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The related Facebook post on this is making me crazy. I find it nothing short of amazing that SARS doesn't drag dead bodies out of the woods every weekend.....
DayTrip, I could not agree with you more...
The related Facebook post on this is making me crazy. I find it nothing short of amazing that SARS doesn't drag dead bodies out of the woods every weekend.....
Sounds like I'm glad I am not on facebook. VFTT and the ADK High Peaks Forum is about as social as I get online.
I've thought about this tradgedy and my take is that she was climbing on the edge of the limits of what was possible, but failed to notice when that bar was raised to unacceptable, that fine line, once crossed sometimes cannot be recrossed.
Will an official report be published by one of the search and rescue agencies involved?
Will an official report be published by one of the search and rescue agencies involved?
One thing you can do is write the important bearings on a piece of tape stuck to the bottom of your compass. Presumably, if hung around your neck, or otherwise attached to your person, it won't actually blow away.
Tim
The poor resolution of the PLB signal may be something of concern as this may be the first (at least publicized) rescue that I am aware of where a PLB was activated in the whites for a rescue.
The poor resolution of the PLB signal may be something of concern as this may be the first (at least publicized) rescue that I am aware of where a PLB was activated in the whites for a rescue.
I expect the S&R folks do a formal post rescue critique that is not for public release. Generally such critiques are not oriented to what the hiker did wrong but what the crew could have and could not have done given the circumstances. There is also an important psychological aspect to these critiques as the people involved with the rescue have been exposed to a traumatic event and different folks process this in different ways.
The poor resolution of the PLB signal may be something of concern as this may be the first (at least publicized) rescue that I am aware of where a PLB was activated in the whites for a rescue.
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