailgate
2 broken tow hooks
6 snapped tow straps
14 hours of sitting in the mud and water
1 burned up winch
$100 to get winched out the second time
and 2 very impressed jeep owners
so all and all after all the things broke i was even more proud of being an avalanche owner
also cant seem to get the photos to upload
