To the Rescue!!

Every Sunday Riley and I have a tradition of going for a drive up either Farmington or Bountiful canyon. It was lucky we went up when we did, because the very next day there was SNOW covering up the pretty leaves.

We readied the Jeep for our adventure, and at the last minute put in a few blankets and the collapsible shovel from Riley's car. We stopped at my parents house to drop Benny off and I grabbed a bunch of treats.

We headed up the canyon and decided to go on an adventure on some trails we had never been on. We took a series of left and right turns and ended up getting pretty far up the back of the canyon. As we were driving we noticed a big white tent looking thing in the far off distance. We decided to go check it out. As we drove closer we realized that it was a truck! A huge Dodge truck was high-centered on a chunk of clay. Which is basically the same as ice! We had been tailspinning the whole way in 4WD! It was a kid our age and his girlfriend and they said they'd been stuck for nearly two hours and hadn't seen anyone. It was incredibly random that we were even there!

The boys hooked the two vehicles up by ratchet (sp?) straps and chains, but our light Jeep couldn't even budge it. We ended up driving them back down the canyon. We were going to just drop them off at the Chevron (these guys were from American Fork) while they waited for someone to come pick them up. But the guy had a pistol and a shotgun (deer season), and we quickly realized it wasn't a good idea to leave them at a gas station. So they came with us to my parents house while they waited. My dad let them borrow some sweats of his, since the poor kid was COVERED in red clay mud, and we all ate pie!

They were incredibly lucky we randomly came across them that day! They were preparing to spend the night up there, and it snowed the very next day. What a crazy experience!