It's great to be able to help someone out like that - had to have made your day also!
Marlin
--- On Wed, 2/2/11, Hunter Hampton <airstreamingypsy@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Hunter Hampton <airstreamingypsy@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [A/S] New Ford eco-boost V-6
> To: AirstreamList@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 7:11 PM
> Marlin wrote:
> > We have pulled our trailer through Rocky Mountain
> National Park via
> > the Trail Ridge Road. The hoghest point is 12,183
> feet. At 11,796
> > feet is the Alpine Visitor Center - when we were there
> it started
> > sleeting, making for an interesting decent to our
> campground on the
> > west side of the park!
> >
> I've never had my trailer in RMNP but I did tow someone
> else's trailer
> there....
>
> From my journal this past summer....
>
> After a long day, the dogs and I were ready to get back to
> the
> trailer...... in Longmont.
>
> We were coming down a mountain, in the park, when I
> saw a Suburban and
> RV off on the side of the road. The Suburban's hood was
> open... uh oh...
> There was a guy with 3 little kids standing
> outside.
>
> I pulled up with Bruiser nose to nose with the
> 'burb.......
>
> The guy came over and I said, "I'm an RVer, what can I do
> to help?"
>
> He said his Suburban was "Dead"..... feet up in the air
> dead it seems.
> It wouldn't even try to start.
>
> I asked if he had called anyone... he said a Ranger stopped
> and knew the
> situation... there's no cell service up there. That told me
> he had no
> solution.
>
> "I can tow your trailer to a campground."
>
> He started to say no, but really was a bit frantic and I
> offered the
> only solution he had.
>
> Problem was, the Suburban was hooked up to the trailer....
> He had tow
> ropes. I drove down a couple of miles, and turned
> around and drove back
> up the mountain and backed in front of the 'burb.
>
> He unhooked them, and stuck his hitch ball in my
> truck's receiver....
> then gave me the signal and I pulled the Suburban
> far enough up the
> mountain where he could let it back up next to his
> trailer....
>
> Then I backed up to the trailer and he hooked it all up...
> His friend
> had arrived in his car so he stayed with the three kids,
> while I drove
> the guy and his trailer up the mountain to the campground
> where 62 boy
> scouts were waiting for him.....
>
> Seems he's the scoutmaster for a great weekend camp
> out..... and one
> very grateful guy.
>
> Before I left the park I decided to take another park road
> which was
> also beautiful, and it came out where I had gone in a few
> years ago.
>
>
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