Monday, January 7, 2008

COLORADO SNOWMOBILERS FOUND ALIVE...HAPPY TO BE RESCUED!



Missing N.M. snowmobilers found alive
By Tom McGhee and Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 01/07/2008 04:37:21 PM MST

Two snowbound families spent more than two days in a cabin near an isolated train station in southern Colorado before searchers found them this morning.

"We just stayed in the cabin because it was safe," Jason Groen, 36, said when crews on snowmobiles brought him and five others to the top of Cumbres Pass at about 11 a.m, according to the Associated Press.

Groen, the owner of several businesses in Farmington, N.M, his wife and teenage daughter were snowmobiling with with another family near the pass about 30 miles north of Chama.
The group got lost and ran out of gas Friday night.

"The snow was so bad, they had gotten disoriented with the whiteout," Jason Groen's father, Larry, said in a telephone interview this morning.

They took refuge in a cabin near the isolated Osier Station, a small wooden building that serves as summertime stop on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, a tourist line.

Jason Groen's cellphone didn't work in the cabin, and bad weather kept him from leaving to find a place where he could get a signal until this morning.

Groen and his wife, Shannon, periodically climbed to higher ground to call for help. But they were still unable to get a signal, and they feared that if they went any farther, they might lose sight of tracks leading back to the cabin, Larry Groen said.

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