Feb1 Sloan, Bedal, Pugh, White Chuck FAIL

I hate the mountain loop HWY.  so many temptations....so many roads washed out...so much angst.  Started with Bedal/Sloan and got a nice 300 vert run.  Just didn't feel like bush wacking up to the snowfields.  Drove down....tried a bunch of other roads...nothing.  Then the real trouble began.  Stopped by the Ranger Station to get some beta and a map and left with a suggestion for logging roads up toward White Chuck.  I swear I was just going to have a look at the approach.  But I was amped and not thinking very clearly which was how I found myself throttling my AWD suby with 2 inches of ground clearance up ice-packed snowmobile-packed logging roads.  My dog was crying and so was my soul.  So at 1pm I stopped driving...with dog going nuts in the passenger seat I backed right into the soft snow and then it was all over.  It would be 1AM before I got out of there.  2 hours of digging my car to no avail brought the Snohomish Co. sheriff up where he got stuck.  Most of our digging for the next 6-7 hours went toward extricating all the Search and Rescue vehicles (who came to save me).  Broke a winch.  Broke a pulley rated to 15,000 lbs or something.  Finally at 11PM a monster Jeep pulled us all out without a sweat.  Then Search and Rescue got us all lost trying to find our way down the proper logging road to Darrington.  I hate Darrington.