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>Skis/alignment were totally fucked
>Pipe was crunched in, it'd hold 5k fairly well but anything more than that it'd bog and get shitty
>A sensor was also fucked - check-engine light was on the whole time, occasionally it'd go outside of tolerances and kick the ECU into limp-mode making everything even shittier
>Fortunately a stop/restart would correct that for a while
>But I'm doing okay on here; unless something else breaks I can ride it out.
>With the long-track secured on the trailer and a decent track to get out, we gathered everything and headed back to the meadow then on to the trail
>A few rodeo moments, several tip-overs of both the utility sled and the trailer/towed machine
>Finally got everything and everyone out to the meadow, fairly easy-going from here
>rider A suggests a shortcut
>FUCKING NO WE'RE NOT DOING THAT RIGHT NOW
>Long trail ride back
>Frozen lake just opposite the cabin, can ride the lake across instead of taking the trail all the way around the lake
>Lake's frozen solid on top, but there's slush/mashed-potato snow on top
>utility sled, pulling a dead sled, is having a really hard time powering through those mashed potatoes
>A's already taken off across the lake back to the cabin
>1 and 3 aren't quite confident enough to really help out here, so
>I put a ski against the back of the trailer and push it as much as I can with the crippled sled i'm riding to keep the utility sled and trailer moving forward through the slush
>Back on the trail, across the highway, to the lodge
>fucking finally
>Dead sleds into the trailer, return the utility sled
>Quick bite to eat before changing and loading up to head out
>Dropped the two borrowed sleds off at $DEALER, one being the one that got assholed
>fortunately the tunnel wasn't damaged, just needed new rails
>Sled I limped out got a bunch of new parts, it was fully repaired a few weeks later
