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Lucky Stuck Quad Rider At Hollister Hills OHV Park

submitted by newtboy

8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago

YT-
Cruising along on a solo ride in the Renz area, I see this helmet in the trail...whaaa? I probably would have never seen the quad up there if I hadn’t seen the helmet.
He said he was up there for about 5 min's before I found him there.
The trail he was on was just above, so I’m pretty sure when he rolled off the trail, his quad rolled 270 degrees before pinning him (lucky it pinched him there instead of his chest or head, yikes!)
You can't really hear much (unless you crank the volume waaay up. Don't forget to turn it back down if you do!), so here's some of what happened:
I warned him that I might not be able to lift it very high, and that I might have to let it back down on him, which happened, and that clearly hurt in a big way. Sorry!
I gathered these rotting logs I found for him to stuff underneath to prop it up next time I lift, but once I got it up a ways, I guess he decided he had to get the heck out of there, and got most of the way out. One more small lift after that, and he was out (and his legs were probably very numb).
I was pretty winded from lots of fast singletrack before I even got there, I gotta get in shape for these kinds of days!
Too bad the first guy to come along is old, weak, and has a bad back.

3 Comments

Quads have quite a bit of ground clearance. I wonder if letting it roll over on top of him (gently, not letting it bounce) would have been an option. Piled up the wood to either side of him in case the clearance was too tight.

Also, throwing his helmet down at the trail was a stroke of genius or a gargantuan portion of luck...

Whether he tossed his helmet or it came off in his crash, either way he was certainly lucky it stopped on the trail.

Quads have quite a bit of ground clearance. I wonder if letting it roll over on top of him (gently, not letting it bounce) would have been an option. Piled up the wood to either side of him in case the clearance was too tight.

Also, throwing his helmet down at the trail was a stroke of genius or a gargantuan portion of luck...

I half-expected him or an accomplice to come and take the guy's bike while he was distracted trying to help or after he pulled himself out from under the thing.

Nice to see people with some humanity once in a while.

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