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Had to go rescue a friend this past weekend....

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adnedarn

I'm growing CPs in the Desert of Tucson, Az
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So this past weekend, my brother had stopped by to say hey and he soon got a call from a friend of his saying he was stuck on the back side of Mt. Lemmon... Luckily my brother had been to this particular spot before and so knew pretty much where he was. We took his Chevy 2500HD and my Dakota 4x4 (we off road safely and in pairs) Once we got there (where he definitely should NOT have been!) we managed to get Ron's truck turned around in order to hook up to their vehicle, but I had to back up the long hill to get back to the top of this trail. Here is what we saw once we got there and parked... (You really can't get an idea of the angle of this hill...)

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Here is once we got the other vehicle back up to the top of this hill that they had been working for 4 hours to do.


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Turns out, that vehicle is a front wheel drive 4banger...He should not have been even close to this spot. He destroyed a motor mount and banged up the bottom pretty well.

It's pretty nice up there too =)

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On the way back out of the mountain, I slammed on my brakes as I saw this in the dirt road

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a bit further down the road, this guy was hanging out in the middle

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Here is a quick vid of me backing up the hill as my brother tows *cough* drags *cough* the other vehicle up the hill. Gives a little bit better perspective on the angle of this trail.


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Sorry 'bout the pics, they were taken from my phone.
Andrew
 
Awesome job, Andy! You were a hero :D
That shot is just GORGEOUS!! I didn't know Arizona could have so much green :lol:
Yay for braking for critters!
Especially for that nice Arizona Black Rattlesnake. It's a beaut! :awesome:
 
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male Aphonopelma chalcodes (Arizona Blonde) tarantula wandering, looking for a mate.

Nice pics!
 
Thanks for the spider ID. I think the snake is a Arizona black rattle snake. Wish I would have taken my real camera... I would have been able to get closer pics. But that's as close as I was going to get to either with my phone! :-)) For fun, here is a map using GPS coordinates of where we saved them from (green arrow). To get there, you need to drive north to Oracle and then back around the back of the mountains... Then through the trails to that location. Round trip was somewhere around 140 miles.

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Wow. Those are some super cool critters, and a beautiful countryside!
 
That spider looks huge, as big as the rattle snake!! SCARYYY!!!!
 
wow 140 miles off road ,did you say how long the trip took , you are definitely Hero, they may have not made it out of that situation:nono:
 
Not all of it was off road. When you look at the map above, assume I'm somewhere around where the two yellow lines intersect at the bottom left, then had to drive north to Oracle, then from there the rest was off road. I think it was like 3 hrs just to get there, the back side of mount lemmon is a one way road, although we were definitely making time.... And they most definitely would not have made it out, and where they were, I doubt anyone else would have driven by any time soon.
 
140 miles offroad isnt much of anything out west.....during the 6 week hunting season i will put in 1000-1500 off paved road miles on....some are nice gravel, alot are 2 rut tracks where if you get stuck there is no calling a tow truck and if its real muddy there is no calling a freind, if the rope aint long enough to where one vehicle is on fairly dry ground the vehicle sits till either it dries out or the ground freezes.....

lots of land and few ppl out west where Andrew and i are, though im on the northern edge and he is close to the southern edge.....which is why off-roading is popular out here :D....ive basically have 4 vehicles, all are 4x4's, 3 see alot of off-road driving, 1 doesnt but its still needed for traveling in the winter due to snow and ice......
 
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