Hey guy's just got back from dinner with Towstrap and his wife, Jim is in good spirits and ok just a little black and blue around his one eye! He's a very LUCKEY MAN !!!! I was right behind him when he basisclly fell off of a cliff into a river !!
Here is what I remember happened, I was the last in line on the road, Jim was in front of me slowley crawing down the trail along side of a river that was four jeeps wide and 2 to 4 feet deep in spot's, the cliff was aprox 30 feet down mostly soft wet dirt and grass but real steep !! I was just noticing jims left rear tire was a little to close to the cliff as I looked down to grab my CB mic. and looked back up to say somithing to jim about getting over a little the other way his KJ started to barrel roll over the edge of the 30 foot or so cliff, he rolled two or three times , it was like in slow motion, I couldn't get a word out of my mouth !!
I jumped out of my KJ and slid down the cliff into the water, Jims KJ was resting on it's top in 2 or 3 feet of water I was luckley able to open the passenger's door and found jim had released himself from the seatbelt and had his head above the water in the back seat area I tried pulling him out, after a couple hard pulls he poped out and stood up and said ( Im ok don't worry about it !!) Which is somthing jim would say!! I looked at his face and his right eye and side of his face was swolen and bleeding bad!! I looked up at the cliff and thinking how the hell are we going to get up there, Jim said he was alright, and he managed to climb the cliff himself and got some help from the other guys!! Thank's to every one in our group for helping, I have never seen half a dozen jeeps and one TJ with a trailer hall booty out of some tough terrain that fast, and Mitch for giving me his GPS with the qickest and closest directions to a hosipital!
While Jim and mysef were heading to the hospital all of the guys in our group managed to get ahold of the sheriff and the hosipital and let them know we were coming!! Mitch, Chis, Matt, Dustin and the other half dozen guy's and girl's retreved all 1 TON of jim's tool's ham radio equip. and alot of other stuff jim had inside of his KJ. I managed to get ahold of a Tow company and they got Jim's KJ out of the river and jim is wating to hear back from his insurance company this week !!
Jim had test's and was given a clean bill of heath and released a couple hours later from the hospital !! I thought he might get another black eye from his wife and son's when he got home last night but I think they were all happy and gratefull he was ok!!
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glad your ok! the jeep is replaceable! you on the other hand, are not 
