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Sitting and Day Dreaming => Mud Puddle => Topic started by: Brad Young on August 07, 2020, 07:19:23 AM
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Older daughter Katie had what can only be described as a really, really bad day yesterday.
She was supposed to help guide a trip into Yellowstone. On the drive in, she hit something on the dirt road and literally ripped out the sidewalls of her two right-side tires. With one spare, she was stuck until she could get a tow.
It took eight hours to arrange a tow and AAA wouldn't cover it because it was way back on a dirt road.
She spent most of that eight hours on the phone, frustrated by bureaucracy, remoteness and the randomness of two blown out tires (she never did find what caused the blow-outs).
Hungry, tired and unhappy, she made more than one call to AAA. Although they couldn't send anyone out, they did connect her with tow companies. They also called the local sheriff who in turn called the Yellowstone National Park Rangers. Katie only knew that she'd talked with AAA.
Hours into the whole ordeal a National Park Ranger drove up, checking to make sure she was OK. Oh, and he brought a "care" package to help her out while she waited. Literally the ranger brought food, drink and a book. Out of the blue, just to make sure a stranded person was better off while she waited for help:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50199112146_e166b306e7_c.jpg)
What an up moment in an otherwise crappy day. There really are some good people in the world. We here know that too, since we also know Park Service employees who go the extra mile.
She ended up getting the tow and then spent the night in her car at the parking lot of a Les Schwabb tire store. She getting new tires now and will be OK soon.
I asked her if I could share her story with Gavin and Alacia and the crew here.
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Bummer, but that's a cool ranger!
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Nice story...glad to hear she is okay.
Funny how it’s who you know or who people know.....At least the sheriff knew someone who would do something....too bad they didn’t have a spare tire.
I hope she gets to do some climbing there.
I was once an over due climber on the grand Teton, my buddy was concerned. His girlfriend “knew” some rangers...
So as we are stumbling to our camp I see a park service helicopter circling around....that couldn’t be me...
Once at the lower saddle everyone was looking at us..what?
A guy greeted me, a ranger, well not any ranger, but Renny Jackson, the head climbing ranger!!
Sadly, there was no helicopter ride off.
Another story for me to write out....
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I'm glad the Sheriff was near.
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Awesomeness. I hope her next trip goes better.
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I heard Katie has recently become a llama wrangler/dangler.
Seeing that rhyang seems to have left the mud n crud fold some years ago, perhaps Katie could join the Forum and take on that moniker.
I'm sure she's got some good stories to tell and the winters are long in Montana.
Harvesting dental floss doesn't take that much time either.
Raisin' it up
Waxin' it down
In a little white box
That I can
Sell up town
By myself I wouldn't
Have no boss
But I'd be raisin' my lonely
Dennil floss
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Katie’s new ride in winter will be a Polaris RMK Khaos 163 or 174.