Important lesson here. I know the partial-deflation to improve traction trick that dougwalkabout mentions. Sitting in my living room, under no stress, I didn’t think of it or mention it.

It’s a really good idea to mentally walk through all of what you might do, so that you make as many decisions in advance of a stressful situation as possible.

Great point about frozen ground.

A flip-flop winch can be done by one person at need. I wouldn’t want to try it with less than 2000lb test line and 3000lb test would be better. While you can get it done with dynamic rope, static rope makes it a whole lot easier.