Not much about skiing here, but it does go to other things we don’t like to think about.
One of my sons’ friends recently acquired a 1999 4Runner, and yesterday he rolled it after getting caught on some washboard at too much speed and attempting to correct the slide instead of just pointing downhill.
One full roll and then resting precariously on the cattle fence. Drove the Cruiser down and hooked up a strap so it couldn’t roll back on its side or crush one of us as we worked on extraction.
Then pulled very gently with strap tension in both directions with the Sequoia added into the mix and eased it off the fence.
Some additional work to get the barbed wire out of the way and a spare to replace the passenger front that rolled the tire bead. She fired right up and I drove her out.
It’s totalled by any normal standard of course given the all sides damage from a roll (some options to fix it if the roof can be repaired), but the only injuries were to my hands as I didn’t realize the windshield was punched all the way in the the steering wheel and I sliced up my fingers turnin it.
The young man and his girlfriend where wearing their seatbelts and the truck protected them as it is supposed to do.
Part of my criteria has always been “what happens if you leave the road either by accident or to avoid one?” If he had just pointed downhill and ridden it out, he’d have scratched that really nice bumper on some barbed wire.
It’s a different way to think about tires, 4x4, and learning how to handle slides and being offroad.