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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, May 3-5, 2017 B-7 The Park Record Young fisherman’s find reunites Eagle woman with photos from Vietnam trip Post Independent GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — Hailee Rustad knew not long after she came up for air on the Colorado River three years ago that she had lost some of her most precious recent memories, swept away in the rapid current and presumably gone forever. Just a couple weeks after a special trip to Southeast Asia with her best friend from college, Rustad was back home in Eagle and entertaining a cousin who was visiting from out of town when they and a group of friends decided to try paddleboarding for the first time. Strapped to Rustad’s head was the GoPro camera her mother gave her so that she could better document her big vacation and her many other adventures. “We got into some whitewater, and they made me go first because it was my idea,” Rustad recounted this past week. “I went straight toward the wall. …The nose of the paddleboard hit and I just went tumbling. “Fortunately, I came right back up. I was able to swim to the board, and we all just started laughing,” she said. She then realized what happened as she was watching the others take their turns running the rapid. She felt the top of her head and discovered the camera was gone, along with the plastic case it was in and the head strap. Worse yet, she hadn’t gotten around to uploading all of her videos and photos which were stored on the SD card inside the camera. “I immediately fell to my paddleboard and was in tears,” Rustad said. “The whole rest of the trip I just kept doing some self-talk, reminding myself, ‘It’s OK. It’s just a possession. I’m alive, and I have all my limbs. And I still have the memories in my head.’” Last week, for the first time since the fateful river adventure in June 2014, Rustad was able to scroll through the pictures and video-recorded memories from her time kayaking, swimming, biking and riding motor bikes in Vietnam. Also stored away on the card were images and video from a special mountain climb with a group of students Rustad helps teach and a mountain bike race for the young athletes she coaches in the Vail Valley’s Cycle Effect program. The happy reunion came about as the result of a big find by Camden Hassell, a seventh-grader at Glenwood Springs Middle School. Camden had been fishing in early April with his dad, Glenwood Springs Middle School teacher Roman Hassell, and some other family members on the Colorado River below the Shoshone dam in Glenwood Canyon. He was taking a break from fishing and was up along the riverbank kicking around looking for golf balls, which often float downstream from golf courses near Eagle. “I found a ball and reached for it, and right next to it I saw this black strap sticking out of a bun- where Rustad’s boyfriend, Ernest dle of willows,” he said. “I pulled Saeger, saw a familiar face. it out and it was a GoPro.” He sent a text message to RusThough its case was pretty tad telling her about the photos scratched up and caked in dirt, the and explaining that her GoPro camera was intact and appeared had been found and was still in to have survived the more-than working order. Saeger had done 20-mile float down the Colorado, work at the GoPro Mountain through two runoff seasons, and Games in Vail and already has over the dam below the Hanging contacted some of the area repreLake trailhead before it was de- sentatives to share the story. posited on the bank just upstream On the way to do some mounfrom the Shoshone put-in. tain biking in the Moab area with janelle lizy michelle “He’s always finding stuff: Saeger and friend Ashley Samek, ooh la la 3.5” x 5”, b&w ad “Permanent Makeup” knives, lures, you name it, he Rustad stopped by the Hassells’ just seems to find stuff,” Hassell house to retrieve her camera. said of his son. “My brother was “Talk about making someone’s DEER CREEK TITLE & INSURANCE with us when we started talking year,” she said while introducing about taking it home and seeing herself to Camden and giving what was on the card. He sug- him a big hug. gested I hang out with him when Then came the trip down we watch, because you might see memory lane for Rustad, who Michelle Huggins some footage you don’t want to had viewed the photos and video 435.659.4407 see. Maybe someone drowned from her trip only one other time when they lost it. You don’t while in Seattle with her college Confidence to close! know.” friend right after they had gotten When Camden and Hassell did back. Included were several mini dmichellehuggins@hotmail.com take a look, the last video was a testimonials about their experishort recording of Rustad and her ences in a new culture, along with friends getting ready to head out some laughs about renting motor on their paddleboard adventure. bikes and trying to learn how to But the more intriguing footage ride them in the chaotic city trafand images were those from the fic and across the Vietnamese Asia trip. countryside. “I thought, man, this is some Rustad and the Hassells also pretty important stuff to some- learned that they have a few body. We have to figure out who things in common, including an this belongs to,” Hassell said. “obsession,” Rustad said, over So they uploaded a few images hunting for golf balls. Before along with the final video clip parting ways, they agreed they’d to Facebook, at first via private like to get together sometime share before a fellow teacher sug- this summer for a barbecue and gested they make it public. a little tubing down the Roaring Then the post started getting Fork River. shared hundreds of times over They might even try to capture before making its way onto the some of the fun on Rustad’s rugEagle County Classifieds page, ged, old GoPro. SOME OF THE PETS AT NUZZLES & CO. LOOKING FOR LOVE These animals are available to be seen at the Nuzzles & Co. Adoption Center and Rescue Ranch. Our Adoption Center is open Monday through Friday from noon to 7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. It is located in the Tanger Outlets in Kimball Junction. Our Rescue Ranch is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 pm., and closed Sunday. The Rescue Ranch is located at 6466 N. Highview Road in Peoa. 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