Had a chance to ride yesterday with usual riding buddy on his 14 grizz, and then old riding buddy I caught up with and his 17 special edition grizz. Alot of our riding requires creek crossings or creek runs to get across and I’m always the guy getting stuck, immediately. I really blame the tires, big horns, just because they dig so much in the soft creek sand. Buddy on 14 grizz with stock maxis would drive in circles around me, and never get stuck. The digging tire theory came into fact yesterday since buddy on 14 grizz upgraded to bear claws, and buddy on 17 grizz had stock maxis. Stock, low lugged tires seem to be the way to get across the soft sand bottom creek.

But, at one crossing I decided to try something new. Had about a 100yr run to make up the creek to another landing that would allow a ride up vs having to winch up the bank. So I struck off and literally only gave enough throttle to creep up the creek, no mad spinning tires, and when it’d stop and begin to dig in, I’d stop, back up just as gingerly, then after tracks sited back in, would start the slow run again.

Was able to make it all the way without having to winch at all. Buddies on their grizzlys, stock and aftermarket tires, had to winch most of the way up, think alot was due to slightly heavy throttle and wheel spin, forcing a dig down. So tried my slow method again at another crossing, and worked again. So basically, if you haven’t done it that way on soft creek bottoms, give it a shot, the slow barely about ideling up the creek and see if it’ll reap more progress with less winching

Had a chance to ride yesterday with usual riding buddy on his 14 grizz, and then old riding buddy I caught up with and his 17 special edition grizz. Alot of our riding requires creek crossings or creek runs to get across and I’m always the guy getting stuck, immediately. I really blame the tires, big horns, just because they dig so much in the soft creek sand. Buddy on 14 grizz with stock maxis would drive in circles around me, and never get stuck. The digging tire theory came into fact yesterday since buddy on 14 grizz upgraded to bear claws, and buddy on 17 grizz had stock maxis. Stock, low lugged tires seem to be the way to get across the soft sand bottom creek.

But, at one crossing I decided to try something new. Had about a 100yr run to make up the creek to another landing that would allow a ride up vs having to winch up the bank. So I struck off and literally only gave enough throttle to creep up the creek, no mad spinning tires, and when it’d stop and begin to dig in, I’d stop, back up just as gingerly, then after tracks sited back in, would start the slow run again.

Was able to make it all the way without having to winch at all. Buddies on their grizzlys, stock and aftermarket tires, had to winch most of the way up, think alot was due to slightly heavy throttle and wheel spin, forcing a dig down. So tried my slow method again at another crossing, and worked again. So basically, if you haven’t done it that way on soft creek bottoms, give it a shot, the slow barely about ideling up the creek and see if it’ll reap more progress with less winching