Quote Originally Posted by dubord207 View Post
My Grizzly would have gone through that in a heartbeat. Last spring my ATV buddies challenged me to go through a "deep" hole on the pipeline that they knew was probably impossible. I cracked them all up when I put on a lifejacket and mask and a snorkel and went for it. When somebody says "Look out boys, I'm going to give her some", get out of the way and get the winch ready. I didn't quite get through the wet hole and learned how to drain water out of the breather that day!
HeHe . . . I learned the hard way a few years back in the Spring while doing the Newport to DF trail that when you come across a bunch of ATVers and they're all just sitting there on one side of a water crossing that you might not want to take their words of encouragement to heart (i.e. sure you can make it, we just saw a bunch go through no more than five minutes ago.)

The darn beavers had dammed up a section - water was a bit deeper than I thought . . . I might have made it across though as the wheels would hit the bottom, give me a little forward motion, I would float a bit and then hit the bottom and repeat . . . I might have made it though if I had kept on the throttle . . . as soon as I let off the gas my forward motion stopped and my weight caused the ATV to stop floating and down I went.

After my riding buddy stopped laughing he helped me pull the ATV back to dry land and after pulling the plug and draining the water we were able to jumpstart the ATV and get it running again.