slipinkramer
06-04-2014, 11:00 AM
Yesterday a made a short side trip on the way home from work to the Bald Mountain OHV near Shaver Lake, CA. What a great off road playground! I spent a couple of hours crawling up and down the rocks around the mountain, but it is huge and deserves a full day or 2 to explore it all.
On the way down the mountain I found an abandoned dirt bike leaning against a tree. A few minutes later I found the rider trying to walk down the rocks. He told me he had broken down there 6 hours earlier. He had an emergency GPS locator beacon transponder and had pressed the button several times, but nobody had come, so he was trying to hike out before dark.
He got in the Jeep and I drove him down the mountain to the highway where we found several Forest Service Rangers getting ready to mount a search on foot. Also, there was a Forest Service helicopter orbiting overhead. His emergency transponder had worked after all. By this time the sun was getting ready to set and they were all so happy that I found him so they didn't have to search in the dark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx4WHQo6A5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcchcyZMhNE
On the way down the mountain I found an abandoned dirt bike leaning against a tree. A few minutes later I found the rider trying to walk down the rocks. He told me he had broken down there 6 hours earlier. He had an emergency GPS locator beacon transponder and had pressed the button several times, but nobody had come, so he was trying to hike out before dark.
He got in the Jeep and I drove him down the mountain to the highway where we found several Forest Service Rangers getting ready to mount a search on foot. Also, there was a Forest Service helicopter orbiting overhead. His emergency transponder had worked after all. By this time the sun was getting ready to set and they were all so happy that I found him so they didn't have to search in the dark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx4WHQo6A5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcchcyZMhNE