| OCR Text |
Show THE ZEPHYR MARCH 1991 headed toward the Yellow Cat She too passed up the numerous potholes that were full from recent rains. The sun beat down from a cloudless sky. In the afternoon, the hallucinations came. She saw a trailer, a small, silver house trailer parked at the foot of a small mesa. In front of the trailer, she saw her husband; he was sitting on a wooden stool He was Idly whittling away at a piece of wood. Nellie called to him, and he looked up and smiled and waved. Elated, she ran down the hill to her waiting husbands arms. But the treacherous sun blurred her vision and as she got closer, her husband and the wooden stool and the sliver house trailer began to float on the siperheated air. And then before her very eyes, they all turned to smoke and were gone. Nellie sat down on a slab of rock and cried. Spoiling the Fun - Rangers to the Rescue - Step 5 At 4 p.m. on Tuesday, exactly twent-fo- ur hours after Nellies disappearance, she was still missing. But at noon, two members of the search team picked up a set of tracks. ed Four more of us were flown In by chopper. Together we her tracks until we leap-frogg- found her footprints turn unexpectedly up a particularly barren side canyon. We could see a large Juniper tree ahead and each of us was convinced we'd find her - quite dead -- beneath that tree. She wasn't there. We climbed out of the canyon and when, a quarter mile further, we looked over the edge of a rocky mesa, and saw a little lady In a navy blue Jump suit and. a white cap, none of us could believe tt. Nellie thought we were Just another hallucination. Nellies Epilogue As It turned out, Nellie did not want to get lost She had done It quite by accident So the Park Services efforts to find her were entirely appropriate and greatly appreciated. PART TWO Getting Stranded - part 1 We call this particular dilemma: getting rlmrocked. This only occurs to young It means that someone has managed to boys between the ages of eight and twenty-tw- o. maneuver himself along a sandstone wall where there's a lot of exposure (that means, If you slip and fall, youll probably break something). They have usually became terrified by their predicament and are absolutely frozen with fear. I generally found this kind of situation particularly annoying because It required I that drag out All the ropes and climbing hardware, and more than that, because It meant I had to vertical drop to rescue some bonehead who had hang my butt over a hundred-fo- ot no business putting him or me In this predicament Staying Stranded Arches Realty (801) Joe Kingsley 690 South Main Mnah, I tali N 259-569- 3 Outside Utah iS32 FAX (801) - part 2 used to differ with my supervisors on this one. Staying stranded meant that I had to do the whole rescue bit - haul the ropes and gear above the victim, establish anchor points, set up a belay, rig a harness for the victim, rappel down the cliff, hook onto the 259-593- 0 I al mcleod victim, blah, blah, blah. Now, of course, when the stranded was way up there - say 50 to 100 feet up -there was nothing to do but go by the book. But how many times did I come upon a rlmrocked climber, trembling with fear, all of twelve feet above the ground? The plan Id proposed to the chief ranger went like this: jd yell up to the victim..'. ( , "Why dont you ust Jump? ashen-face- d, d, sweat pouring off his body. "Are Hed look down at me, mel You scream. to have you crazy? hed help Id say, "Look, Its only ten or twelve feet The sand Is soft Hell, the branches from that Juniper'll probably break your fall. Come on... be a good sport Oh Godl hed cry. "Somebody save me. At this point my plan was to pull out my EMT Kit This would convince him... "Look here, Id say. "These are air splints. If you break anything, I'll Just slip one of these on you and off well go to the hospital... And see this? This Is a cervical collar, on the you sustain a little old neck Injury. So what cfya say? Just close your eyes electrical contractor 259-709- 0 po box 1423 moab . bug-eye- C AL CouLb GOOD MaT fM 6EW ?lACtb SO OF A HE HAS id 1HF... FuMiTENTlARy. off-cha- nce and go for tt, and try to land on your feet I knew I was wasting my time. The chief ranger nixed my Idea outright..dldnt even want to discuss It Later, I revised my strategy and suggested the park get one of those nets that firemen use to catch victims who leap from burning buildings. No way. Recently, taking a cue from that guy In Denver, I thought maybe the park could establish a policy that required rlmrocked tourists to stay up there until the Broncos win a football these days. game. But then, what the hell do I care, Im an ex-ran- ger that tt Is every Americans right (foreigners too) and, In some cases, to an obligation get hopelessly lost In our beautiful national parks. Dont be a windshield tourist Get out In the backcountry and learn to really appreciate a glass of Iced tea. Get to stuck on a rocky ledge and watt for a sympathetic ranger (there are others, ye he with a while sizes vulture Look come along and offer assistance. you turkey up for dinner. Come on, klds...show a little gumption. I firmly believe Just-llke-- Civilized tours in me) eye-to-e- uncivilized terrain stop by our new headquarters at: 38 So. 100 W. or (800) (801) and please: STAY ON THE TRAIL! 259-873- 2 an exhibit of photographs by Rental bikes by IBIS Tandems available TOM TILL can be seen this month at the Dan OLaurie Museum 118 E. Center 845-BIK- E DAY TOCJRS and are our speciality MCJLTI-DA- Y ssw min sYOLim |
