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Archive Home > 2006 > December > 10 > 'No matter what it took'

'No matter what it took'

Snowmobile ride turns into son's struggle to save his father

By Cindy Powers / The Bulletin
December 10, 2006

The last words Brian Rouse said to his father were, "I love you, and I'm going to get you out of here."

The men had weathered two days and two nights in a blinding winter storm in the Deschutes National Forest, trudging through hip-deep snow.

By nightfall on the second day, 53-year-old....

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