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Christmas Fund for Animal's Family

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WOW.....thanks Kim for doing that. I know for a fact your eyes were not dry while you typed that. I know mine weren't reading it! You and I have had enough conversations about that day that I know it isn't easy for you to relive. He was a great person and has definately brought many of us closer!

I can honestly say that Daves death has made me more aware of the dangers we face when we are on the mountain. I NEVER want to have my friends or family have to wonder what could have happened differently for me to have made it home, and I NEVER want to wonder the same about any of you.

I hope and pray that we will all put a little "Animal" in ourselves and remember to do some good for those in need this time of year!

God bless,

jw


P.S. It was good to see you tonight, even if you were dressed like a Phoenix fan!!!!
 
animal came to my house one time to look at a 67 mustang I had for sale. It was for his oldest daughter. We talked about the car for maybe 3 minutes and about Sledden for probably an hour. His entire family was there and didn't seem to mind the conversation. I think they knew what it ment to him. I'm sure alot of his conversations warped into Sledden conversations:)

The sick of digging out those RMKS was priceless!!! Some couldn't stop laughing...some newbies thought he was serious and came to the rescue of RMKS!! That was some serious funny stuff!!
 
Kim... when do you think you'll make plans for dinner? Might be able to make it down.

More stickers would be cool... I still have the small one and I made a couple of the big ones. The trailer that was in Washington was mine and I put the big one on the back door many years ago. I sold the trailer to a good friend of mine and he sells sled decks and goes to all the sled shows. He says he gets a lot of questions about it.

Thanks for putting this together... will Doug (Rock) be around for the dinner?
 
Scott.....great to see you around here! I'll check into the stickers too! If Dustin can't make them, I'm sure someone can. Doug will absolutely be at the dinner, but he's baking in the Bahamas as we speak.
 
Kim... sent you a little $$$ to paypal... let me know if you didn't get it.

Good job on this. I know all the support from the forums meant a lot to Dave's family... I sure do miss talking to him and his late night misspelled posts.:):rolleyes:
 
I sure do miss talking to him and his late night misspelled posts.:):rolleyes:[/QUOTE]


Even my spell checker gave up trying to figure out that new "animal" language:D
 
Funny thing about Dave and I is we started off in the forum not liking each other much. I think I rode him alot like I do Sally. :)

Then within a year we were talking multiple times a day, riding about once a week, even received a shirt from him at one of the movie premieres at Brewvies. Does anyone remember what it said?? I still have it!!

But he really didnt like when my single piped 900 beat his 1000 big bore. ;) I attached a picture, these were for Animal!!

Tassles.jpg
 
Sunridge Sledhead said:
was evident. We found Dave and his sled off the slope in the trees. The time to recovery was 18 minutes. CPR was started immediately. About 3 hours later, search and rescue made it to us
Click to expand...

That day truly sucked... 18 minutes... As I think back on it, it seemed like it was faster than that.

sled_guy
 
:brokenheart: I'm glad this is online and I don't have to speak right now.

There are so many things about him I'll never forget. I too miss the late night drunk dials where he'd howl at me! "Coyoteeeeeeeeeeeeeeee aroooooooooooo" :D I will never remove his phone number from my phone. I get tempted sometimes to call it... I know Carolyn kept it in service for a while.

I remember the night before all you goofballs playing poker! I'll have to dig up my pictures.

I remember the morning of the ride sitting in his kitchen as he did the dishes visiting about his youngest daughter who'd just learned a bad habit.... (cussing). hehee

I remember him standing there talking with such pride of his family, his beautiful bride and daughters. How the whole family had pitched in ALL week long to help him cook up his famous ribs (for all of these strangers!) and went to the extra trouble of making salmon just for me......

And I remember hugging him before we got on our sleds saying "if I forget later, thanks for the invite".

I'll never truly understand why... people say everything happens for a reason. Well, a year later after we dug our buddy Keith out alive!! I got an email stating that it's possible that was one of the reasons why Dave left us... to help us keep others safe in the future. I'd rather have them both alive....

Here is a link to pics of the avi. It was massive, to say the least.

I know it seems all dramatic sometimes, but I make myself remember all the bad stuff from that day to hopefully never ever be there again. I don't want to forget, get sloppy (like we did a year later), make more mistakes and have to look people in the eyes knowing I had something to do with their pain. I have a sticker on my helmet and sled to hopefully serve as reminders. Want one on my trailer.

BTW, I miss many of you too... lol ;)
 
I'm not a real active poster and don't get out with the UT SnoWest crew much, but I did know Animal from SnoWest and had the opportunity to spend some time with him here and there back when. I saw him at a his finest a few times on late night repairs!

I'll never forget his crazy humor! Kim called out his classic post of "sick to death of digging out those RMK's", but I'll never forget his late night rant (like most of his late night rants!LOL) about hitting the ditch and smashing his A-Arms up on his new Cat! He munched a set of A arms every day for a week it seemed! Then he went built his own titanium A arms and spindles and told us all about his engineering and welding! Classic! I smile just thinking about some of the stuff he used to post/say! This place was different back then - but is still a great place to meet good friends and have a good laugh! Animal taught us all well - may we be able to carry that on to others!

Kim - sending some $$ via paypal now. PG
 
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Thanks SS for sharing. He must have been one amazing guy, and dang lucky to have had friends like all of you. I didn't think I would tear up again and then CG posted her words. Here I'am in the waiting room waiting for SH to get out of surgery and gettin all tearie eyed again. I admire all of you for being so thoughtful and wonderful friends. I wish I would have been on here to read some of animals posts. He sounds like he would have put a smile on my face for sure.:beer;
 
Thanks Kim... This is just one more thing that Animal did, he brought people together. I cant tell you how many people I now know because of Dave before and after. Let me know about dinner.
 
Great job Kim - You have such a large heart! Please extend our Merry wishes to Daves family. I never got to know him, but the comaraderie (sp?) I witness when he passed was one of the most amazing things i've ever seen! Many people revered him and I am sure I would have loved him like everyone else did.

$ sent-

:) 2fun
 
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