Night in the Wild

Most of you already of heard, the computer in my jeep went out again this time far out in the mountains. It was a beautiful day sunny, a friend and mine set out to enjoy the beautiful Zuni Mountains, than around 230 pm the jeep quit running of course no cell service so we hike to a higher place where we finally was able to contact some people we needed help and than we lost service even after hiking higher up, Notified the hospital is they hadn't heard back from us by 6pm here was the GPS coordinates send someone to look for us. Around 5pm we headed back to the jeep to wait and wait and wait. The problem was that the jeep was in a gully and hard to see after it got dark we flashed our headlights off and on every 30 minutes, than at last headlights we honk we yelled and flashed our lights and the lights turned the other way. We settled in to the fact that we were there for the night and planned how we were going to stay warm we rearranged and rearranged the jeep trying to get comfortable. We found that moving around warmed us up. I knew the worse was yet to come around 4am which would be the coldest part of the night. Around 3pm we woke up shivering and than was the only time I thought we might not make it thourgh the night, knowing it would certainly get colder. I fell asleep again and dreams of hot showers and hot tubs next thing I knew it was 6am and still dark but knowing that the sun would soon be up, I knew we would make it. At 8am it was warm enough to start our hike out of the canyon and try to get to the main road. stay tune for part 2