was up in the Eastern Sierra this past weekend doing some relaxing and reflecting and fishing. while backing up to a fishing spot i suddenly dropped off and heard a big bang. what my mirrors failed to show me was this large step that's just too big for our Elements to handle. gotta hand it to Honda's engineers... putting that bar down there to protect the fuel tank SAVED MY BUTT!!!! the car was literally resting on that thing. a dent in the first stage muffler and some scratches were the only visible damage to the car. drove back without issues.

yeah. AWD didn't want to work cus the car was high-centered. not enough weight on the tires to gain traction. so i ended up cranking the wheel hard right, then backed the E off that drop. once cleared of the drop, i backed off some more, re-aligned myself for a plow-through to the left, where some bushes and harder dirt sorta made a way to get out of that mess.

moral of story? get out of your car and check the road before you plan to go "off road." hahahaha

will

I've learned from the school of hard knocks that it is a good thing to have a spotter when making manuvers around camp. It is all to easy to forget that there is a rock, hole, or campfire ring nearby.

Some years ago my office looked out on to a campus sidewalk that was wide enough to drive on. But it also had a set of stairs. On serveral occasions, cars tried to drive down this walk, only to get hungup on the nearly invisible (from above) stairs.

paulj

Aha yes, The E does it's job well!

So did you get any Fish, or what?

Aha yes, The E does it's job well!

So did you get any Fish, or what?
Yup :) between me and Mark, over 2 days of Owens River, Crowley Lake, and Rock Creek Lake, we totalled a light 25 or so. All catch-n-release :)

2 browns (out of Crowley Lake)
rest were rainbows :)

largest fish = 17.5 rainbow out of Crowley

You know...after seeing that fish. it reminds me of a story. One time (at BandCamp) I was fishing and caught the biggest fish in the river, and it was so heavy that it made my Element sink in the mud. :-P

hahaha that's cool! muddin' in an Element. were you able to get out??

Ouch, glad the E was OK.

Glad you got out okay. Looks like you had a beautiful spot for fishing! Absolutely georgous pictures!

...I like the fish on the E in the mud...very funny...