As I was coming back from a job in a nearby town I decided to take a short cut over the mountain. Let the dogs run and enjoy the fresh snow at 9000 feet.

On my way down I came across a Jeep Patriot off the side of the road, sitting at a 45 deg angle. No one was around, so I took a few pics and left my info in case the owner came back.

When I got to the bottom I shared the pics with a few friends, commenting that I hope they call for assistance. Well, within 10 minutes there was a call put in to a local volunteer group for assistance, and I thought I missed out. It just do happens that the group decided that this job was more than they could handle, and referred the owner to me.

About an hour later the owner of the vehicle contacted me and we made plans to recover their vehicle.

Upon arriving at the location we began setting up our rigging and securing the vehicle for the pull.

The winching went very smoothly, with only minor adjustments made to the direction of the tires.

And within 4 minutes the vehicle was back up on flat ground. We checked the fluids, but only found that from the steep angle the overflows had lost just a slight amount.

We derigged and proceeded down the mountain, with a very happy customer. No damage was sustained to the vehicle.