Monday, December 15, 2008

Christmas Tree Hunt

So my December started out kind of snowy. About three years ago Jason and I and his family started a tradition of going to get our christmas tree. This year was no difference but we got with Jason's older brother Rowdy in Manti however we were at the end of a very long line and the Manti rangers ran out of tree permits to get our trees there so instead we went to 12 mile canyon, where Jason and Jeremy hunts with the McNeill family every year. We got the permits and were headed up the mountian by twelve o'clock. Jason and Jeremy had new where there were some good looking trees were. They just had happened to be on the back side of the mountian called baldy. We were getting close to where the tree was when we got stuck. Jason had Jeremy pull around him to pull us out but got stuck him self. We tried to get out for about an hour and the more we tried the worse it got. It was about two o'clock and Jason and Jeremy decided the more important thing to do was to find a way to get everyone off the mountian. They were only gone for about forty-five min. When a fourwheeler came around the corner with Jeremy on the back . Jason was on the next one that came five min. later. They helped pack down the snow enough for Jason to get the Jeep out but as he was driving it up a hill the antifreeze hose came off and we lost all of the antifreeze so we could not drive it the rest of the way down with out over heating the engine and blowing it up so we were back to square one. The family on the fourwheelers offered to take us in to Mayfield. It was very nice of them to do this seems they had to rearrange everything in there cars to get us all in. As soon as we got to Mayfield Jeremy and Jason called Rowdy in Manti and he came and picked us up and took us to his house. Rowdy, Jason, and Jeremy got ready and went back up this was about 5:30pm. Jesse, Jessica's boyfriend, called his parents and they came to pick us up in Manti. Jason and Jeremy did not get home until about 7:00pm the next day. On the up side the did get the christmas trees.