From owner-xj-digest-at-digest.net Sun Feb 26 22:31:56 2006 From: xj-digest xj-digest Monday, February 27 2006 Volume 01 : Number 2288 Forum for Discussion of XJ cherokees and wagoneers Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: xj: Anyone need a rad? xj: wild jeep ride XJ Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/jeep/xj/ Send submissions to xj-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to xj-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to xj-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:12:16 -0800 From: "Jim Blair" Subject: xj: Anyone need a rad? I have a brand new 3 core one for '91 up XJ with 4.0L (still in box) It also can be used to convert the '87 to '90 4.0L (XJ and MJ) away from the stupid bottle system to a fill cap on the rad. (you just need regular heater hoses after that) This is the one http://tinyurl.com/ntfm7 that was bought for my son's project (his ex-GF now owns it and he moved back to Canada) He borrowed the money from me to buy it and since I work there, I can't return it (it wasn't bought through my account) so I am selling it for $125 obo. ~~build your truck right the first time!~~ _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee. Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:31:00 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: xj: wild jeep ride check this out: ...maybe we should have a Jeep fest and help with the recovery. :) (it's a ferry ride and about 45 minutes from the ferry dock on the Olympic Peninsula... ;) john 'It Must Have Been A Terrifying Ride' February 26, 2006 By Andrew Binion, Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES - Two skiers whose sport utility vehicle plunged 450 feet off Hurricane Ridge Road on Saturday afternoon were returned to the road virtually uninjured. Jennifer M. Maurer, 22, and Ryan L. Brumbagh, 21, both of Seattle, were transported back to Port Angeles, but not to the hospital, Olympic National Park spokeswoman Barb Maynes said. Maurer received a Band-Aid for her finger, Maynes said. The 1993 Jeep Cherokee was not so lucky, and rangers were still unsure how to remove it below where it plunged over the side of the road, which rises into the Olympic Mountains to the popular Hurricane Ridge ski area. In addition to park rangers, Clallam County Search and Rescue, Olympic Mountain Rescue, Clallam County Fire District No. 2 and members of the Clallam County Sheriff.s Department responded to the scene about eight miles south of Port Angeles after 9-1-1 dispatchers received word of the crash at 3:13 p.m., said Dee Renee Ericks, Olympic National Park east district ranger and incident commander. First word of the crash came when passers-by noticed a set of tire marks in the snow leading to nowhere. Vehicle teetered The Jeep apparently didn.t go over the edge all at once, said rescuer Bill Tiderman, who talked to witnesses at the scene and climbed down the hill to help Maurer back to the road. He said before the vehicle went down the hill, it teetered for a moment. "Are we going to make it?" Tiderman said, recounting what could have been the couple.s discussion. "Nope." Included in the 450-foot drop were two cliffs, both between 30 and 40 feet high, Maynes said. She said the vehicle tumbled at least four times on its way down. "It must have been a terrifying ride," Maynes said. Road had been sanded The road had been heavily sanded Saturday morning, Maynes said, and had been inspected by the sand truck driver once between noon and the time of the crash. She noted that the SUV had snow tires and was switched into four-wheel drive mode before it plummeted. "Four-wheel drive isn.t necessarily a savior when you.re on ice," Maynes said. The SUV left the road between two tunnels separated by about 70 yards, about 3.5 miles up from the national park.s Heart O. The Hills entrance station. The path the Jeep took as it went down the incline was obscured by falling snow. Although the vehicle is not visible from the road, pieces of the vehicle and debris showed the way. Rescuers strung a 300-foot rope along the path the vehicle took to guide them, Maurer and Brumbagh up to the road, but the incline did not require rappelling. Tiderman said it appeared the two had their seat belts buckled. "Everything in the car was strewn out along the way, so they were obviously attached [to the vehicle]," he said. John Stieber, operations leader for Olympic Mountain Rescue, helped Brumbagh to the road. He said the car looked like it had plunged 450 feet. "Upside down and tore up, that.s the best description I can give," Stieber said. The incident is under investigation, Ericks said, noting that contributing factors such as road conditions and speed will be considered. Rangers will next have to consider how to remove the vehicle, if they can. "It certainly won.t come out today," Ericks said. "It may be very, very difficult to impossible to remove. We.ll have to assess that." The park is planning a "pretty major rehabilitation" of Hurricane Ridge Road in the coming years, Maynes said, but did not know if the plan included a guardrail at the spot where Maurer and Brumbagh went off the road. "We.ll be evaluating all aspects of the road," Maynes said. "It.s extremely rare when things like this happen anywhere on the road." The road to Hurricane Ridge rises from near sea level at its intersection with U.S. Highway 101 in Port Angeles to more than 5,000 feet in about 17 miles. ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://JohnMeister.com **** http://wagoneers.com ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold ** http://freegift.net *** http://greatcom.org/laws/languages.html ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of xj-digest V1 #2288 *************************