My first visit to Colorado my roommate and I decided to visit my Godfather who had just moved in himself a couple months ago. Borrowing his truck for the weekend to go skiing, he told us to take a nice off-road trail through the mountains first.

What he didn't realize is that people don't go offroading up 10,000+ feet mountains in early March in Colorado.

I must admit, it was a little strange to see so much snow at the start of the trail, but we kept trucking on. As we ascended the trail--which was supposed to just go about 12 miles up, and then 12 miles down the other side--the amount of snow on the ground begand to increase rapidly. At one point about 8 miles and about an hour into driving I slowed down to take a sharp turn when we got stuck on a patch of black ice under the snow.

What was worse is that as I accelerated to try and remove myself from this position, the ...-end of the truck slid closer and closer to the edge of the mountain, which would have sent his truck long-gone down the mountain.

In the 2 minutes that we spent outside trying to rock the truck out of it's place my roommate and I were so terribly cold that we were both shaking. Then the clouds blew over and it started to snow.

Long story short(er): by some miracle, I had ONE bar of analog service on my cell phone which i used to call my godfather and explain that I had gotten his brand new truck stuck in the mountains. After calling AAA to see if they would go offroading to rescue me, they said they would. Apparently, they made it about half-way up the trail, and said "**** this, it's too dangerous" and turned back. While driving back they told the police that they had saved us.

With my last bit of battery in my phone, I called back to find out what the status was because after-all, I'd been sitting for 4 hours in the cold. He realized that AAA wasn't coming, and we had to pay close to $400 to get towed out by an extreme towing company.

All in all, we spent 8 cold (and at times scary) hours in the cold. Thank god for the cell phone though, otherwise we would have had to risk venturing out in that awful storm 8 miles down a mountain to try and get help.

Not the brightest thing I've ever done...