Tuesday, June 18, 2013

First responder and singing to Bob Dylan

Story number 999 about Steve being " Johnnie on the spot" or ever prepared for any incident: One time Steve, Richard, maybe Don (lot of years gone by, can't remember if all four of us were there!) and I were coming out of a couple day camp out in Canyon Lands. It was just dark and we were heading back home when we came over a rise in the road and there was a Chevy Blazer rolled over in the middle of the two lane road! There was a young woman laying there on the road and a couple others standing by her. The accident had just happened and we were the first people on the scene. Steve was driving and immediately pulled over and jumped out of the car and started helping. He started first aid on the person laying in the road and we started figuring out how and who to contact out in the middle of nowhere! The young lady was injured but it was not life threatening and the others had minor scratches and bruises and were shook up but were okay. No one could act quicker and think faster in an emergency than your father and husband! He was a sight to behold checking out that young lady for injuries as we helped him and the other people in the roll over.
Rich and I were talking again about things we miss about him and the adventure trips we were able to go on to the Wasatch, the Grand Tetons, the Wind Rivers, the Grand Canyon, the Sierra's/Tahoe region, the Uinta's, the West Desert area, the Sawtooth Mountains. I can still remember when Steve and I were young and had the energy to drive to Grand Targhee early in the morning from Provo to ski because Targhee had just had a great powder dump. All the way there and all the way back (in one day after skiing crazy all day), we sang along with Bob Dylan (I had a tape of his all time greats). We were hoarse when we got home, the skiing was fantastic and I can remember us skiing and stopping on a ridge and looking across to the Grand and saying we would climb it someday. Well, we climbed the Middle Peak of the Grand, but not the Grand itself. All four of us did that climbing trip along with some friends of Steve's from work in Idaho Falls.
Memory from Von Phillips. 

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