I shoulda kept my taurus too. ONce the tranny dropped into gear it would chirp the orig from 89 spongy soft tires up front np. that trail is nothing compared to the set of snow covered stairs it went down...twice. buahaha
actually a quick funny off road story...a 2004 jeep wrangler came into the shop the other day..well..it was towed in..covered completly in mud..up to and past the doors was the water/mud line. Apparently the kid took his LEASED wrangler to some swampy trail..and it was a bit more then it could handle..hell it looked like more then bigfoot could handle..regardless the manual trans had locked up and upon dropping it out and opening it we shoveled about 10-20 pounds of sand/dirt from it
another 30 was under the skid plate and tons all over the car..that was fun..lol
just remember to read "Professional driver on a closed course" and think about what it means haha