Once again the weather for a Saturday wasn't nice enough to go boating so we decided to take a drive to Silver City - to scope out the deer for Adrian's first deer hunt this fall - to get out of the house. Anthony drove us all the way there and most of the way along the mountains once we arrived. We were surprised to see there was still a fair amount of snow in several places. At one point we could not go through the snow because it was too deep (of course Gary had to try first though), nor could we go around it, so we got out and walked for a little bit. We never did see any deer. On our way back down we saw an abandoned old mine house and stopped to check it out. The terrain is so rocky we can't imagine how it would have been for them to get all the mining stuff up there. You can see parts of tracks and carts, old mine shafts, and buildings. The one house we stopped to check out if we were quiet you could hear bubbling water. It was strange. There wasn't any snow around the house and we couldn't see the water but you sure could hear it. The first picture is at the first mine we came to. You can see the snow and it was really melting so they weren't able to go down to the mine as it was full of water.
On our way back down we ended up in the middle of a 4 wheelin' caravan of jeeps. At one point we came to a complete stop and people were jumping out of their jeeps, a lady was packing a big tow rope up on her shoulders, and jeeps were turning around, we weren't exactly sure what was happening. That is when we saw the truck stuck in the mud with all the dogs in the back. Not including us and the truck that was stuck, there were 8 other vehicles and a 4 wheeler that were stopped. It was quite the sight to see. Gary was commenting that this was totally making all those guys/ladies day. This is what they live for. We were laughing at all the people standing around like this was one big show. One lady had her blanket wrapped around her smoking her cigarette standing back observing, several had out cameras and camcorders so of course we had to join and tape all the commotion as well! It was pretty funny. Hopefully you enjoy the video and this isn't one of those "You had to be there" stories. First they tried pulling the truck out with a chain & tow rope, second they tried a wench, but that only succeeded in pulling the jeep closer to the truck rather than the truck out. That is when the 2nd jeep pulled into action. They hooked one wench through the hitch on the truck and back onto the wench and then the 2nd jeep hooked its' wench to the first jeep. Finally they had success! It is a good thing all of these jeeps came along when they did because the truck had a chain hooked around a rock to the side of him and that was how he was trying to get out.
I am not near as good at everyone else telling stories but hopefully you get a kick out of the video!
