Saturday, January 21st, at 12:00 p.m. (PST), we received an offroad recovery request for help from Oregon, where Melinda Marrocco found herself high-centered in her AWD SUV while driving thru Kingsley Guard Station Rd, 10 miles Southwest from Hood River.
Melinda shared with us: “I’m safe. Have water, food, service and gas. High centered I’m trying to dig out but there’s also a branch in the way. There’s a lot of snow up here. I put chains on but my clearance wasn’t enough.“
Our admin for the portal in Oregon, Tyler Lefebvre verified the contact information and prepared the request for the local volunteers.
![offroad recovery request in snow](https://offroadportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/794-890-846-1.jpg)
The vehicle stuck was a stock Mazda. From the volunteers invited two jumped and worked on the recovery; Colby Turner and Tad Johnston. They both teamed-up and took care of getting her back down to a safe road.
By 2:30 p.m., they got Melinda out of trouble. Awesome work guys!