Saddletramp
GOLD Star
Took a quick run last Saturday with @brices123 and @Fishbone60 to Bloody Basin and up FR18 to the beginning of Red Creek. Lots of people camping at 7 Springs and along the road. Since this was a last minute call all anyone brought was PB&J sandwiches and our personal snacks.
We ran in to three cowboys, complete with chaps and six guns riding along checking on cattle, didn’t think much about it at the time but 20 minutes later we run in to a helicopter about a half mile from Red Creek, sitting there with two jeeps with hoods up. This caused some curiosity, us in them and them in our being there. An old guy, looking like he didn’t have two nickels to rub together, asks if I have jumper cable. Yes I said. Are they long cables, he asked. About 18 feet I replied. Are they heavy he prodded? I replied about 10 pounds. He said, I meant gauge. I replied that’s what makes them heavy. A big smile and shout back to the folks by the helicopter that I had cables.
As it turned out, the helicopter had landed to check on the cowboys who were checking the ranchers cattle. When they got ready to leave the helicopter starting battery was dead and the needed a 24 volt jump hence the need for two sets of jumper cables. My landcruiser was too tall as was Brice’s but the two jeeps fit under the rotors so our cables and their batteries did the trick. Helicopter whined to life and took off but not before the older gentleman introduced himself as the owner of the Red Creek Ranch and was leasing land and running cattle in our favorite wheeling area and recently adopted trail. We gave him a CSC business card and he told me that if we ever needed anything to just stop in the ranch house and ask. I told him we had recently adopted the trail in partnership with TRAL and he was genuinely pleased.
video of the event
We ran in to three cowboys, complete with chaps and six guns riding along checking on cattle, didn’t think much about it at the time but 20 minutes later we run in to a helicopter about a half mile from Red Creek, sitting there with two jeeps with hoods up. This caused some curiosity, us in them and them in our being there. An old guy, looking like he didn’t have two nickels to rub together, asks if I have jumper cable. Yes I said. Are they long cables, he asked. About 18 feet I replied. Are they heavy he prodded? I replied about 10 pounds. He said, I meant gauge. I replied that’s what makes them heavy. A big smile and shout back to the folks by the helicopter that I had cables.
As it turned out, the helicopter had landed to check on the cowboys who were checking the ranchers cattle. When they got ready to leave the helicopter starting battery was dead and the needed a 24 volt jump hence the need for two sets of jumper cables. My landcruiser was too tall as was Brice’s but the two jeeps fit under the rotors so our cables and their batteries did the trick. Helicopter whined to life and took off but not before the older gentleman introduced himself as the owner of the Red Creek Ranch and was leasing land and running cattle in our favorite wheeling area and recently adopted trail. We gave him a CSC business card and he told me that if we ever needed anything to just stop in the ranch house and ask. I told him we had recently adopted the trail in partnership with TRAL and he was genuinely pleased.
video of the event
