Mission Reports
Mission Reports: Swamped Rigs!
A few operations to report on this week! The uptick in ice covered trails and snow recoveries continues. Strongly encourage you to NOT travel downhill on the snow covered trails unless you have the means to get yourself back up them. Numerous people have been trapped on the cold downhill...
Mission Reports: Empire and Kremmling
Happy Thanksgiving!!! Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery has seen an uptick in snow recoveries in the high country. These two missions were located near Empire and Kremmling with ice and snow on the trails. Both relatively simple operations to pull the vehicles back onto the road, or backwards where there...
Mission Reports: Rollover!
It's rollover weekend at Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery. Our awesome volunteers spent a couple days on the west slope recovering a couple trucks that went off the road when conditions were extremely wet and muddy earlier in the week. Both ended up being rollovers, all occupants were okay, but...
Mission Reports: Abandoned Vehicle Hackett Gulch
Saturday November 13th two teams from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery spent the day retrieving an abandoned Jeep ZJ from the bottom of Hackett Gulch. This was in cooperation with USFS as an official request to retrieve and recover the abandoned vehicle, and flat tow it to an area where...
Mission Reports: XJ and Tacoma
Couple of recoveries to post from over the weekend! First one is a Tacoma that slid off Geneva Creek Road in the snow. A pendulum style recovery to get it back on the road. Once recovered the team worked on getting everyone off the trail and back on pavement since...
Mission Reports: Craig Ram 2500
Sunday the 31st a team from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery spent the day in Routt County just south of Craig, CO pulling a Ram 2500 back onto the trail after they slid off earlier in the week. Even chained up, some times you can get into a situation where...
Mission Reports: Old Flowers Silverado
Monday afternoon, a team from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery went up Old Flowers Road west of Fort Collins to recover a Silverado that was having some kind of electrical issue. The owner reported that the alternator stopped charging while on the trail, so they turned around and attempted to...
Mission Reports: Mount Bross Snow!
Snow Recovery Season has begun!! Sunday the 10th, a team from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery went up Mount Bross to recover some vehicles that got hung up between snow drifts. They were unable to go forward or backwards without severe risk of sliding off the shelf roads and potentially...
Mission Reports: Abandoned 4Runner
Saturday October 9th, a team from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery spent the day outside of Bailey recovering an abandoned Toyota 4Runner. If this vehicle looks familiar to you, you would be correct. This is the vehicle that a missing teenager was driving earlier this summer. This story ended up...
Mission Reports: Rolled Jeep above treeline
Saturday the 25th, two teams from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery went up Leavenworth Creek outside of Georgetown, and connected over to Denarious Mine Rd 248.2I to recover a jeep that rolled a substantial distance off a shelf road. The vehicle made it about half way to the same road...