duncanstives said:
12 miles? Yikes... Presumably you brought your bike on a truck... If it was a gravel road why not just walk out and get the truck?
unfortunately riding behind locked gates so only access by bike (no atv's back then) the trail I used to get there was not a push option but would have been shorter just too steep and rut infested. Aim for safe and the fun will come
Bummer... Sounds like a long day.
Got my jeep stuck once about 10 miles from a road... It was winter and I had my littler sister with me (she was about 8)... I got a fire going so she could keep warm (and me since I was soaked from trying to free the jeep) and when it became appartent it was hopeless we walked out got to a road (and cell coverage) around 10:30... Forest service was already searching for us but we were fine... My little sister was in excellent spirits... Especially since I let her eat the emergency snacks... She still talks about it fondly 5 years later... Lol
$250 to have a towing place recover it (pretty good deal considering it took the guy about 5 hours) and a little money for new fluids in the diffs, wheel bearing grease, etc (sat in the mud overnight) and I was back on the trail. Totally worth it.