DeCaLiBron Rescue
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DeCaLiBron Rescue
A couple was rescued this evening from the cliffs below Cameron by PCSAR with assistance from SCRG. They saw their car from above and attempted to go directly to it by going off trail. After descending a couple hundred feet into a steep gully they became cliffed out. PCSAR was able to access them and lower them to safety.
They had no cell service. A passerby who happened to be off the main trail up to Dem was alerted by their shouts for help. If not for him, the outcome might not have been so fortunate.
1) Stay on trail.
2) Possess an InReach or SPOT.
They had no cell service. A passerby who happened to be off the main trail up to Dem was alerted by their shouts for help. If not for him, the outcome might not have been so fortunate.
1) Stay on trail.
2) Possess an InReach or SPOT.
Traveling light is the only way to fly.
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Re: DeCaLiBron Rescue
Cliffed out on Cameron? How does that even happen?
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Re: DeCaLiBron Rescue
I do remember seeing some cliffs underneath Cameron and Lincoln to the East, Here's a shot I took from Buckskin: That would make an ugly descent.
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Re: DeCaLiBron Rescue
Does Viesturs need to write a sequel? “No shortcuts to the bottom”?
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been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me,
Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me
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Re: DeCaLiBron Rescue
And another, similar incident on Princeton...
Bad decisions often make good stories.
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Re: DeCaLiBron Rescue
Traveling light is the only way to fly.
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Re: DeCaLiBron Rescue
I really wish the passerby had coached them back up and onto the standard route instead of calling SAR. At some point these stranded hikers need to learn to get themselves out of trouble in the mountains; getting cliffed out on a downclimb and reversing your route is tiring and discouraging, but a necessary experience.
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Re: DeCaLiBron Rescue
They were between the proverbial/literal rock and a hard place.seano wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 7:38 am
I really wish the passerby had coached them back up and onto the standard route instead of calling SAR. At some point these stranded hikers need to learn to get themselves out of trouble in the mountains; getting cliffed out on a downclimb and reversing your route is tiring and discouraging, but a necessary experience.
The passerby hiked to their location. One of the party had taken a short fall onto a ledge. It started raining. And this was their first 14er excursion. It’s easy to speculate what should happen, but scrambling back out of there was not going to happen in this instance. Lowering for extrication was easier than an uphaul.
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Re: DeCaLiBron Rescue
You know, I've heard quite a lot of this sort of feedback this week with my own accident and injury; I'm sure some on here harbor some of those similar thoughts to me and to other rescues in the past - the injury isn't life threatening in and of itself, but it's still debilitating and trying to push on with it may cause a deterioration of conditions rapidly. Likewise, when you are physically healthy yet stuck past the point of logical comprehension - you have placed yourself in a position where mentally you cannot get out from, and in hiking this can happen to anyone, you are as debilitated as if injured - this is exactly what happened to the people exiting incorrectly at Capitol who ended up dead. They were physically fine, it is assumed, they were just in a position where a move out of desperation and panic probably caused their death.seano wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 7:38 am
I really wish the passerby had coached them back up and onto the standard route instead of calling SAR. At some point these stranded hikers need to learn to get themselves out of trouble in the mountains; getting cliffed out on a downclimb and reversing your route is tiring and discouraging, but a necessary experience.
I don't resent their needs for help and the people who came to offer first assistance were not professionals, not in a place to safely get them back up on the route. They made the correct decision in reaching out for help. End of story. Their takeaway is always stay on route, regardless of appearances. Luckily they get to live to practice that, it could easily have ended up worse.
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#forcedrefocus
Time for the next great losing streak to begin.
#forcedrefocus
Re: DeCaLiBron Rescue
We need some of these catchy phrases you came up with to be more common when people give advice to folks for their first 14er.
Don’t get cute,stay on route: https://14ers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53310
Don’t get cute,stay on route: https://14ers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53310
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