[Az-Geocaching] "Obsessed geocacher found stuck in mud, film at 11"

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(disclaimer: the following is meant in FUN, but has an important
message imbedded in the sarcasm. Please remember that I have had to
deal with people who go where they shouldn't and get stuck. It
happens.) :-)

Yeah, that's a smart idea, Scott. Go in the morning when the mud is
"still frozen" (i.e. ICE). Drive on ICY dirt roads, that's a great
idea. (Hope you have good comprehensive insurance!! :-)) Oh, be sure
to go WAY back in the boonies, at least 8 miles from the nearest paved
road. Stay long enough for it to warm up enough for the ICE to turn
into impassable mud.

And be sure to be out of cell phone and Ham radio (if applicable)
range, so that the folks you hopefully told where you were going to
will wait until well after dark to report you missing. Please do this
in Yavapai County, (or Coconino Co, we get called to help them alot,
esp in the winter) so I can be called out in middle of the night and
the freezing cold to help search for you. We WILL find you,
eventually, so let's hope you also were smart enough to come fully
prepared, (food, water, warm clothes) onto the ICY mud. Then we can
have MORE fun stories to tell about silly people who go out and get
hopelessly stuck in the ice and mud! :-) 

And, when you are out driving on the very deeply rutted dirt roads,
remember those ruts that are currrently making your life and forward
progress very uncomfortable, if not impossible, were the result of
some other goofy person deciding to go out and drive on icy, wet muddy
roads. Ruts come from tires. Tires come from vehicles, driven where
and when they really shouldn't be. Nobody grades these back roads.

And please remember that when a road is closed, it is closed for a
GOOD reason. Vehicles get stuck. Tires make ruts. 

PS. BE sure to have enough cash along to pay for the heavy-duty 4
wheel drive wrecker that the Sheriff will be happy to call for you,
once we find you.

All of the above is said in the spirit of fun sarcasm and silliness!!
:-) Altho, it has been true in the past. And we do laugh and tell all
our friends about these kinds of searches, as long as nobody got hurt
or died. Then we don't laugh, we cry and feel really bad. 

End of sacrcastic, but true, comments. PLEASE everybody, be careful in
winter conditions. Safety first.

Trisha 
Yavapai Co. Jeep Posse
Search and Rescue



On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Brian Cluff wrote:

> 
> On Monday 16 December 2002 01:12 pm, trisha@brasher.com wrote:
> > You would have to inquire at the local FS office where you want to
> go,
> > that would be my best advice for local conditions. And I would be
> very
> > careful even if there isn't much snow but it is muddy. Getting
stuck
> > is very easy if it is muddy. If it isn't too wet, and no storm is
> > approaching, you are probably OK.
> 
> You could always try and hit the caches in the morning when the mud
is
> still 
> frozen, that is if it got that cold the night before.
> I had a great time in my new truck this last weekend while going
along
> on an 
> elk hunt, that is till about 1pmish when it started to get muddy and
I
> slid 
> into a rock and banged up my 1 week old nurf bars :(  at least now I
> don't 
> have to worry about banging them up anymore :)
> 
> Brian Cluff
> Team Snaptek
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