Matt Gypin set out Wednesday for a short day trip to the mountains.
The Broomfield man needed a winter scene for the calendar he makes every year for his mother, and the descriptions of Crooked Creek Pass in John Fielder’s “Best of Colorado” sounded like just what he was looking for.
But Gypin didn’t read far enough in the entry to see that Brush Creek Road is closed in the winter.
His Jeep Wrangler got stuck in deep snow Wednesday with the sun setting, no cell service and no other travelers coming or going on the rural road.
Help was not too far away. Gypin had passed the entrance to Sylvan Lake State Park just a mile back.
But Gypin, 32, is a quadriplegic who uses a manual wheelchair. He broke his C6 vertebra, near the base of his neck, 10 years ago when he fell from a third-floor balcony at a friend’s graduation party.
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