I hope Dave at least paid for gas....he should know better! Next time your walking to the gas station buddy!
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Yes i took care of this
But anyways on to the rest of the story........
After saying goodbye to the Kennedy Family i left headed over to the wash by Marina and had been messing around over there. been doing OK for about 2ish hours.
Then i got the idea to use the GPS and back track my way over to CJ Hill (been logging all the points we been to on Sat.) and then back track my way to the phone booth area to see what the road looked like over there.
and then "maybe" head up there before heading home.
Was making my way just fine out there got the to the Waterfall so i went up the easy way (for me at least) then i got confused on which way to go.
Thought i was supposed to go the right past Stic-o's rock
: but in hindsight i was supposed to stay to the left.
Mistake #1 I did not get out and check the trail ahead just went down it cold turkey. (guess got alittle too confident)
Mistake #2 was not paying attention to my line ended up to far to the right
and them got the right side tires up on a berm and then the right front dropped off a 1-2 ft ledge. Which left me teetering on the left front, right rear tires.
at this point cause of the angle i was pointing down and teetering i stomp on the brakes trying to figure what to do next. well I waited too long to make a decision. at this moment i was trying to inch the truck down. With the steering locked up trying to get it to turn to the right (would only turn left)
When the motor began to sputter.
So the motor dies from a lack of fuel and would not restart. so i tried to continue inching the truck down without the motor and i lost the battle with the steering it went full left lock on me as i was doing this. And then the tire got stuck in a berm on the left side.
so there i was stuck and the light fading fast figuring out to do well i had nothing in the truck with me that would help me out recovery wise.
So start scanning around the CB to see if i could pick up people near by me and get help that way. No Luck there.
and then i walked back up to the top of the Waterfall and started scanning the landscape. Nothing kept hearing motors in the distance but think they all were on the other side of the ridge line.
so i grabbed the ol Cell Phone to see if i had service there (which i did barely)
but i had recently gotten a new phone and have not transferred all the numbers in to the new phone.
So i tried to Call Ted (Tbars4) first (thought i memorized his number NOT)
so no luck there looking through my contacts. The only other number i had was for Gregg (gmanpaint) so i called him and told him what happen and he got me the number for Dave (DB1) since I knew he was the closest to Truckhaven so I called him up and told what happen and where I was at so he said ok he would come out.
about 7:50pm he made it out there. and size up the situation we first tried pulling me back up the trail but that was not happen cause i could not turn the wheels and the left front was stuck on a smaller ledge.
So we decided to pull the truck down and sideways off the hill and that worked to a point but the front bumper got stuck against the hill and we could not drag it sideways any further so i tried to start the truck back up since we were on flatter ground, click click click yup the Battery went dead
So Dave had to jockey his truck around again so we could get the battery cables hooked to my truck.
Well my truck fired right back up and then was able to get it out under it own power again finally.
and then on the way out Mark (Maniak) calls me to see if i still needed help DOH totally forgot that Mark was Closer than Dave cause he was camping near by.
but by that time we headed out of the area. so we made our way back to Marina Dr. and then up to the Casino hooked up Dave with some gas for coming out to help me and then i aired up the tires and headed home myself.
oh well
haha
I only hope someone is there for me when I need it.
