Search & Rescue

The other week I was hanging out in the World Wide warehouse when John, one of my guide friends, came up and asked if anybody was familiar with the Gemini Bridges trail. I've ridden the trail quite a few times so I followed John as he told me that someone was lost out there without any flashlights (this was at 9:30 pm and the moon wasn't out). We met up with Randy, a guy from the single's branch, and we headed out in his Silverado pickup after a quick prayer. The people that were lost were from Canada along with a new river guide from Tag-a-long. They had lost their way in the dark after riding their bikes for five hours. Finally they found a place on the trail where they could barely get service on their phones. So the guide called the only other local that she knew, Randy, whom she had fortunately met just the day before. So, somehow they found their coordinates and we were able to find out that they were on a jeeping trail called "Metal Masher." In our Chevy Silverado we found out why it's called Metal Masher, even on the bypasses. After we had gone up the trail quite a ways and almost given up, we bumped into some jeepers that said they were out there looking for "three lost people." So we kept going and we later got a call from our lost friends saying they just saw our lights from the truck and to turn around! Finally we found them and took them back to their truck at the trailhead. We rolled back into town at about 3:30 am, but it was worth it! The next day John bought Randy a sticker that says "Metal Masher" to put on his truck as a joke.