I keep wanting to know more about the Search and Rescue team, and more about Glen's story. Here is what he told me and said it it is OK to blog it. Glen wrote:
The reason I volunteer for the trail alliance is that it is a way to meet the best people.
Luke, the president of Salmon Arm Search and Rescue used to work beside me and he now works at Canoe Forest Products.
Dave Pilling and I were riding up and clearing trees. My hip dislocated just trying to go up a steep pitch. I was using my new e-bike but I must not have set it up with enough power.
Dave is the one with the cell phone and the other half of the story. He told mom I swore a lot.
We had waited quite a while for S&R to show up and I was starting to shiver. Randy, the S&R dispatch was not giving an ETA and I didn’t want to go into shock so I sent Dave to take my bike and chainsaw down and bring up a tarp to keep me warmer. About 20 minutes later, he returned with the head rescue 1st aider. A few minutes later, Luke came up and said, “I should have guessed it was you Mr. Pilling.” The 1st aider took charge and said, “that is enough, leave him alone.” Then the whole cavalry showed up. They are a pretty tight group.
I think that is about all though I could add one more thing for memories keep coming in bits and pieces. Last year, just around the face of the mountain, I was clearing trail for the Lewiston Ultra. The organizer was helping me and she told me about seeing a lot of bear signs in the spring and asked if I knew where the bear den was. Funny how that memory came up when I was immobilized within sniffing distance.
Glen
I hope you are healing quickly so you can be back on the trails soon. As you laid on the ground alone, did you consider telling, "go, bear, go!"
ReplyDeleteI thought the same thing about yelling "Go, bear, go", a phrase I have said many times while on my feet and walking between houses, either in the Spring or in the Fall. Or maybe I was just thinking, it was Glen who taught me to yell, go, bear, go, since I had heard him yell it, just when he walked out on my porch one day.
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