Supertool found after being lost in the Sierras for 10 years

[Jeff C.]

Check this link out to a story I wrote for the Leatherman website:

http://www.leatherman.com/owners/tool-tales/story.aspx?id=3cb07c82-d205-42ec-8e84-4d7c3b19c931

[Scott V]

that is pretty neat, to find something you lost up in the Sierras 10 years later is pretty cool.

[Frank Alessio]

And what became of old butterfingers Jeff????? Let me guess you married her anyway.... Frank

[dtp916]

Nice!

I can't believe you found it after 10 years, that's crazy. In the spring my shades fell off and into the water, about 3 feet deep. It was getting dark and I couldn't see into the water.

Came back the next day with a clear lid to a cooking pot, flipped it over and looked into the water and found them. It wasn't ten years - more like 10 hours - so you definitely get kudos for that!

[Ed Wahl]

Beats my one month pocket knife. Dressed a quail, set the knife down and forgot to pick it up again. A snow storm kept me out of the area for a month. Then the next quail trip I found it excatly where I left it. Did it again in the Cache Creek Canyon the next year but it was so far back in I just couldn't make myself go back for it.
Even the name was right, a Browning Trout and Bird knife. Just two blades, no frills, I still miss that knife. Ed

[EricO]

That's pretty cool, Jeff. So the question now is, when do the
royalty checks start arriving :D

Eric

[Jeff C.]

Frank,

I didn't marry her. She was a wild 19 year old who broke her neck (C3)snowboarding a week or two after I lost the Leatherman. I kept her head immobilized and drove her to the hospital in So. Lake Tahoe. She recovered fully with no paralysis and is now living a more normal life in Minnesota. She is framing the story and putting it up on her wall.

Jeff

[Frank Alessio]

Jeff,

That is more amazing than the Leatherman story. She was very lucky to

have you there to take care of her. A job well done Jeff. Frank

[Jeff C.]

Frank,

Thinking back, the first thing I did after Jessica got injured was to hold her head to keep her neck and spine aligned. Even when I got to the ER and I told them that I had someone in the car with a neck injury, the admitting nurse just pointed to wheelchair and told me to bring her in myself. I demanded help along wih gurney and a C-spine. All of that probably helped in Jessica making a full recovery intead ending up like Christopher Reeve. Her break was actually a C2 and his was a C3.

Anyway, if I hadn't had American Red Cross first aid training things might have turned out differently.

Jeff

[dtp916]

Nice job taking precautions and immobilizing her neck, she owes you big!

[mike N]

Jeff,

I think you just earned yourself a new handle! :lol: Jeff C AKA Super Tool :twisted:

MN