The buns were just a bonus.
The meals he made of those provisions were among the few pleasant parts of an otherwise painful experience that Strus, 63, of Richland, Washington, last week in the mountains north of Keating Valley.
After the rocky edge of a remote forest road gave way beneath the weight of his 2006 Dodge three-quarter ton flatbed pickup around dusk on Sunday, May 2, the truck rolled once, landing on its wheels near a small stream.
âMy beautiful truck is not so beautiful anymore,â he said. âI hit pretty hard.â
It all started because Strus, who moved to Baker County around 2005, wanted to go fishing at Balm Creek Reservoir. He had tried to reach the reservoir some days before from the west, via Medical Springs, but was turned back by snowdrifts.