>>650786>going shooting up in mountains with wife>driving a tiny hyundai sedan with non-snow tires>decide to take scenic route>scenic route is treacherous mountain pass along deadly cliff faces uphill for several miles>pfft it's not that late in the season there's probably barely any snow>start drive, notice a few ice/slush patches but not too much>pass a sign saying ROAD NOT MAINTAINED DO NOT USE or some such>nah we're fine I drive this all the time in the summer>as we ascend, encounter more and more ice and snow>eventually it's entirely ice/snow>driving uphill around blind corners across ice sheets in a sedan with street tires on a narrow path with a deadly cliff drop on one side>fuck fuck this was dumb>can't turn around, too narrow>can't stop, will lose momentum and won't be able to start again>finally find a place to pause and try and turn around>wife is freaking out, but helps me slowly, slowly reorient myself so we're facing downwards>use entire bag of kitty litter in trunk as traction>spend 45 minutes doing the thing where you pull back, turn, go forward a bit, turn, pull back a bit, etc.>thank God no cars came around during>front wheels 2 feet away from edge of cliff entire time>finally turn around and slowly crawl back down in lowest gear riding the brakeFuck that was harrowing. I was a goddamn retard. I knew that after a while it evened out so I wouldn't be going uphill so I pushed on since I was already on the way. Sunk cost fallacy I guess.
pic related, part of the drive, in summer
