Did I do the right thing? What would of you done?

[mudski]

I did shake my head when I did my first assessment of where the vehicle was, as it just shouldn't of been there and his mate was in the back ground saying "I told you not to go that way".

At the time I was annoyed at the no real rear recovery point.

The drivers mate who was doing all the grunt work for us was pretty cool. He said to his misses, who he left at home with their young child that he was going out with his mate 4WDing and would " only be two hours" cracked me up. I bet he was in the shit when he finally got home.

No I wasn't angry at all with them. After all they were out for the same reason I was just for fun. But hopefully they have learned something from this and will be better prepared. I have at learnt something just from talking about it.

Yeah hopefully. But some don't learn unfortunately.
I used to do a lot of trail bike riding. I carried, a puncture kit and tube with tyre levers, a tool kit with assorted nuts and bolts, two chain links, a few other assorted spares and a first aid kit on me. I was surprised and still are when talking to riders, that they don't carry anything of the sort and don't even know how to repair a puncture. And they laugh about it.

As for if you should have helped, well, its good Karma my friend, never leave a man behind, and some one else may have come along and snatched off the tow ball etc.

Yeah good point. Last thing you want is to hear of an injury or worse from something that you decided not to participate in...