Let me explain the conditions of the "event" a little more clearly. I'm driving up a fairly steep slope- not paved, loose gravel and dirt, about 30 yards long with a few cars parked in a small level spot at the top. On one side of this driveway is a dropoff to a canyon- no room to manuever until you get to the top.
Everything's going fine until I actually get to the top and can't decide which spot to park in. So I stop, put it in nuetral and edge down the hill a few feet so that I can get a better angle on the spot I want to park in.
This is where things go wrong. I put the car in 1st, rev a little, drop the clutch- fully expecting the wheels to start turning and get the car moving uphill. To my surprise though the wheels are not turning at all and I'm putting the car in a bad position having drifted a few more feet downhill and on the wrong (canyon) side! So this is where I put on the handbreak and assessed the situation. In retrospect I probably should have tried to just back down the hill and start over but I was within 10 feet so I figured I'd try it again. It took very high revs to get the car moving at that point- that's when I noticed the smoke.
This situation really surprised me because I've had the car out on some "jeep" roads in the desert in steep and slippery situations and it's come out like a champ, never any problems. Since then I've driven the car and it hasn't slipped at all, just a bit of the lingering burnt clutch smell to remind me.
