Auburn
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First of all the doctors said they are both going to make full recoveries. It will take some time though as they both have multiple factures. They have requested that no one try to go see them or call them other than their immediate family at this time. They have a support group in place and I will post up their "caring bridge" site once that is fully set up.
[SIZE=12pt]EDIT: here is the caringbridge site to contact them and follow their recovery[/SIZE]
[SIZE=18pt]https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/davidcolleenkillough[/SIZE]
For donations on behalf of BR and Mrs. that will benefit Stevens County EMT Program: Donate
They have already said they will be reaching out for help in the near future, but wait until they ask so they are not overwhelmed. Much like Tyler's incident, they need a lot of rest and have several surgeries ahead of them.
The ride report (aka SkooterG style):
The day started at 6:30 Saturday morning when Beamer Reamer and & Mrs. met us at the I-90/SR 18 wiegh station to ride up to Arlington to meet up with Panman and Neihart. (thank you mrs. niehert for giving him a weekend pass - little did we know how much we would need his help later in the day)
BR & Mrs., Mrs. Auburn and I headed fro Arlington and got there a few minutes to 8AM. Had a quick breakfaast and were on our way. Panman and BR planned a 550 mile route over SR 20 (North Cascades Hwy.) The weather was fantastic, it was the first real sunny day on the west side and temps were already in the low 60's.
I was having trouble getting the route into my Zumo, so BR walked me through it, then Niehart had me load it into his Zumo. We all had the route in our Garmins and were ready to roll. Did I say it was a very nice day? It was forecasted to be the first day in the 70's in 9 months.
We head out SR 530 then caught SR 20 at Rockport and headed east. There was almost no traffic, the raod was clean, dry and smooth.
Here are a couple of pictures from my "pillion paparazzi" (thanks Biker Geek - my wife fits the description too) on SR 20.
We stopped in Twisp for gas and lunch about noon. Saddled up and headed east. Eventually we ended up on US 97 headed north and then found several back raods that parralled the north side of SR 20 heading east of Omak. Sorry no pictures there, wife got tired of taking them. Panman had some realy good backroads that we went over.
We came back into SR 20/US 395 north west of Kettle Falls about 4:30 in the evening. We were about 100 miles from completing a loop around the north end of the feeder rivers/lakes of Roosevelt Lake. We turned off SR 20/US 395 crossing the Kettle Falls river and headed up the north side of the river, which was more like a lake at this point.
ABout 6 miles up the road it comes back along the river/lake. We had all slowed down and were looking at the lake about 70 feet below us. Panman was leader, then Beamer Reamer, us and Niehart was sweeping with about 100-150 feet between each of us in single line.
Then out of nowhere for below the road. this jumped in the road about 2 feet infront of BR and Mrs.
The deer caused them to go to the right once it fell off the front of the bike. With them headed down to the water. If you could draw the perfect sidehill ride on a dirt bike, BR did it. He missed two fir trees that were about 20 feet apart, the stumps, the rocks, everything. The slop is at least a 2:1 if not steeper. He anlged down at about a 6:1 slope. The hit the water and got flipped of the bike, with her landing in about 2-3 feet of water and him being thrown further out into the water.
This where the bike landed
I parked just above them, and head straight down the hill to them, my wife was on the cell calling 911. Niehart was assitiing her and then coming down the hill. Panman still didn't know we had stopped until he was about 2 miles up the road before he turned around.
I went straight down the hill, got to her about a minute after they hit the water. She was sitting up and doing OK. I continued downstream as the current was pulling him away from shore and downstream. He was already about 40 feet from shore and 100 feet downstream. I got mu leather jacket and spine protector off and dove in after him. His helmet and back protector were acting just enopugh like a floatation device. By the time I got to him we were about 60 feet from shore kind in a rip tide type current. I grabbed his pants and slowly started bring him in letting the current push us, but gaining ground to shore while makeign sure I didn't pull him under. About 10 feet from shore and before I could touch he saw me and started to struggle. I got him calmed down while staying baout 10 feet from shore, but it had move us another 100 feet down stream. By the time Niehart checked her out more fully and was on his way to us. He could feel everything and and was moving both legs including his broken one. That was good news, he was not having any difficulty breathing or coughing or anything. And he was awake.
