blew a tire in the backcountry. no cell service, ~25 miles from town, minimal food and water
nw tho bc i had a spare
was on a 3-5 degree forward angle and wet ground, which made getting the vehicle jacked up difficult. got the old tire off, but before i could get the new one on the vehicle lurched forward and fell off the jack. axle in the dirt, no way to get the jack underneath it. sun down. uh oh
did a series of load transfers wherein i jacked up the vehicle as close to the front axle as i could get it, as high as it would go, then jammed in an ammo can and lowered the vehicle onto it, then added an extension to the jack, then repeated the process, adding rocks to the top of the can, each time gaining 2-3 additional inches
after 6 or 7 iterations of this, and with the jack fully extended, with the largest extension, on its longest setting, i had about half an inch of clearance to mount the spare
whole process took about two and a half hours. super sketchy but made it out okay
fuck