UTILITY VEHICLE SUCCESS STORY
Comedian David Letterman owns a ranch here, as does professional football Hall-of-Famer Joe Montana (fi ttingly), in addition to a virtual who’s who of personalities who, like Coppock and Hering, just want to get away from it all at times.
Both attorneys with demanding law practices and rigorous schedules, Coppock and Hering had been searching for the ideal retreat property. Then, during one of Coppock’s many visits to spend time with Adam, the father/son explorer duo set out on an adventure to Yellowstone National Park. It was on that trip they discovered the tiny, quaint villages of Cooke City and Silver Gate, Mont., located within a stone’s throw of Yellowstone’s northeastern-most entrance. Immediately upon Coppock’s return to Des Moines, Adam stepped up the property search.
“Adam found this really neat house and land for sale nearby,” Coppock says. “The owner had been a doctor from Billings and he and his wife lived there in retirement. But as they grew older, it became more diffi cult for them to manage the property. I can understand how diffi cult it must have been for them to leave this place. We feel very fortunate having found it.”
Remote, revered respite
The Coppock-Hering retreat is located just off Highway 212, most commonly referred to as Beartooth Highway. The home, which borders some national forest land, is situated on four spectacular acres within a mile of the Northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
“It’s a wonderfully remote place,” Hering says, “and the perfect spot for us to escape. There’s no cellphone coverage, yet the house has all the modern conveniences like electricity and heat, etc., and magnifi cent windows. Among the many things we enjoy most about it are the wood-burning stoves. There’s nothing more relaxing than the sound of a crackling fi re, gazing out the huge windows with snowfl akes gently falling, awaiting an appearance from the next bear, moose or elk.”
Fewer trips to the woodshed
Keeping two hungry wood-burning stoves fed takes a fair amount of wood. And while Coppock and Hering aren’t ones to shy away from some rigorous, physical activity, the laborious process of locating, splitting and hauling fi rewood was certainly an impediment to the couple’s exploring playtime.
“We needed a vehicle to help with some of the small jobs around the property,” Coppock says, “like hauling fi rewood and rocks, pulling stumps … that sort of thing. But we also wanted something that could easily traverse the sometimes rugged terrain when we were off on one of our adventures. I was familiar with the solid reputation of Bobcat®
equipment, so we
did a lot of research online. Then, after a visit to Bobcat of Big Horn, in nearby Cody, Wyo., we decided on the 3400 UTV with four-wheel-drive transmission. It’s really saved us a lot of chore time and back-breaking labor.”
Coppock especially appreciates the 3400 4x4 UTV for hauling his wood splitter deep into the backwoods in search of fallen
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“The 3400 allows us to access places we normally wouldn’t venture into. It’s very utilitarian, but the added surprise for us is that it’s also a lot of fun. We now create our own trails and observe unsuspecting wildlife that most people never get the chance to see.”
— Barbara Hering
A Bobcat utility vehicle with four-wheel drive allows Lance Coppock and Barbara Hering to explore new areas around their getaway cabin in rural Montana.
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