If you get your 4 stroke stuck you just gotta wait until spring

I ran out of breath watching this. :-)

“You’re not riding hard enough if you’re not getting stuck” AMEN!!!

Getting stuck in the steep while in trees is where it's much more difficult...love to see some tips on that.

Now, can you do the same with a 4 stroke or do you need a crane?

I don't have a sled, don't live near mountains, and still watched the whole thing.

im legit watching this vid because i just had to leave my sled over night because i couldnt get it unstuck. legit amateur right here

Something my Dad taught us as kids, always carry good rope with us. We always have 1/4" and about 30' of it. Worked great in the Bighorns and Lolo Pass many times. The first thing is to roll the sled part way, or dig to get at the bottom of the track. Then run the rope under the bellypan. Now run it around a steel track clip that the drivers push on (through the holes in the track)and tie it really good. Lay the sled track down again. Now take up the slack and tie the other end of the rope to a tree or a solid object. Start the sled and SLOWLY allow the track to turn and tighten the rope. Slowly giving more throttle will wrap the rope around the track as the sled moves forward under its own power. Once unstuck, carefully remove the rope and save until next time. This is something that's great when you're alone.

everything looks so much easier in light fluffy snow. Most of those Technics dont work in the heavy wet mess up here in the PNW. Good information thanks

If only I would have watched this video before I went sledding last weekend. Would have saved me an hour and a half and humiliation😂 thank you for the informative lessons.

Great vid, it was awesome to see those different methods with out any shovels needed! I’ve definitely learned a ton this year from your videos! Please keep them coming

Good stuff Dan. All my friends in Eastern Oregon say there's 3 phases to mountain riding. 1.) Getting stuck. 2.) Getting Unstuck 3.) Learning how not to get stuck Unfortunately #3 is far and few between for me at this current time so all the learning provided on getting unstuck is much appreciated. Thanks

This video at the end,is the first real teaching for beginners I've heard. Thank you!!!

i just started this sport and this video is pure gold. u doing great work with this channel man, greetings from Romania

Great video! Riding an old Indy classic yesterday I buried it in a tree well. When you can't roll it a shovel is invaluable for both avalanche rescue and digging out a machine that weighs 570 pounds!

I encourage people to watch your video's! Its so awesome you do these.

Hey Dan!! A buddy took me sledding in the "Real outdoors" for the first time last weekend south of Revy and Hunters Range, finally figured out how to turn/Lean in powder, lol. Now I'm hooked! I've spent waaaaay to much time checking out Sled vids now since then. Watched a few of yours, learnt how to do some stuff thanks to your knowledge. Just subscribed! Thanks for all you do!!

Thanks Dan your tips have helped me as a new rider so much.

thank you! - I'm new to the sport and needed to hear that. Getting stuck is all part of it.

Great job Dan!!!

Just got my 1st sled and all your videos and info sure help out thanks man for the great content

It would have had to feel weird purposely getting stuck for this!!! Love the videos! Very informative keep it up!

Ive been riding for decades. Some of you tricks I have never seen or used very informative Dan. I use a shovel a lot when I’m by my self. Getting stuck vertical on a steep hill sucks you need a good shovel and rope some times to save you sled

I wouldn't be able to do this to my massive touring sled 😂😂😂

This is awesome!. Thank you. All guides will make guests watch this!.

Great tips! I’ve been riding mountains for 20 years and didn’t know this!

Awesome content!! Thanks for the tips. Now I need to get out and ride!

I appreciate this video. Thanks for some techniques to try

I'm sending this to my riding buddies, they will learn so much. They use their muscle too much and not enough their brain to get unstuck some time lol. Thanks for the tips.

Always learning great video!!

OUTSTANDING ! I GOT my 4-STROKE SUPER STUCK...... lots, and lots, and lots of digging, what a relief when I FINALLY blasted out. EXCELLENT VIDEO GUYS!

Would love to see a tutorial on neutral stance, specifically how to get on edge, how to carve and change direction

Tree riding nosing into a tree too big to cut down and no body can get to you to help. Tying a rope to a tree up mountian as an anchor and tie the other end to a window in your track you can use track as winch to get your sled off the tree. This works great in really tight steep trees. Great video Dan!

