Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 4:16 pm
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Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
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Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:47 pm
smh
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:52 pm
"and they also had plenty of experience" SMH!!!!!
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 6:20 pm
"The group decided not to move after night fell, builing a fire to keep warm." 
http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/angeles/h ... ev3_027721
http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/angeles/h ... ev3_027721
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 6:24 pm
Poor planning AND building a fire. Two mistakes that can lead to huge consequences.
"God was always with us, so we're good."
That's one explanation. Maybe I can use it to explain why I didn't die a couple hundred times when I was a teenager/young adult.
"God was always with us, so we're good."
That's one explanation. Maybe I can use it to explain why I didn't die a couple hundred times when I was a teenager/young adult.
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:04 pm
I will have a bootcamp for all people someday so this kinda jive doesn't flow.
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:38 am
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 1:42 pm
Taco,
How are you going address the issue of building a camp fire ??
May I suggest the title of the lesson: "How to build a camp fire and only burn down a 1/4 of the forest when the over night temperatures reach a bone chilling 51 degrees"
It's a pretty long title so make sure all cell phones are turned off and they're paying full attention when you school them...
Or skip the lecture and doctor up some photos that show Bambi on fire or Thumper with 3rd degree burns and a smoldering scut.
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 2:05 pm
I saw this group staging on my way down from an overnight.
It was clear that the experience level wasn't there but I didn't give it a second thought.
I guess I started thinking about it when I saw all the money in the sky picking them up.
Also had another interesting sighting that trip. And that would be a group of six or seven guys walking past my tent at 1:00 in the morning in the Mt. Williamson area, with no headlamps, on a use path, coming from a direction that only provided off trail access to the forest. First guy said "Hello" as I stuck my head out of my tent and then they kept walking. Single file, eyes straight ahead. They weren't hikers and they weren't hunters.
Took me until I heard some Spanish being spoken down the trail until I figured out what they must have been doing up there.
At least now I know where I can get free weed.
It was clear that the experience level wasn't there but I didn't give it a second thought.
I guess I started thinking about it when I saw all the money in the sky picking them up.
Also had another interesting sighting that trip. And that would be a group of six or seven guys walking past my tent at 1:00 in the morning in the Mt. Williamson area, with no headlamps, on a use path, coming from a direction that only provided off trail access to the forest. First guy said "Hello" as I stuck my head out of my tent and then they kept walking. Single file, eyes straight ahead. They weren't hikers and they weren't hunters.
Took me until I heard some Spanish being spoken down the trail until I figured out what they must have been doing up there.
At least now I know where I can get free weed.
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 5:28 pm
I don't know a lot about the ganja but wouldn't the Williamson area be a bit cold for growing the weed? Maybe not in summer though.Teejate wrote: ↑
Also had another interesting sighting that trip. And that would be a group of six or seven guys walking past my tent at 1:00 in the morning in the Mt. Williamson area, with no headlamps, on a use path, coming from a direction that only provided off trail access to the forest. First guy said "Hello" as I stuck my head out of my tent and then they kept walking. Single file, eyes straight ahead. They weren't hikers and they weren't hunters.
Took me until I heard some Spanish being spoken down the trail until I figured out what they must have been doing up there.
At least now I know where I can get free weed.
Interesting.
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:14 pm
Finally got anything on this....talk about very little info thus far.
http://www.adventistreview.org/church-n ... california
Now there was also a SDA website that claimed this was "Pathfinder-sponsored"....here is a link to a "master guide" Pathfinder, which appears to be the highest level of certification.
http://www.pathfindersonline.org/pdf/cl ... de_req.pdf
Anyways, starting off the article with this picture of Eaton Canyon...not so good
...OK at least the rest of the article was on topic.
"...The hikers, aged 14 to 36 and members of the Seventh-day Adventist Spanish Church of Huntington Park, emerged relatively unscathed, with two being treated for hypothermia after spending the night in wet clothes and a young woman suffering a minor foot injury when wind from helicopter blades flung a rock at her. The church group traveled to Eaton Canyon, located in the San Gabriel Mountains about 15 miles (25 kilometers) from Los Angeles, on Sunday for a day of hiking and rappelling waterfalls. But they grew tired and disoriented by evening....
The rescued hikers are already thinking about how else they can share God through the experience. One of them is planning an Adventist Youth meeting that may include a presentation and a skit about the experience, said Betty Cooney, communication director for the Adventist Church’s Southern California Conference.“They had amazing resilience and faith in God, singing, praying and sharing Bible promises throughout their chilly sleepless night on the rocks,” Cooney said...."
http://www.adventistreview.org/church-n ... california
Now there was also a SDA website that claimed this was "Pathfinder-sponsored"....here is a link to a "master guide" Pathfinder, which appears to be the highest level of certification.
http://www.pathfindersonline.org/pdf/cl ... de_req.pdf
Anyways, starting off the article with this picture of Eaton Canyon...not so good
...OK at least the rest of the article was on topic."...The hikers, aged 14 to 36 and members of the Seventh-day Adventist Spanish Church of Huntington Park, emerged relatively unscathed, with two being treated for hypothermia after spending the night in wet clothes and a young woman suffering a minor foot injury when wind from helicopter blades flung a rock at her. The church group traveled to Eaton Canyon, located in the San Gabriel Mountains about 15 miles (25 kilometers) from Los Angeles, on Sunday for a day of hiking and rappelling waterfalls. But they grew tired and disoriented by evening....
The rescued hikers are already thinking about how else they can share God through the experience. One of them is planning an Adventist Youth meeting that may include a presentation and a skit about the experience, said Betty Cooney, communication director for the Adventist Church’s Southern California Conference.“They had amazing resilience and faith in God, singing, praying and sharing Bible promises throughout their chilly sleepless night on the rocks,” Cooney said...."
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 8:32 pm
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 8:39 pm
AW wrote: ↑Finally got anything on this....talk about very little info thus far.
http://www.adventistreview.org/church-n ... california
Now there was also a SDA website that claimed this was "Pathfinder-sponsored"....here is a link to a "master guide" Pathfinder, which appears to be the highest level of certification.
http://www.pathfindersonline.org/pdf/cl ... de_req.pdf
A big thanks for sharing that. I'd done some searching and came up with nothing. This explains a lot.
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:20 pm
Eaton Canyon looks pretty rad now.
Nobody sings bible songs when we go out. 8)
Nobody sings bible songs when we go out. 8)
Re: Eaton Canyon Rescue, it never grows old
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:04 pm
That is really funny. It IS "Eaton Canyon", just not the right one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caniapiscau_River
And this is the fabled second waterfall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1335_ ... (pano).jpg
Looks nice.
And this is the fabled second waterfall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1335_ ... (pano).jpg
Looks nice.