BR was banged up pretty good and had obvious brken bones, thankfully none showing. Niehart and I got him turned around and cleared a spot on shore to rest his shoulders on. BR wass telling us he had back pain, rib pain and leg pain. Since he wasn't bleeding and due to the location of hte pain, we let his lower body float in the river and started checking over. About 5 minutes after teh accident, the first sheriff was on scene and told us the EMT's were on their way, the ambulance and a helecopter.
A guy riding his quad up the road stopped to help. He came down to assistup with BR. We sent him back over to help Mrs. BR and keep her calm. This guy was amazing!
About 7-10 minutes later the first EMT arrived. He had a back board with him so we could start getting BR on it and out of the water. ABout 5 minutes later the rest of the EMT's and the ambulance arrived. All of the EMT's are volumteers in this county. What an outstanding group of professionals!
They took over and got things situated. A couple of boaters came by to assist. Thank God! We were able to put them on the fornt of their boats and take them to a campground about 1/2 mile up river. The helicopter laned just as the boats were headed to the campground.
About 45 mintues after the accident, the got him out on a helicopter and her out in an ambulance. Unfortunately to separate hospitals. They later transported her to the same hospital he was sent too.
Starting to drag the bike up the hill
Bent forks
The rescue crew after everything had calmed down about 2 hours after the accident
I got to say a lot of little things happened right. Starting with BR getting to teh water without hitting anything. Where I parked was the only cell coverage as long as you stayed in a 3' circle. All of the fiorst responders got there just as they were need, the boaters that volunteered to tranport them to the campground, the quad rider who kept her calm and assisted her, the professionalism of all of hte volunteers.
All of these things combined to bring about the best possible outcome considering the situation that was dealt.
I will post the caring bridge link once it is ready.
EDIT: now for one funny thing in this whole thing. After two hours under about 6-10 feet of water, the Zumo 550 was fully functioning and telling us where it was at and how far to the next turn.
[SIZE=12pt]EDIT: here is the caringbridge site to contact them and follow their recovery[/SIZE]
[SIZE=18pt]https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/davidcolleenkillough[/SIZE]
For donations on behalf of BR and Mrs. that will benefit Stevens County EMT Program: Donate
They have already said they will be reaching out for help in the near future, but wait until they ask so they are not overwhelmed. Much like Tyler's incident, they need a lot of rest and have several surgeries ahead of them.
The ride report (aka SkooterG style):
The day started at 6:30 Saturday morning when Beamer Reamer and & Mrs. met us at the I-90/SR 18 wiegh station to ride up to Arlington to meet up with Panman and Neihart. (thank you mrs. niehert for giving him a weekend pass - little did we know how much we would need his help later in the day)
BR & Mrs., Mrs. Auburn and I headed fro Arlington and got there a few minutes to 8AM. Had a quick breakfaast and were on our way. Panman and BR planned a 550 mile route over SR 20 (North Cascades Hwy.) The weather was fantastic, it was the first real sunny day on the west side and temps were already in the low 60's.
I was having trouble getting the route into my Zumo, so BR walked me through it, then Niehart had me load it into his Zumo. We all had the route in our Garmins and were ready to roll. Did I say it was a very nice day? It was forecasted to be the first day in the 70's in 9 months.
We head out SR 530 then caught SR 20 at Rockport and headed east. There was almost no traffic, the raod was clean, dry and smooth.
Here are a couple of pictures from my "pillion paparazzi" (thanks Biker Geek - my wife fits the description too) on SR 20.
We stopped in Twisp for gas and lunch about noon. Saddled up and headed east. Eventually we ended up on US 97 headed north and then found several back raods that parralled the north side of SR 20 heading east of Omak. Sorry no pictures there, wife got tired of taking them. Panman had some realy good backroads that we went over.
