First time driving the Rubicon trail

Drove from Denver, Colorado to California and spent three days driving the Rubicon trail, arriving solo with no plan to find a group to wheel with. Day 1 went from Loon Lake to Buck Island Lake. We had to winch twice that morning after getting high centered and then near Little Sluice had the inside sidewall of tire sliced up badly. With no spare tire, that is when the Toyota crew came by and encouraged us to keep going, so we did…