Show Jeep Jeen JL Posse Aids Stranded On Jan 27 at 1115 pm p.m. the Bountiful City Jeep Posse re received received re- re cei ved a call from the Utah Highway Patrol requesting its assistance in searching for five lost skiers at the Brian Head Ski Sta Resort near Cedar City THE SKI patrol had requested that the avalanche cache which the Bountiful Jeep Posse keeps ready for Immediate movement anywhere it may be needed be moved to the Brian Head area for use in the search effort Two me members of ot the posse Keith and George Marvin Marvin Marvin Mar Mar- vin immediately responded to the call They were on the road with the cache within a matter of minutes THE CACHE arrived at the area at am a.m. Sunday and was ready to be put into action when word was received that the lost skiers had been found Then at 9 pm p.m. Feb 1 Commander Commander Commander Com Com- mander Eggett of the Jeep Posse received a call from the ful police requesting that the posse be alerted to search for fora a group of university students missing for several hours THE GROUP was reported to have been on an afternoon outing to the Bountiful foothills and was to return to Salt Lake before dark daik The Bountiful po posse was alerted At pm p.m. the first posse vehicle to find any sign of the lost group reported lights on the foothills east cast of Bountiful He arrived at the lights on the hill to find two men in a truck I near a young man lying in the snow He asked for help for his friends in the car which had rolled down the steep hill about yards A RADIO call for help directed direct direct- ed the other members of the posse to the scene where they found two couples at the wrecked automobile Two of the injured people were still in the car one girl with a compound leg frac- frac rac- rac tur and a wound on her hand A nan was lying upside down pinned in the wreckage with a severe laceration on his lower jaw The victims were removed from the car and moved to the posse ambulance within 20 minutes minutes minutes min min- utes and the trip down the canyon canyon canyon can can- yon began A road block set by the officers officers officers cers of the jeep posse at the bottom bottom bottom bot bot- tom of the canyon stopped each vehicle and checked for equip equip- ment THE SEARCHING members of the posse were informed by bythe bythe the officers and a group of ot ad advisors advisors advisors ad- ad visors from the National Ski Patrol that the entire activity was a practice alert and that the situation had been well taken care of Some of the members could not believe that all this was just for practice But all were re relieved relieved relieved re- re when the victims joined the posse for refreshments at atthe atthe atthe the clubhouse where a complete critique of the event was given by the visiting advisors |