Today, the AWESOME is in Michigan. Trevor Van Camp planned a surprise weekend getaway to Boyne Mountain and chose the Skybridge Michigan as the spot to propose to his girlfriend, Danielle Jenkins. High above the snowy slopes, Trevor dropped to one knee, pulled the ring from its box, and the unthinkable happened. The ring slipped from his fingers, fell through the open grating of the bridge, and dropped about 118 feet into the snow below. The couple spent more than two hours searching the ski slopes with metal detectors, helped by Pat Harper, Boyne Mountain’s night-shift snowmaking supervisor, who happened to have metal detectors in his car. Cold and discouraged, Trevor and Danielle gave up, but Harper did not. He continued to search, and around 10 p.m., his metal detector finally picked up a signal. He began digging through the snow and initially came up empty. Then, in a handful of snow, there it was — the edge of the ring. Harper saved the day, the proposal, and now the happy couple will have quite a story to tell, and THAT’S AWESOME.
