| I sure was! | | | | I was stuck in all sorts of ruts! |
| I was in Tahoe last week as four BIG storms | | | | Why was I so resistant to those darned hubs? It |
| brought over ten feet of snow. It was slick as a | | | | takes 30 seconds and makes it easy to go anywhere |
| gut, drifted so deep in places that even Thelma (my | | | | I want to go. There were lots of folks who would |
| F-250 turbo diesel truck) had a hard time getting | | | | have loved the chance to drive safely in all that |
| through. After they plowed the roads, it was still a | | | | snow. They were parked in snow drifts or halfway |
| mess with melting, freezing and lotsa black ice. | | | | to the top of a hill. They'd get out to switch their |
| I skied every day. To get to the hill in the morning - I | | | | hubs I bet! Yet I'd have done anything to stay in that |
| had to constantly change Thelma between 4-Wheel | | | | truck and drive - instead of crawling in/out to lock |
| Drive High and Low. It took 4WD Low (with my | | | | unlock those hubs. |
| wheel hubs locked) to get moving in my driveway | | | | I'm thinking it was the lack of control. Getting stuck |
| and down my side street. Once I hit the bigger | | | | in that snow in my 6-ton hauling pick-em-up truck |
| street, I had to get out, unlock the wheel hubs and | | | | made me feel so powerless. I'd get out and lock |
| shift to regular 4WD. But then it would start to | | | | those hubs, then get back in and have this sick |
| snow and accumulate. I'd hit a thick spot and have to | | | | feeling as I started forward again - waiting to slide |
| pull over so I could lock the hubs again for 4WD | | | | backwards because sometimes even 4WD LOW |
| LOW to get by. Or I'd get into the parking lot and | | | | didn't work. |
| get stuck - and have to change those hubs. | | | | Most of the time with those hubs locked - I was |
| I'd never had to do this before! After a few days, I | | | | going anywhere I wanted. But it was only most of |
| got frustrated. By day five I was gunning it to get | | | | the time. I had to have four guys push me out of a |
| over bumps and sliding backwards into my friend's | | | | dip at my fave ski store one night. 4WD Low |
| garage at Squaw (no damage, Les) just to avoid | | | | wouldn't dig me out of the deep snow. I was scared |
| having to get out and lock the hubs for 20 feet of | | | | all the way home of getting stuck yet again. |
| forward progress. I even got stuck going up the hill | | | | Most of us don't like change because it makes us |
| to Tahoe Donner in 4WD one night, sliding backwards | | | | powerless. I found myself resisting change - even |
| down the road. I told myself I didn't want to get out | | | | something as simple as changing my hubs. Not |
| in minus 5 degree weather to lock the hubs. Luckily | | | | because of the weather. It was because of how |
| a nice policeman drove up behind me, got out and | | | | powerless I felt. That got me thinking. |
| locked my wheel hubs for me. I made it home just | | | | If I avoid a change as simple as that - what will we |
| fine. | | | | do to avoid big changes? |