LAST EDITED ON Mar-04-10 AT 01:13PM (MST)[p]Mark, Thanks for the info. I always wondered how it would be hunting out of the Hotel. We'd stop in every time thru there and make use of the nice Bar. Brings to mine a True story, i got a few minutes so here goes the short version;
In 1978, 4 of us young bucks in 2 rigs made the trip there from Kali. Only 1 rig had 4X4, the other had a shell and was basically for storing our gear and the trip. It snowed a bunch in the coupe days before the opener that year and, while out scouting, our 4X4 blew a transmission, had to be towed to Grand Junction.
The four of us are belly up to the bar in the Meeker Hotel crying in our Beers. Opening day was tomorrow and we couldn't even get off the highway with our 2 wheel drive rig. The old fellow sitting next to me, i was on the outside of our group, made himself known to me that he had a question. " you mean to tell me you young fellers don't have a rig to hunt out of tomorrow?"
"yeah, our rig had to make a trip to the Doc" i replied.
" Seems you boys is in a jam and i can help you out if you want. You can give me a ride home in my old car and drive back with the jeep i have. It's got a new diesel motor in her, runs real good though, keep her until you get your rig back, she's yours for the taking." I about fell off of my bar stool.
So my buds are still drinking their beers and wondering what we're gonna do when i turned my back to the offering old guy and told my buds, " this old guy here says we can take his Jeep!"
"Yeah, Right!!" was the jest of the response i got from my pards.
I drove that ol boys vintage car out of town that very evening as he talked about his family being in the outfitting business years before, all the hunting that he'd done thru the years, and hoe that's why he was glad to be able to help us out . When we got to his place, 3-4 miles out of town, he had me pull up next to his CJ-5, sitting pretty like, right there in his carport. Imagine the look on my friends face when i showed them the borrowed rig. We did make use of that rig for the first week of our hunt and ol Roy Sanderson, never forgot his name and i'm one bad with names, would not accept a nickle from us in payment. He did accept a couple 1/2 gallons of Old Crow, his preferred brand, but that was it.
I ask, how many guys would do something like that now days? And, it all happened, sitting in that bar off the side, in the Meeker Hotel.
Joey
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