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S & R Search for missing hiker at Mountain High
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:16 pm
by Cy Kaicener
Re: S & R Search for missing hiker at Mountain High
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:44 pm
by AW~
Re: S & R Search for missing hiker at Mountain High
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:57 pm
by lilbitmo
AW,
I think there were two different incidents - one was a hiker, the other was a snow boarder?
Snow Boarder
http://hikerhell.blogspot.com/2009/02/m ... ntain.html
Hiker
http://hikerhell.blogspot.com/2009/02/h ... h-ski.html
Re: S & R Search for missing hiker at Mountain High
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:40 pm
by Bill
I'm pretty sure it was a single incident. No search underway that I'm aware of currently in Wrightwood. LA County Copter 12 found the snowboarder 7:00 this A.M. Nothing on Wrightwood website mentions another search.
Re: S & R Search for missing hiker at Mountain High
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:09 pm
by lilbitmo
Thanks Bill, Hiker Hell has it as two incidents.
Thanks for setting us straight.
Re: S & R Search for missing hiker at Mountain High
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:29 pm
by AW~
Heres the updated fox link..
http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/local/M ... d_20090218
Not sure exactly how he ended up in a creek on the south side of Blue ridge(could have been snow runoff). Have to hand it to the S&R who ,IMO, saved his life seeing as he was lost and couldnt ascend 40ft(very mysterious).
One question I have for the winter travellers is this part about him sleeping in a snow cave. Lets say he did dig out an actual cave in the snow, did this really help him or only a snow cave with the entrance sealed and heated inside works?
It was also interesting to read all those comments basically boiled down villify hikers as stupid. "Shoot him..shoot him I say!"..
.."Naw...first..we hang m...then we shoot m".