*** Fallen Hiker Rescued - Eldo, Colorado ***

Thu Jun 15 11:22:45 1995
Message : #27472346    From: Raymond Snead
Address : rays@teal.csn.net
Group   : Usenet.rec.climbing
Subject : Re: Eldo accident...
Org.  : Colorado SuperNet, Inc.

Eric Scott Boltz writes:

There was yet another accident in Eldo yesterday...sorry I don't have the
details, but I heard that a woman took a grounder.

She took a grounder, all right. This was NOT a climbing accident. The woman
was hiking/scrambling with her friends high in the Wind Tower gully. She
fell off about 50 ft. below the rappel bolts in the notch on the regular
descent from Wind Ridge. This was serious stuff: a 20-25 ft. fall, lots of
trauma, a punctured lung, etc.

Help arrived almost immediately in the form of a well-known local, Steve
Levin, who just happened to be descending from a romp up Wind Ridge. Rangers
and RMR were quickly on the scene, and the rescue went smoothly, though was
considered a "hurry up" because breathing problems were obvious.

I watched all of this from the base of Blackwalk and BackTalk, and it was
not pleasant.

Ray Snead
Boulder, Colorado

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