Road tyres and sand!?

I mean really, was this a sensible thing to try?

4x4 is one thing, but the wrong tyres, no rope, no jack, no winch??

The holes don't look deep, but once the wheels started spinning, we were kinda buggered!




The second attempt up the hill got us within five metres of the top before digging in, and trying to reverse back down just spun the tyres the other way, so another solution was needed - we (me and sister who was down for the weekend), packed sticks behind the tyres, which enabled us to reverse on to them, then filled the holes we had dug and packed sticks there too, then managed to drive forward for about a metre, maybe a metre and a half before digging more holes with the tyres.

After four of theses sessions (limited amount of sticks available), we were over the top and on our way to the pub!!

Several lessons learned, but mostly; getting stuck out there with a couple of bottles of coke between us is not really an option. Several litres of water will now stay in the car!