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June 18, 2003
I'm out of a rut....
Yay!!! We got my truck out. Here are the details of the end of my sorted story. At 8am this morning I left the house with the AAA guy with the hopes that this would be easy. Early on he told me, because my truck was off-road, AAA wouldn't cover it, but they (the towing company contracted by AAA), could help me for $150/hr. The guy, with a thick Australian accent, seemed confident we could get it. As we got to the bottom of the hill I was over, he stopped and said the pickup truck wouldn't make it over the hill. We walked to the top and when he saw the truck, he immediately knew he was over his head. He said he would need to call another guy at the towing company who had more experience in this area. The problem was that no other vehicle could get safely within a good distance of my truck. There was a big, steep hill, with lots of lose dirt that he would have to drive over, then another 100' on a narrow, narrow road with lots of soft sand. Me and the Ausie drove back to the 395 to wait for the other guy. He showed up 20 minutes later and informed me that at least 5 people a year get stuck up where he thought I was. His tune changed once he saw where my truck actually was. The last guy that got stuck up there was just at the top of the hill, not nearly as far down the road as I was. They'd never seen anyone that far down the road. At this point the guy with all the experience said he had some ideas, but we'd need to go back to Mammoth to get more supplies and talk to a guy with even more experience, Sean. Back in Mammoth, Sean just couldn't stop talking about how much this was going to cost. It'd take 3 people and maybe many many hours. His estimates escalated over the $1000 mark. They had other stuff to do first, so they drove me home for a couple hours. At home I talked to Bruce and my roommates and we decided we would go back to try and get it out. Thanks to Bruce's engineering efforts and hours of digging, we built a road for my truck to get out on. After 3 hours, I was out.As a reward I took them all out to dinner. They saved me a lot of money and were true friends to come out and help for so long.
Posted by wonko at June 18, 2003 08:15 PM
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Skip the labor and show me the baby!!!! Where are the pictures?????
Posted by: obigabu at June 20, 2003 09:01 AM
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