Posts Tagged ‘mountains’
Analysis of What went Wrong for Jason Pede
I realize it is weeks after the fact, but I did promise an analysis of what went wrong with the Jason Pede misadventure through the mountains of Colorado in February. To refresh your memories, Jason Pede took a so called “shortcut” through the mountains of central Colorado in early February. He was trying to cut [...]
GETTING LOST IN THE WINTERTIME CAN BE FATAL!
My friend Jason Pede saved himself over the weekend of Feb 7th, after being stranded in the snowy mountains of Colorado for four days. He took a “shortcut” that his cellphone GPS recommended and was confirmed by a local resident. It almost cost him his life! Jason was transporting a rescue dog from southern California [...]
Hopefully on the road tomorrow
We have spent the weekend in Colorado Springs, Co. Our load is 27′ wide and therefore too wide to be allowed on the highways over the weekend. Tomorrow, we have to drive about 50 miles back to where we left it, and then we take it up into the high mountains southwest of Denver. That [...]
SLOW MOVING
Tonight we still are in Roswell, NM. We moved a whole 16 miles today. The driver worked about six hours trying to put a new u-joint on his drive shaft before he figured out that the yoke is so severely bent that he’s going to have to put it in the shop. Fortunately a couple [...]