Thanks. This has been super helpful.

Great video! But out of everything you showed us the last part of the video was the end. You absolutely right you cant be afraid of getting stuck. With us if your not stuck you arent pushing yourself hard enough. Great video Dan!

Loved this video!

Another great video like always

Great Tips! I wish I had watched something like this years ago...

I’ve had a couple where it’s easier to just walk out and buy a new sled. 😂 Seriously though, my brother had one so bad in the bottom of a drainage last year we had to come back in the spring. At one point we had 8 guys trying. Wish I could post pics here. I promise he’ll never do that again. I’ve had some great on hill comedy watching some people who just don’t have a clue. And your right, a lot of times they end up in a yard sale down the hill (usually the guys who kinda deserve it and know everything). But hey, I’ve done it before myself...nobody knows everything or can do it perfect every time.Thanks for another great one.

New to this. Thanks for the advice.

Great advice!

Used this technique few times already! Thank you for shearing :)

Wow what a god. I learn so much from your vids

Great Video.. I like how u used the throttle an got rid of the binding. Never thought of that. Great tip.

Dan Dan u the man coming to take a class next year my friend!! Keep the hits coming😁🤘

Great video Dan love these tutorials. Would it be possible to do one again I. The spring time when the snow is heavier and more setup, I know personally those are the hardest to get out of for myself!

Loving this!

Thanks the last one really help

What about getting unstuck in tight trees where you can’t role the sled down hill?

Just left Cooke City... and your knowledge helped us as group of 9 roll through Daisy, Lulu, Chimney rock an experience deep back county from taking notes... thank you!

Great video.

Good tips, thank you

I wish I could give this video 10 thumbs up! I’m a first time rider and I just saw this video. I wish I had seen it before getting stuck for the first time! I just got stuck again today and thanks to this video I was able to get out myself! Thanks for posting these. Now I just need to figure out how to steer. My sled just seems to go where it wants

You guys made that look so easy !

Earlier "today" I got stuck in a pine tree! Took 30min to get unstuck and 2 ppl. Id like to see a guide on that! Was playing around in the woods and got too close to the huge pine tree, so the snowmobile tipped more than 130° to the side into the tree. Had to lift it up 😁

Great content! I have never been around as many stuck snowmobiles as I was this year.... all part of the fun 👊.. if ever you need ideas of how to get stuck... I got a bunch 😂

I usually just yard on it until blood is pouring out of my eyes and ears. Good thing I stop just before my heart does....or I stroke out. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Great video Dan.

I wish I'd watched this before I spent so much time shoveling yesterday, my first time on a sled in real snow in nearly 20 years. Things have changed a bit in that time.

Great Video Dan. Like learning how to use less effort getting unstuck. Is there any other tips for using the track to dig out & get going again?

Great video 👍

Your shovel is your friend never go without it

You guys should do a hill climbing how to. Surprising how much useful information lots of people, including me, don't know. Also, I go for a roll over whenever possible

Good channel! Thanks for your tips))

Got stuck like this today and friends helped me out, my name is dylan and hearing the name in the video woke me up a little hahaha

I've found the best way to get unstuck is to get my brother to help me. He doesn't complain that much. 😂

Got stuck while getting a tour from a local on Svalbard. Luckily enough, he's a freaking bear, so he just lifted it up on some untreaded snow, track first, then skis, leaving me with snow that gave me enough traction to keep going. I know I wouldn't be able to do that myself, though, so thanks for the pointers!

I still want hill climbing tips, so I'm going to keep asking!

I got mine stuck in a mud bog I thought was frozen last year. It was very complicated, it took a lot of different things like many different trees for leverage and blocks. A saw is a good thing

Great lessons, I'm going up to Daniels Summit in a few weaks (lol weaks) THANKS for the lessons my man.

Thank you!

our family own a couple 4 stroke skidoo tundra's. and the reverse on those is instrumental in getting unstuck.

