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Glad they made it out.
successful Maroon bells rescue
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Re: successful marron bells rescue
About time, some (relatively) good news from North Maroon Peak.
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Re: successful marron bells rescue
At least they fixed the "repelled" mistake in the article. 
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Re: successful marron bells rescue
Good thing they had a PLB - could have saved their lives!
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Re: successful marron bells rescue
Not to sound like a jerk, but there seem to be two types of people that would attempt Maroon Bells with dangerous early season snow/ice: extremely experienced people with lots of specialized gear/ or inexperienced people displaying an alarming degree of overconfidence.
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SkaredShtles
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”SoCool wrote:Not to sound like a jerk, but there seem to be two types of people that would attempt Maroon Bells with dangerous early season snow/ice: extremely experienced people with lots of specialized gear/ or inexperienced people displaying an alarming degree of overconfidence.
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Re: successful marron bells rescue
Great to see a positive outcome on the Bells. Here's a pretty cool interactive map which shows rescues from the last three years. Looks like the events for October 2014 have not yet been plottedsmrcka wrote:Good thing they had a PLB - could have saved their lives!
http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/sarsat_rescues_2014.html
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Glad they are alright!
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Re: successful Maroon bells rescue
It seems like the altitude mentioned in the article for where they hit the emergency button on the PLB (11,500) must be wrong. 11,5000 ft. is only about where the rock glacier is on the standard route, so not even to the so-called "first gully" yet. I'm guessing they were actually much higher up.
So glad they made it out safely. Especially if avalanches were occurring in the gullies, this could have ended very badly. Good work Mountain Rescue Aspen and HAATS.
So glad they made it out safely. Especially if avalanches were occurring in the gullies, this could have ended very badly. Good work Mountain Rescue Aspen and HAATS.
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Re: successful Maroon bells rescue
I could see it being around 11,500 feet. I remember there being some pretty exposed terrain down and to the left around the time you leave the rock glacier area and head into the first gully. If they got off route they could have been down in that area around 11,500. In any case, glad to see the SAR teams with a successful rescue!Exiled Michigander wrote:It seems like the altitude mentioned in the article for where they hit the emergency button on the PLB (11,500) must be wrong. 11,5000 ft. is only about where the rock glacier is on the standard route, so not even to the so-called "first gully" yet. I'm guessing they were actually much higher up.
So glad they made it out safely. Especially if avalanches were occurring in the gullies, this could have ended very badly. Good work Mountain Rescue Aspen and HAATS.
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Re: successful Maroon bells rescue
Very steep and grassy mixed in with cliff terrain. It would be miserable and dangerous on that in slick conditions before there is enough snow to make it more passable.Tornadoman wrote: I remember there being some pretty exposed terrain down and to the left around the time you leave the rock glacier area
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Re: successful Maroon bells rescue
11,500 is correct
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