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[Hacksaw]

If your reading the 1972-79 issue of THE SNOWY TORRENTS check out accident #79-6 (Feb 10, 1979) page 170, for something close to home............


Halsted

[summit]

I checked that out from the libreary over the summer and read it for fun... picked up some intersting stuff. Refresh my memory?

[shera]

Originally posted by SummitCo 1776
I checked that out from the libreary over the summer and read it for fun... picked up some intersting stuff. Refresh my memory?

Yikes, that's one of the first ones I looked at. A guy ducked two ropes, one of them two feet from a closed sign and skied onto the tunnel face at Loveland. The face went. There were three patrollers waiting at the bottom to pull his pass, so the rescue went pretty fast. 26 minutes later they located him three feet down and managed to restart his heart. Helicoptered him out of there but he never regained conciousness.

I thought I heard at Loveland that he died of head trauma, but the book doesn't specify.

Bottom line - be very careful what you poach at Loveland. Like I said before, there're a lot of slide paths there and the rope closures really mean something.

[Hacksaw]

Originally posted by SheRa
Bottom line - be very careful what you poach at Loveland. Like I said before, there're a lot of slide paths there and the rope closures really mean something.

SheRa,
The real bottom line is don't poach at all...
Cheers,
Halsted

[Ted Stryker]

I'd say its ok to poach if you have vast backcountry experience. A couple of years out Vermont usually does the trick.

[summit]

In Africa, they shoot poachers.