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I like the otter sleds. I have the medium sled and it pulls really good.
I've had my fair share of run-ins with slush over the years, from growing up in northern Ontario, and the last few snowy seasons out here in central Alberta, and this is my opinion. The best way to avoid getting stuck in the slush is to not tow a sleigh, they create a ton of drag and that's what usually kills your momentum. Right now I use a Tundra with the 277cc engine to tow my fish trap, or a trailboggan with gear. If I have either of them hooked to the back, and I run into slush, it's game over. With me just wearing a backpack with some rods, and my auger on my rack, it'll got through up to about 12" of slush, as long as I have enough momentum when I hit it. My next sled is going to be a long track mountain sled, with a rack to hold my auger, and a few places to tie on my flasher, a tackle box and a rod case. I'm also going to look into a small hub-style shelter that can be strapped to the sled somewhere.My favorite method for getting un-stuck in the slush is to pack a big pad right beside the sled. Lift the machine up onto this pad, and clear the track out so it doesn't freeze. Pack a nice long run way in front of the sled, and use that to get moving again. It's not pretty, but it's got me mobile again, plenty of times. Here, I turned the sled around in it's tracks, and tried riding back out. Right next to the fish trap, you can see where I packed the pad and runway down with my boots. We used a similar method here. Once the sled was back up to speed, I looped back through a couple times close to the sleighs. Once the initial path was broken, I was able to hook onto the sleds individually and dragged them back to shore. My 89 tundra loves that stuff, I got the 10"wide ski skins and it gone through 2feet of slush no problem, it kinda looks like a jet ski