We came back into SR 20/US 395 north west of Kettle Falls about 4:30 in the evening. We were about 100 miles from completing a loop around the north end of the feeder rivers/lakes of Roosevelt Lake. We turned off SR 20/US 395 crossing the Kettle Falls river and headed up the north side of the river, which was more like a lake at this point.
ABout 6 miles up the road it comes back along the river/lake. We had all slowed down and were looking at the lake about 70 feet below us. Panman was leader, then Beamer Reamer, us and Niehart was sweeping with about 100-150 feet between each of us in single line.
Then out of nowhere for below the road. this jumped in the road about 2 feet infront of BR and Mrs.
The deer caused them to go to the right once it fell off the front of the bike. With them headed down to the water. If you could draw the perfect sidehill ride on a dirt bike, BR did it. He missed two fir trees that were about 20 feet apart, the stumps, the rocks, everything. The slop is at least a 2:1 if not steeper. He anlged down at about a 6:1 slope. The hit the water and got flipped of the bike, with her landing in about 2-3 feet of water and him being thrown further out into the water.
This where the bike landed
I parked just above them, and head straight down the hill to them, my wife was on the cell calling 911. Niehart was assitiing her and then coming down the hill. Panman still didn't know we had stopped until he was about 2 miles up the road before he turned around.
I went straight down the hill, got to her about a minute after they hit the water. She was sitting up and doing OK. I continued downstream as the current was pulling him away from shore and downstream. He was already about 40 feet from shore and 100 feet downstream. I got mu leather jacket and spine protector off and dove in after him. His helmet and back protector were acting just enopugh like a floatation device. By the time I got to him we were about 60 feet from shore kind in a rip tide type current. I grabbed his pants and slowly started bring him in letting the current push us, but gaining ground to shore while makeign sure I didn't pull him under. About 10 feet from shore and before I could touch he saw me and started to struggle. I got him calmed down while staying baout 10 feet from shore, but it had move us another 100 feet down stream. By the time Niehart checked her out more fully and was on his way to us. He could feel everything and and was moving both legs including his broken one. That was good news, he was not having any difficulty breathing or coughing or anything. And he was awake.
BR was banged up pretty good and had obvious brken bones, thankfully none showing. Niehart and I got him turned around and cleared a spot on shore to rest his shoulders on. BR wass telling us he had back pain, rib pain and leg pain. Since he wasn't bleeding and due to the location of hte pain, we let his lower body float in the river and started checking over. About 5 minutes after teh accident, the first sheriff was on scene and told us the EMT's were on their way, the ambulance and a helecopter.
A guy riding his quad up the road stopped to help. He came down to assistup with BR. We sent him back over to help Mrs. BR and keep her calm. This guy was amazing!
About 7-10 minutes later the first EMT arrived. He had a back board with him so we could start getting BR on it and out of the water. ABout 5 minutes later the rest of the EMT's and the ambulance arrived. All of the EMT's are volumteers in this county. What an outstanding group of professionals!
They took over and got things situated. A couple of boaters came by to assist. Thank God! We were able to put them on the fornt of their boats and take them to a campground about 1/2 mile up river. The helicopter laned just as the boats were headed to the campground.
About 45 mintues after the accident, the got him out on a helicopter and her out in an ambulance. Unfortunately to separate hospitals. They later transported her to the same hospital he was sent too.
Starting to drag the bike up the hill
Bent forks
The rescue crew after everything had calmed down about 2 hours after the accident
I got to say a lot of little things happened right. Starting with BR getting to teh water without hitting anything. Where I parked was the only cell coverage as long as you stayed in a 3' circle. All of the fiorst responders got there just as they were need, the boaters that volunteered to tranport them to the campground, the quad rider who kept her calm and assisted her, the professionalism of all of hte volunteers.
All of these things combined to bring about the best possible outcome considering the situation that was dealt.
I will post the caring bridge link once it is ready.
EDIT: now for one funny thing in this whole thing. After two hours under about 6-10 feet of water, the Zumo 550 was fully functioning and telling us where it was at and how far to the next turn.
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