Mission Reports
Mission Reports: Texas Creek Jeep
Wednesday the 22nd a team from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery went up Texas Creek west of Pueblo to recover a Jeep that slid off the trail and was sitting at a 30 degree angle. That is an uncomfortable amount of side tilt for most, and extremely close to the...
Mission Reports: Broken C-Clip
Thursday evening a team from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery went in on Slaughterhouse Gulch to assist a Jeep with a broken C-Clip. The rear axle had begun walking itself out of the axle. It took a bit of coercion to get back into the axle tube as the brakes...
Mission Reports: Miller Rock Hasty Team
Saturday the 5th a distress call came in via ham radio relay through the Colorado Connection. A 3rd party contacted dispatch to report a team member was on-scene with a vehicle that almost rolled over climbing the main obstacle by the river on Miller Rock Trail. The two were tethered...
Mission Reports: Longwater and Hackett
Thursday August 12th a Team from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery spent an extremely long day down on Longwater Gulch and Hackett Gulch recovering two vehicles. The first on Longwater was a Jeep Gladiator that flooded out and was inoperable. The team made the long steep climb up the mountain...
Mission Reports: Rolled TJ
Sunday the 8th a team from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery went up Garibaldi Road 356.1 (a spur off North Swan) to recover a TJ that rolled over coming down a very steep part of the trail. This was another very long operation above tree line. The team worked to...
Mission Reports: Grizzly Lake TJ
Saturday the 7th a team from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery spent a very long day on the Grizzly Lake trail recovering a TJ that rolled off the edge of the road about a week ago. The team utilized two vehicles to winch this back up onto the road, and...
Mission Reports: Kelly Flats SXS
Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery went up Kelly Flats trail west of Fort Collins, CO to recover a side by side that rolled near the top of "heart attack hill" earlier in the week. This mission had to be postponed due to the flooding in the canyon and local road...
Mission Reports: Moon Gulch Jeep
Sunday Afternoon a team went up Moon Gulch just outside of Rollinsville to recover a Jeep that got too close to the edge of the trail, and slid off in the wet conditions at the time. If you've ever been on moon gulch, there are portions of that trail that...
Mission Reports: Chinns Lake GMC
Also Saturday the 31st, a GMC Sierra was recovered from Chinns Lake with assistance from the USFS for traffic control. The truck had got hung up on a rock in the road, broken the transmission pan which in turn lost all the fluid, and was unable to move under its...
Mission Reports: Destroyed ATV
Saturday July 31st a team from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery went up Hamlin Gulch to recover an ATV that went off the side of the road. There was a significant debris field along the mountain side that had to be cleaned up while recovering this ATV for the owner....