Bountiful Canyon, Sunday Drive

After church today, Ben & I decided that we needed to get away and go on a "sunday afternoon drive." Well we headed up Bountiful Canyon. Well we get almost to the top and we come to a small patch of snow, (by small I mean about 50 to 80 feet). Ben puts the good old trooper into four wheel drive and we get about half way up. He then puts the tropper in reverse and gets to the bottom of the snow patch and decides that he wants to try it a second time. Well this time we get a good "go" at it and make it almost all the way to the top. On our way back down this time we end up sideways and STUCK. Thats right we got the trooper stuck. Right off the bat we do the reverse then drive thing, trying to get out of the rut that we were in. Then Ben tells me to get in the drivers seat and put it in reverse as he is trying to push...lets just say that I wasn't grasping the concept on this one. So then this nice man on a dirt bike stops to help us. We then tried the reverse system again with both guys pushing on the trooper. Still NOTHING! The only thing that we had to dig ourselves out at this point was a hammer, so away Ben goes. At this point the guy on the dirt bike says that he is going to ride to the bottom and send a buddy up with his truck to help pull us out.

So Ben & I kept trying to get it out. After a few minutes 2 more guys come. The first guy to approach us asked me "Hey, Are you guys stuck?" I really wanted to say NOPE! But I said yes. So he got off his 4wheeler and helped Ben. The next thing I know is Ben is hooking up the tow ropes to this guys 4wheeler so he can try and pull us out. Still no luck. So that guy takes my cell number (because Ben's was dead) and says that he is going to ride down and get his truck but he will call us when he gets to the bottom so that he can see if we still need him.

After he left, Ben finally dug down far enough that he went and found some rocks to get under the tire so that we could get out of this huge rut and whole that we were in at this point. We finally get the rock down far enough and Ben gets in the trooper and tries to back up the trooper and what happens next was no surprise to me...NOTHING... So the digging with the hammer continues...Finally on the third attempt of getting the rock into place, Ben in the drivers seat, and me pushing on the trooper at this point we get out of the mess that we were in.

It took about on hour from start to finish, after we get all situated and back in the trooper and start heading down the canyon the first thing that we see is The PARK RANGER coming to the rescue. It was kind of funny to be honest. Luckily we didn't need him to help us because he wasn't the sweetest person. It was a fun adventure, while Ben was busying digging away I told him how it reminded me of the time, when I was a little one, and my family & I had gone one a drive through Devils Canyon and we went off the road and we had to build up a rock wall to get out. But needless to say it was definitely a fun sunday afternoon!