The day was moving along without a hitch when we reached the V Notch. Chuck decided to try an interesting line that started on the far left, crossed over in the middle, and finish off with the notch. Turns out he got a little off his line and it put him in an interesting spot on 2 wheels. A quick pull on the winch and we were on out way again.
Just before the mud pits we hit our first snow drift of the day. Plowed through that one no problem and continued on to the mud pits. At this point, patrol 6 had radioed back that there was a very large drift at the sharp turn at the top of bowling ball hill. The didn't have any luck with it, so they were on there way down.
We reached bowling ball, and sent up our snow buster... Morgan! Morgan gave it hell, but was not able to power through on his own. Luckily he had just bought a brand new smittybilt land anchor. We busted that out, and after figuring out how to work it properly, Morgan was able to winch himself right up on top of the drift. Ryan followed next, and soon the whole group was on their way up. Tyler left his rig at the bottom because he didn't have a winch, but then one of the Patrol 6 guys wanted to reach the top with us.
We ran into one more drift up on the tundra, but it was hard packed enough for us to stay on top of it and just drive on over to the lake. We snapped some pics, and headed back down to air up.
A couple of us weren't quite ready to head home as it was still early, so we went off to check out some roads by Kite Lake. We found a ton of old mining roads that just crossed all over the mountain and kept climbing. We took as many of the roads as we could before we were eventually stopped by every single one.
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