Epic story of Survival in Utah, Saved by his Dog

Mike Force Podcast

Mike Glover

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Story of overcoming the odds in the backcountry of the Uintah mountains. A man in Utah, identified as Jacob "Jake" Schmitt, recently survived a serious incident in the Uinta Mountains by crawling for 11 hours to safety after crashing his side-by-side vehicle. The Incident and the Fight for Survival while spotting for deer with his dog "Buddy", Schmitt's vehicle reportedly lost control and rolled "15-20 times" down a mountainside. He sustained a broken leg, fractured ankles, and broken ribs in the crash. With his phone lost and only the light on Buddy's collar for illumination, Schmitt made the courageous decision to crawl down the mountain, knowing he faced a fight for survival. He reportedly splinted his leg himself before starting his agonizing journey. Buddy the hero dog throughout the 11-hour ordeal, Buddy, a 6-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer, stayed by Schmitt's side. Schmitt credits Buddy with helping him through the ordeal, explaining how his dog would heel when needed, providing light and motivation to keep going. Rescue and recovery by day break, Schmitt reached his truck and drove to a diner in Oakley, where a staff member called 911. He was taken to Park City Hospital, where he remained for four days before being discharged and returning home with Buddy. A GoFundMe page was set up to help with medical expenses and had raised over $15,000 as of July 31st. Lessons learned Schmitt's story emphasizes the importance of preparedness, including being able to perform self-rescue and carrying essential supplies, even for seemingly short trips into the backcountry. He advises others to "learn how to do everything with nothing". His experience is a testament to resilience, the will to live, and the power of the human-animal bond in the face of adversity.

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:08.9	All right, Jake.
0:09.6	Well, thanks for coming out.
0:11.0	You came from Ogden, right?
0:12.2	Yes, sir.
0:13.0	Yeah.
0:13.9	So, just for context, you know, I always have the dream of podcast and people about survival type deals.
0:21.7	Gotcha.
0:22.6	And I've done it before.
0:24.2	We've done documentaries on it.
0:25.8	The guy who's monitoring this podcast has done some epic documentaries for Black Rifle called Stories of Survival that we've done.
0:33.3	Okay.
0:33.6	But you're the, every time I see a person who's gone through something epic, it's the two brothers, one of the brothers lost with the mountain lion attack and fought it off. That was crazy. Yeah. There's never anybody local. I know just they're in the hospital or they're they're like you. Yeah, I know. You know, they can't get to me because they're not down the road, but you're in Ogden, Utah, right?
0:54.2	Yep.
0:55.2	And this happened, where do this happen at? This was up, uh, in the Uintas more towards like Whitney Reservoir, you know, northern, well, not really northern. It'd be like, I guess to be northwest, um, closer to the Wyoming border, you know, kind in the high peaks out there, you know, public land gets quite treacherous out there, but there's big deer for sure. So yeah, we'll get into that. Yeah. I need some cheat codes. So I got you a backcountry carrier. Wow. That's for you. All right. And then a first aid kit because I know you use yours. I already did. Yeah. Thank you sir. Hey, welcome. So you get you
1:28.9	have the backcountry carrier and then if you get flipped out of your UTV, at least it'd be on your person, it'd be on your body. I could use that man. Yeah, that's for sure. Awesome. Well, before, I mean, before we get into it, let's let's just start off with you because I want, I'm interested to know your background and where you grew up, your mom's in the studio with us, which is really cool.
1:28.9	Yeah.
1:29.5	I could tell by... with you because I'm interested to know your background and where you grew up.
1:46.6	Your mom's in the studio with us, which is really cool.
1:47.1	Yeah. I could tell by your Tacoma. Is that your mom's Tacoma or yours? No, that's mine. That's my backup guide rig. Is it? All right. Well, let's start off with, give us a little bio about you. I actually grew up on the East Coast, originally like Buffalo, New York, you know, borderline of Canada.
2:04.5	Not a lot of huge elk or anything out there, you know, grew up hunting like white tail and smaller stuff out there, but got addicted to just a mountain and back country hunting in my late teens, early 20s, and got real passionate about it started just doing it
2:18.9	myself winging it and then uh eventually got into guiding and it got me so into it that you know
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