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adelicious
Apr 12, 2007, 4:11 AM
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I will say what I know to try to help clear things up. I have HEARD (I don't know) that there were several different accidents at RRG at several different crags over the Easter weekend. I can only speak of the one I have knowledge of:
The accident happened at Eastern Sky Bridge Ridge on or near Jack in the Pulpit 5.10d (see photo) at approximately 4 something pm on Friday. When we (leedaclimber, shadowgnu and I) encountered the girl running down the road towards our vehicle it was just after 4:30. She could not find her car and I think she may have been in shock. She couldn’t speak very well and it took a while to figure out what had happened and that the injured person was at the wall with 2 other climbers who were looking after him. She said she was belaying and she dropped her friend somehow. She was unclear what happened but her gloves had holes all across the fingers from the rope. She said he had blood coming out of his mouth (which we later found out was because he had bit his tongue/cheeks when he fell) she said they had sent her to get someone to call 911. No one had phones – and I never usually do either but for some reason I had mine that day. We couldn’t find reception anywhere so the girl got in our vehicle and we helped her find her car where she tried her phone. She did not get reception either. We got her in our car and drove until we found reception up on top of the hill near the tourist parking lot near the Sky Bridge Ridge tourist rails. The time of call on my phone says we called finally got through to 911 at 4:49pm. We had to leave leedaclimber with the phone where there was reception as the 911 said they may need to call him back. The girl, Shadowgnu and I went back down to the scene. I stayed in the vehicle as I have a broken ankle and couldn’t make the approach this is why I can't say what happened AT the climb. I do know that Shadowgnu ran up to assess the situation and to let the injured guy and two other climbers (who had been climbing near by and were looking after him) that help was on its way. The girl was told to stand at the path beside the road so that the paramedics and forestry would know where to stop. We ended calling the forestry people directly (as advised by 911) and drove back up the road to help direct the ambulance. The ambulance arrived sometime around 5:30p.m. and it took a long time for them to get the guy out of the forest with the help of about 8 volunteers that helped carry his stretcher over their heads to get around rocks etc. along the approach trail. Apparently he was experiencing pain in his lower back but was still conscious and reacting to things and asking them to put him in more comfortable positions. I was told that he fell from the last clip before the anchor of the 80 foot climb – maybe a 65-70 fall. He had lead the climb already, then he put her on it, then he set her up to belay by anchoring her to a tree. He was cleaning the route when he fell leaving a couple craters in the ground where his feet landed and another from his bum? The two climbers assisting him said he did not hit his head. At the time it was suspected the guy would be okay despite some lower back damage to vertebraes, but these were mostly assumptions. I am not sure if there were any further updates after that. I heard people talking about it at Miguel’s but I am not sure if anyone knew factual stuff if you know what I mean. I really hope the guy is okay.
Also see: www.redriverclimbing.com/viewtopic.php?t=8242
(This post was edited by adelicious on Apr 19, 2007, 1:47 PM)
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