Post your most stuck picture's here in this thread.
Nice, I still hav'nt gotten stuck after 4 snow trips and 8 mud trips this season, almost, but not completely.
Wish I had pics of the incident but I guess you'll have to take my word for it.
Last year in April, I was traveling to a Scout camp for shooting with my venture crew. We piled into two vehicles, a Honda minivan and an old '80's Ford Econoline E-350 Clubwagon. Well it had been raining, and the trails weren't kept up real well so when we got there there was this huge pond in the middle of the trail that led to the camp sites.
Our Venture leader driving the e-350 saw that he could make it and told the lady Scout leader in the honda to wait till he was through. He gunned up the engine and race right through with very little slippage. The lady leader thought that because the Ford went through so easy that she could make it and *plowed* in! She got stuck sliding in and around the mud hole, seriously stuck.
So being the inventive scouts we were I and the male venture leader took and active and deep role in mud slinging that van out of there. We shoved and pushed, but the lady leader kept gunning and dug herself in worse. Finally we told her to stop and tried to use branches in front of the wheels to give them some traction. That failed and we had created canyons where ridges were before in the mud, in one last effort we flattened the ridges with the drier mud and shoved it under the wheels. Well I went up front to push where could at least get some traction with my boots and right then the lady leader decided to turn her whelels to the left and all the mud she kicked up went inside my mouth nose and shirt . But with that last shove we got her out.
My only consolation was in the fact that the giggling girls in the front seat left the window down when I got splattered... .
Needless to say, Ford triumph's again!!
You can only do something like that in a stock explorer with speed so the momentum carries you through, because traction otherwise obviously will not.