Trip started out fairly easy and uneventful as most of the road were just washboard/unmaintained dirt roads. We then decided to venture of the planned route to what would have been a nice short cut to our next cache. The trail was a slight incline with pockets of deep fine sand. We made it half way up in 2wd then lost traction. No biggie, just put it in 4wd. Well this is when I discovered my disconnect had gone bad. I heard a faint pop(which i believe were the gears slipping) and front wheels were motionless.
I took a few minutes to cuss the truck then backed down the hill. Luckily I wasn't to deep in the sand and was able to back down with no problems. At this time we decided to head back to my brothers to get his truck. He drives a Honda Ridgeline, which I must say is a pretty good truck for being a unibody Honda.
On the way back to his house the one thing I was worried about happened, big pocket of fine sand. I made it about halfway through then the back end just started sinking. Tried to reverse out and just sank deeper.
This where I learn that self recovery in the desert is near impossible without a winch and pull-pal. Everything we tried failed. After about an hour, as my brother was about call one of his buddies, a jeep and a side-by-side pulled up. After their initial shock of seeing a lifted Trailblazer and chatting a bit, we hooked up the side-by-side and was pulled to firmer ground.
After getting the brothers truck we headed back out and didn't have anymore problems. We even found the only mud hole around and had some fun playing in it.
My truck even earned a "TRAILBLAZERS" patch.
