I was not going to be able to get out of the sand. I told her she had to stop she was wasting her energy. She started scooping sand with both hands, but it was refilling faster than she could pull it out. She got another stick, and I tried to wiggle and pull my leg, but nothing was moving at all. I couldn’t even stand to get leverage to pull on it. Jess gave me the stick. The ground that sunk was just a tiny area around me, but I couldn’t move my right leg at all. It was also up to my left calf, and I was able to free it. When Jessika got to shore, my right leg sank all the way to my thigh. I didn’t pay attention to what was going on I figured I’d just pull it out. I got her by the shoulders and pulled her out. I told her to stop moving and not to freak out, and then I went to help. Then she fell forward, and both legs started to sink. Less than five feet from the edge, Jessika’s front foot sunk. About five miles in, we had to walk through a pond. At the beginning of the hike, we found a stick that was about six feet long and took it with us to poke into the ground whenever we crossed water to make sure it was okay to step there.Īs we hiked, snow started lightly sprinkling off and on. And the weather was sunny when we started. We’d hiked in Zion before this, but not the Subway. I figured it would be a long day-five hours in, five hours out. As a winter storm moved in, McNeill had to make a desperate hike out of the canyon to find help while Osmun tried to stay alive, stuck in an icy riverbed as more and more snow fell. Well into their trip, Osmun stepped in a tiny patch of quicksand that completely swallowed his leg. Last Valentine’s Day, Ryan Osmun, a 34-year-old from Mesa, Arizona, and his girlfriend, Jessika McNeill, decided to hike the Subway, a remote, semi-technical slot canyon trail in Utah’s Zion National Park.
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