Did you have to winch them up?
Or did you just use man power?
We rode them out.
Or did you just use man power?
We rode them out.
2018/19 Snowy Range Snow Conditions
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Simply rode them?
Like - from where they sat?
Sounds like a fun Saturday!
Quite a ways from home for you tho.
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Funny you mention this, 3 years ago, two of our guys got separated from us in Cooke. Snow was crazy deep and the weather wasn't the best. We had radio comms. with them and we had GPS, so I could see exactly where they were. As I was talking to them and guiding them down where they needed to go, they ended up finding a guy!!
This guy was all alone, separated from his group, no radio and I believe he didn't have a damn beacon!! Needless to say they latched onto him and as crazy as it sounds a few minutes later...............they found another guy from a completely different group!!! What are the chances !!! LOL
So they took both of them and I kept in radio contact with our guys as I guided them down. A few hours later, right at dark when I was almost ready to start plan B, they popped out. Then to top it off, the one guy they found, got his sled stuck in a creek, right as they found us. He climbed out on foot and we marked it on the GPS for later.
A short time later, SAR showed up looking for these guys and we were like.......found em...ha ha.
So with one sled stuck in a creek up to the bars and the rest of us frozen, we made our way back in the dark while it was storming. SAR transported the one kid back, which turned into another gong show. Once we reached Daisy, we stopped for a minute as it was completely dark and storming real good now!! SAR took off with the kid but the kid ended up falling off the sled 3/4 of the way up Daisy! SAR came back down and said, the kid fell off and he should be hiking up the rest of the way. So we waited a couple minutes and I took off up Daisy, like I said in the dark and storming .....needless to say, I found the kid!!! I almost ran over him !!!!
Once that ordeal was done and we had everyone up top and accounted for, we transported the one kid back to town and dropped him at the fire station where the Sheriff's Deputy was waiting to take some information for the report. The other guy followed us back as well and all ended as good as it could have.
So yes..............getting back, these sleds will take people places they probably should not be!! This is a great reminder for everyone to be careful out there and watch out the "other guys" too.
This guy was all alone, separated from his group, no radio and I believe he didn't have a damn beacon!! Needless to say they latched onto him and as crazy as it sounds a few minutes later...............they found another guy from a completely different group!!! What are the chances !!! LOL
So they took both of them and I kept in radio contact with our guys as I guided them down. A few hours later, right at dark when I was almost ready to start plan B, they popped out. Then to top it off, the one guy they found, got his sled stuck in a creek, right as they found us. He climbed out on foot and we marked it on the GPS for later.
A short time later, SAR showed up looking for these guys and we were like.......found em...ha ha.
So with one sled stuck in a creek up to the bars and the rest of us frozen, we made our way back in the dark while it was storming. SAR transported the one kid back, which turned into another gong show. Once we reached Daisy, we stopped for a minute as it was completely dark and storming real good now!! SAR took off with the kid but the kid ended up falling off the sled 3/4 of the way up Daisy! SAR came back down and said, the kid fell off and he should be hiking up the rest of the way. So we waited a couple minutes and I took off up Daisy, like I said in the dark and storming .....needless to say, I found the kid!!! I almost ran over him !!!!
Once that ordeal was done and we had everyone up top and accounted for, we transported the one kid back to town and dropped him at the fire station where the Sheriff's Deputy was waiting to take some information for the report. The other guy followed us back as well and all ended as good as it could have.
So yes..............getting back, these sleds will take people places they probably should not be!! This is a great reminder for everyone to be careful out there and watch out the "other guys" too.
Same guy ?? I would have though long and hard about whether or not to take that guy out...... Not that I would have left him in the end, but can't say the thought wouldn't have gone through my mind
Or maybe take him down to to Albany Lodge, tie him to a bar stool with a big tasty beverage just out of reach, until he agrees to pay the ransom, which would be just equal to the cost of a radio.
I've been kicking this idea around after an a small avalanche covered up one of my group deployed bag was ok. Every one seems to tear around on there own in and area so maybe a guy should team up in twos to watch for each other. I've had problems with guys not waiting at turns on trails for the next guy and guy gets to intersection and doesn't know which way to go. This needs to be discussed at the trailer. And also a plan of meeting like where we were all together last. I have to say from what I'm seeing the last five years and the guys I've helped. Brains are getting lost somewhere.
I had to laugh at some of these stories! All's well that ends well; I'm sure it was much less funny at the time. Of course, I look back at when I started riding, and have to admit I was pretty boneheaded. Still, there's rookie mistakes, and then there's uncommon lack of common sense mistakes; it's fun to laugh at, but sobering when you think how much of a danger to themselves some riders can be.
I feel like there should be a demerit system that forces problem riders to go to less capable sleds depending on how much trouble they create (like getting SAR called out after riding where they shouldn't). This guy gets a Polaris Colt he can putter around on. Once he gets it running, that is...
I feel like there should be a demerit system that forces problem riders to go to less capable sleds depending on how much trouble they create (like getting SAR called out after riding where they shouldn't). This guy gets a Polaris Colt he can putter around on. Once he gets it running, that is...
My group has hardly been at all this year, when we are normally used to hitting it at least once a week. It was good in November early December but now nothing. These storms seems to be isolated farther south, as the Grand Lake Trail Groomers seem to have plenty of snow to push around.
Here is the story about the 4 guys in the snowies over Xmas
https://www.warren.af.mil/News/Features/Article/1729330/9-1-1-whats-your-emergency/
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https://www.warren.af.mil/News/Features/Article/1729330/9-1-1-whats-your-emergency/
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What would really be interesting is a detailed report from one of the snowmobilers.
Did anyone else read this in the movie trailer guys voice?
*deep ominous voice “in a world of cold and snow, 4 snowmobiles fight for their lives in what could be the worst winter storm ever recorded on earth”.
Lmao.
Didn’t know Tom Clancy worked as a reporter for warren. AFB
EXACTLY!! WTF are these guys doing!? Let’s here it.
Any reports? Looks like it's snowing here boom refresh.
They are probably working out the movie rights. Finally snowmobiling on the big screen. Do you suppose they can get an A-lister like Brad Pitt to play the lead?
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Well, maybe on some survival type show on The Weather Channel anyhow.
Rulon Gardner got his third "15 minutes" that way....
Sounds like he cut it really close.
(He may follow this board?)
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Imagine, Belushi dressed in sled gear, everyone snowmobiling, and they get to a main junction on the trail........
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