January 20, 2007
It was a beautiful day for the Iron Mountain Road Patrol.
The sun was out, there was no wind and little to no snow and we had a good turn
out for this year's Winter Patrol.
Tim W was this year's Jeep Master with Tom M riding shotgun. Scott & Laura V
drove up in their Jeep, followed by Glene R in a Blazer and Scott D with his son
James and prospective members JP & his wife Carole in his fairly new TJ
Unlimited.
Jim & Vicki D with their granddaughter Stasha and her friend Ashley came up
in the second group with prospective member Lee D and his son Stephen in his
Silver TJ and Gary K and Marie in Gary's new Red TJ Rubicon giving us a
total of seven Jeeps.
Stasha and Ashley went to work right away handing out driving
information and counting vehicles at the Mormon Emigrant Trail Visitors
Information checkpoint.
The first group to go out and check the Mormon Emigrant Trail
consisted of Tim & Tom, Scott & Laura Lee and his son and Jim with
Stasha & Ashley.
It wasn't long before we found four girls stuck on ice in a two wheel drive Ford
Explorer. They were trying to get to Kirkwood to visit family and friends and
had been waiting for help for over two hours.
Stasha and Ashely finally found a small spot of frozen snow
and loaded the trailer to take home.
Later in the day Dana, Darlene and Jerry Sr. came out to help
with search and rescue.
Tim W, Tom M and prospective member Lee D where already on the scene when the
CHP helicopter located the stranded vehicles on the upper part of the Mormon
Emigrant Trail. Apparently the travelers used their GPS and MapQuest and where
informed that the Mormon Emigrant Trail was a short cut to Highway 88. Gary K
and prospective member Lee D went in their Jeeps to help recover the trapped
vehicles. The four Jeeps spent most of the afternoon extracting vehicles from
the snow.
