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zozo
Jun 28, 2004, 7:25 PM
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Just saw a news crawl saying that a slide killed one climber and injured another. Anyone from Maine or New England have more details?
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skateman
Jun 28, 2004, 7:42 PM
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This is what the AP had to say:
1 dead, 3 rescued after rock slide
Published: Monday, Jun. 28, 2004
MILLINOCKET, Maine (AP) - One person died and another was seriously injured
in a rock slide on a popular hiking trail in northern Maine's Baxter State
Park, officials said Sunday.
Park Director Irvin "Buzz" Caverly Jr. said the injured hiker and two others
who were caught in the slide were rescued, but a fourth was trapped under a
large boulder on Cathedral Trail in the south basin of Mount Katahdin.
The slide was reported to Baxter officials early Saturday afternoon, Caverly
said. About 60 people from the park staff and local volunteer search and
rescue teams worked through the night and three the hikers were rescued.
A Maine Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopter arrived at about 11 a.m.
Sunday and removed the body of the hiker who had become trapped under the
boulder, Caverly said.
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Jun 28, 2004, 7:45 PM
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do you have a link for that info? Did it have names? I have a number of friends who climb Katahdin.
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d.ben
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Jun 28, 2004, 7:54 PM
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My condolences to Roger's family.
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ninjaslut
Jun 28, 2004, 7:54 PM
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Does this involve the Knife's Edge? I don't know Katahdin well, but plan on visiting soon.
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edge
Jun 28, 2004, 8:03 PM
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The Cathedral Trail accesses the Knife Edge, and the Dudley Trail completes the whole traverse and brings you down to Chimney Pond. Or you can do it the other way around.
I have only been into Katahdin 5 times, all in Winter, but there were always some seriously large rockslides visible all over the place.
Condolences to the family.
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