DEEP TROUBLE: Stranded and Broken - A Ride Gone Wrong on the Haywire Grade Trail
Adventure Rider Radio
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
In 2008, Doug Oosterhouse’s annual motorcycle camping trip took a brutal turn on the Haywire Grade Trail in Michigan when deep sand and a hidden hole caused his fully loaded KLR 650 to crash. With no cell service and a serious injury that left his foot pointing the wrong way, getting help was no easy task. What followed was a painful ordeal, major surgery, and a lesson in just how quickly an adventure can go sideways.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we have another of our Deep Trouble series. Deep Trouble is an exclusive series found only here on Adventure Rider Radio. |
| 0:07.0 | Deep Trouble is stories from riders that have experienced breakdowns, being lost, catastrophes, injuries, and other issues that have led them into deep trouble. |
| 0:16.6 | And of course, no one really wants to be in trouble. But if there was no threat to dodge, no line in the sand to skirt, |
| 0:23.6 | no precipitous edge to approach, there would be no adventure. |
| 0:28.4 | And because that adventure lives in the gray zone, the gray zone between safety and danger, |
| 0:33.8 | it's all about riding the gray zone, your gray zone, whatever that is. And our deep trouble |
| 0:39.1 | series is about helping you ride the gray zone without crossing into danger. We do this by hearing |
| 0:44.8 | stories of those who have fallen into trouble, struggled and returned with lessons for all of us, |
| 0:50.2 | and how to avoid deep trouble. Or if you do find yourself in a situation, tips, ideas, and |
| 0:57.1 | tricks that may help you. And on this episode of Deep Trouble, Doug Osterhouse makes really kind of |
| 1:02.9 | one small mistake in the sand and everything grinds to a halt. But surrounding that one small |
| 1:10.5 | mistake or just a whole bunch of other factors that could |
| 1:13.1 | have changed the outcome one way or another, and that's really our focus today on deep trouble. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm Jim Martin. This is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you. |
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| 1:33.8 | And you're listening to Adventure Ride Adventure Ride. |
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