October 4th, 2020 Rolled Xterra - Warden Gulch - Keystone, Colorado

Sunday October 4th two teams spent the day at the very end of Warden Gulch Trail east of Keystone recovering a Xterra that rolled approximately 6 times off the trail.
This was an extremely complicated pull. Due to the steep terrain and instability of the shelf road above the vehicle, the safest route to winch was just over 150 yards north to a wide stable flat spot. While we prefer to always stay on the trail, safety had to preside on this one and we took a handful of vehicles approximately 100 feet off trail to minimize further risk of injury to any of the team members.
Team 1 arrived first and began assessing the pull, reseating beads on the driver side tires, and working to pull the vehicle down the boulder field and back up the final hill to the trail.
Once up the hill, Team 2 took over rigging the vehicle for transport down to pavement where a tow truck could be arranged by the vehicle owner.
This operation was just shy of 12,000 feet in elevation, and took 8 solid hours of rigging lines and winching to get it on the trail, as well as an additional 90 minutes to dead tow it off the mountain. Outstanding teamwork by both teams pushing through an extremely tiring day at elevation to make this a success!
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[@RideRevival_Outdoor]

so glad to see this new chanel. love the old one. just got a solid name and logo to rep. best of luck going forward. love your work!

[@Colorado4x4RescueandRecovery]

this is the official org channel (this is Justin typing this comment), the other one is my personal vlog style channel that covers anything I want to record.

[@NigelNaughton]

Crazy!!!! 😰😭 No story behind this?

[@Mrtojo]

wow

[@Colorado4x4]

Holy crap man. Looks like they got to that mine and were trying to turn around and went off the edge?

[@Colorado4x4RescueandRecovery]

essentially yes, instead of backing down (also complicated) turning around prompted the rollover.

[@Colorado4x4]

@@Colorado4x4RescueandRecovery crazy. I’m glad they were ok