Clark's Trail / Bonneville Shore Line

A post starting out with a photo of an ambulance is never a good thing. Well in this case it still isn't.

A group of us met up to go riding in Draper and Wade took a nasty tumble. I was on top of a hill taking pictures of some of the guys riding past a No Trespassing sign when I heard was sounded like someone crashing their bike. I turned to Matt and asked, "Did he just crash?" He said he thought so and we took off down the hill. Sure enough. Wade was laying at the bottom of the hill entangled in his bike and holding his arm. As we rode down to him he was saying he broke his arm. He said it so matter of fact that I thought he was exaggerating. As we got closer he says, "Compound fracture. It's a compound fracture." He wasn't panicked at all and his voice was rather calm. It was hard for me to digest what was going on. He was plenty dirty and bloody, but as we got to him it was blatantly obvious that his arm was broken and the bone was pushing hard against his skin. We untangled him from his bike and I grabbed my phone to call 911. No service! I ran back up the hill to call again and luckily that distance was enough. I know the 911 operator was trying to be efficient, but she was so aggravating. I was trying to explain to her where we were and she kept wanting to know if there was an address. "Ya. It's Dirt Trail North on the Side of the Freakin' Mountain!" Don't they have some way to lock onto your cell phone and send the ambulance there? I see it in the movies all of the time! Finally, a cop arrived after I explained that there is only one rode over Traverse Ridge and I was standing on it. After the first police car arrived they came in droves. Cop SUV's, motocycles, cars, ambulance, fire truck, and multiples of some. I went back down to help out by documenting the event. I was waiting for them to tell me to put my camera away, and was surprised when they never did. They even joked about taking pictures. Wade was telling the EMT's about Bogley.com and they should check it out to see the photos! What a guy!

He did break his arm pretty good and had surgery this morning at University Hospital. He had a plate and some screws put in his arm. A few guys have talked to him and say he is doing well. He is suppose to be released tomorrow. Crazy!

We finished the ride after the ambulance had left, and for the first 15-20 minutes I had a hard time riding because all I could think about was crashing. Then I just thought that you can only control so much and the rest is just left up to chance. I am not going to hide out in my house and hope that nothing bad ever happens to me. You have to continue living life and just try not to think about crashing!

Here are some more pics and the rest of the post.