Yeah, FTDK I scratched my head at the time, but it sure gets you thinking.
What choice would you make if there was only big timber and a fence line with timber posts?
... or
a narrow dirt road cut out of a tree canopy and a chanelled claypan
...or
pulled timber and a big gibber/boulder plain....
What do you do?
gear up or down?
All hypotheticals
Some have walked away from these situations in fixed gear machines and lived to tell the tail.. and some have not.
I'm sure the pilot involved here thought he was doing the best option