Fun story Larry....
We were here, pretty close to the middle of NOWHERE:
The "road" in and out is two ruts in the sand:
It wasn't all 14" deep but it was definitely deep enough. There are signs the BLM has out there saying "Deep Sand, 4WD Required", and "Know the difference between AWD, 4WD, and High Clearance 4WD", yet there are still idiots...
On our way out of there, we ran across a young couple in a FWD rental Nissan econobox and its chassis was resting on the sand between the ruts. Its front bumper cover was plowing sand. No idea how it got so far in there... but it wasn't going any further without assistance. I would have towed them out except there were no tow points on the vehicle (they couldn't find the adapter thing to screw into the chassis).
They did manage to have a cell signal to call for a tow. I overheard them talking, "Yes, I need a tow..."
Uh, no you don't. You need a recovery. There's a difference.
They blocked the access road for ~45 minutes and by the time we got them moved out of the way there were two dozen or so vehicles lined up behind them. We were getting out because it was looking like there was weather (rain) coming in and one of our gang had a rental car about 10 miles off pavement. We wanted to get it out to the pavement before the road possibly got soaked as it's clay and would be SUPER slick. I went full dad mode on this kid for about 3 minutes, about how irresponsible his actions were, and how his decisions were now impacting everyone else behind him. Then we got on with trying to do something about their situation.
It was pretty pointless though, so we bailed. It will be expensive for them, but their safety wasn't in danger. I hope it's a good learning experience for them. I assume they eventually had someone come snag them, but never saw a tow rig on the main road- although can't say I was really watching either.
We managed to get out, re-position the rental car for our party member, and head back in for one more night in the wilds. Conveniently, it managed to not rain on us as well.
We did another night time photo session too:
Absolutely epic trip.