Ive been Upside down & nose down in a 12foot deep tree well ..ski on each side of a tree at the bottom of a 100ft ravine ..alone ..I had to remove the entire 12ft of treewell wall to get the upside down sled level so it could be pulled backwards to clear the skis from the tree ..then flip the sled right side up ..then shovel a flat pad big enough to rotate the sled 180 degrees to aim it at the escape line ..that was 3 hours with shovel to extract the sled from the well ..and 2 more hours to shovel an angled cut up out of the ravine ..11am stuck ..shoveling sweatfest all day ..escaped at nighfall

Something I learned in snowboarding, “I little more work now, will save a ton of work later.” Meaning, if you think you can ride through a sticky situation with out taking a little time to reposition the sled, you’ll find yourself even more stuck.

great video!!!!!!

Dang, I'm stuck. *Youtubing how to get unstuck...

Great video for riding big back country. Any tips for the guys that want to rip across a fresh field on a trail oriented sled and get stuck before getting back on trial?

would be good to see some vids on heaver snow

I use a snow bungee instead of someone pulling directly from the ski. Or I roll the sled.

Would love a wheelie video❄🤙

Something important is to remember that you shouldn’t roll your 4 stroke because your oil will probably leak out if you dont have a special valve

That last one though. Damn!

good vid thank you

Snowmobiling and skiing are similar if you fall or get stuck. The steeper the better. Fell once skiing on level terrain and couldn’t get up whereas when you fall on an really steep terrain your almost up when your on the ground . If you get stuck on a snowmobile on level terrain or in a depression your in trouble

Sometimes you just cant get un-stuck when you are by yourself

Thanks very helpful tips now I can get my sled unstuck easily thank you

Awesome thx

I once got stuck on flat ground. I was driving a lynx rave 600Re, and it was 1.5m powder on our farm fields. I was driving as fast as i could and the skies was up in the air. I just steered by leaning on that side i wanted to go. One of the fields went slightly uphill and had a fence on the end. So i had to turn. AS I Let the throttle off my skies went on the snow giving me a breaking effect. The belt spins at a really high speed but the friction of the skies stops the snowmobile. I never had time to react and use the break to stop the belt from spinning. I digged a hole all the way through the snow and to the ground. The snow depth was to my waist. I walked all the way home to get a shovel because it was impossible to get the snomobile unstuck by hand. I was really exhausted because walking in snow up to your waist is really hard in thick clothes. My friends still jokes about the hole i made since it looked like someone dropped a bomb there 😂😂

Today I was trying to get through at stream crossing that had a culvert out and icy wet snow and I ended up stabbing into the Stream bank the other side basically and I was very stuck....I actually found a great technique was to roll the sled on its side and then winch it backwards out With a lug all come along... otherwise the backs of the skis tended to dig into the bank

Thank you for showing us that mountain sledding is far too much work.

Pack snow in front of track!! Then pin and wiggle! Little prep work goes a long way

ありがとうございます 勉強になりました

Ive owned a vmax all my life. I know all about getting unstuck. Could probably write a book about it.

Oh man. We rode 160 miles the other day. I just HAD to do one more loop out in the potato farm fields. Was tired and hit a side hill that was about 5’ deep and sucked my 2019 TNT Ski Doo 600 down the hill, pretty much just like that. OMG, every step I took, I sunk and my boot stuck. It was absolutely grueling, My husband and I turned the sled together and he drove it like a ninja, boondocking up a hill FULL of trees. It was amazing. I appreciate this video. As a female rider, OMG 😱, it can be the end, LOL 😂

Glad to see I am not the only one who breaths hard when trying to get a sled unstuck! However I usually have to ether take off my helmet or always now with my CKX flip it down or I will have a heart attack!

Finally a way to get unstuck without using my shovel every time

this helped so so so much!!!!1

Good seeing you laugh, usually too serious, can be professional and still joke around a bit.

Obviously snow conditions are everything. You guys never locked the brake to add stop and safety while rolling over the sled. I’ve had a sled more than once in steep just keep on going. Learned the hard way. Powder versus Spring snow. Just curious how you feel about it. I do like a lot of the techniques of freeing up the track to break the suction. Thanks

Отличные видео! Смотрю, очень интересно и познавательно! Впервые пожалел, что не знаю английский язык, приходится пользоваться переводчиком. Но и без перевода многое понятно по видео. Спасибо за контент! У нас горные снегоходы не так сильно распространены.

What about on a trail sled sometimes you wind up in deeper snow than you thought and get stuck