*** Adirondack Hikers Accident ***

Wed Jan 17 13:52:06 1996
Message : #37726308    From: TheBone123
Address : thebone123@aol.com
Subject : Adirondack Accident

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On the morning of January 15th, a father and 12-year-old son were
helicoptered out of one of the drainages below Algonquin Peak, after
having got lost near the summit the afternoon before. Their core
temperatures were 90 degrees F when they were found, and they were unable
to assist getting themselves into the helicopter, and unable to speak
during the ride to the hospital.

They had left their packs at treeline for the final push. They did not
have snowshoes when found, although rangers said their tracks looked like
snowshoes because of the amount of ice encrusted on their boots.

We climbed Algonquin the afternoon of the 14th as well. Winds were up to
50 miles per hour, with clouds obliterating visibility off and on. We
camped out nearby the night they spent outdoors, and it got down to minus
10 deg F. We heard rangers shouting with flashlights in the middle of the
night.

We watched an NBC TV crew interview a ranger in the parking lot of the
Adirondak Lodge when we came out.

(TheBone123)

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