I've personally helped out several people over the years who needed a pull or push back onto the trail or righted. And, I've received help from others more than just a few times. However, I can think of possibly three situations in which I may not provide assistance: if the vehicle is stuck off trail due to the driver having done something illegal, the driver is obviously drunk, or the stuck vehicle weight is greater than 5000 pounds or buried in deep sticky mud. These are just some rules of thumb, nothing carved in stone, here.
Only once have I not offered to assist; the driver of the stuck pickup truck with camper unfortunately did not take it well, even though I offered a ride to wherever he needed to go to get help. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Fred I think I have been taken out of context here.. I too, have helped right over turned vehicles..I too, have pushed and pulled stuck or high centered vehicles. Once I even chained my Jeep to a tree and winched a heavy blazer with a broken driveshaft up a steep incline so he could go to the house.
However when a guy is showing off and takes to the mud hole instead of the trail around it.. nope! He did it on purpose and there he stayed as far as I was concerned.. I did offer to hold his beer however.
Big JIm <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

I'm new here but I think BigJim thinks like some of the members of my club. we don't leave anyone behind on the trail.
The first trail ride I ever took there was a new guy that could not stay out of mud , after the third time it was hard to get anyone to give him a strap. If you see that they just don't care where they go its hard to help them.
some of us went back about an hour later to get him. I will work all day to help anyone but to waist my time on someone
all day isn't right.

< I guess I'm the Mullet that would choose the mud hole instead of the trail around it! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/notooth.gif" alt="" />
But,Jim, you're right about the common sense thing.....can't pull out a Freightliner with Kia..........Well, maybe one piece at a time! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

the trails are at marine creek and 820 on the nort west side of the creek. not alot there but it is somewhere to go.

Yeah, yeah. Just wait until someone passes you up on the trail in a stuck, and thinks you did something stupid in their mind. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

At some trails, if you leave your vehicle overnight, it will not be there in the morning. It will be dragged off somewhere else on the trails, and possibly burned.

Help the stuck ones out and go...if they get stuck again cause of their stupidity, then shame on them.

We had a guy on the trail with us, big mouth and a beat Toyota with smaller tires, most of us were running Jeeps with a min of 33 inch tires, he kept following us despite being told to take easier lines and must have got high sided at least 10 times.We pushed/pulled every time. The next time we went out I told him in no uncertain terms he would get 1 free one only and then we would leave him till we returned, he did learn. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif" alt="" />

jk, you should come out with us sometime. Sounds like our trails are a little more involved. And we're close by. It's tough finding good wheeling when you're in a huge metroplex like us. Our trails get smaller every year, so we have to use them while we can.

I've been talking to him by PM. Sounds like a good guy. I told him we would let him know the next time we are going out.

Oh yeah, I smell <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/oink.gif" alt="" />. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> No hard feelings JK.

I just got back from Alaska where it's against the LAW to drive past someone stuck in the snow and not offer assistance or report thier plate number and location to the police.