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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 1, 2011 - 03:11pm PT
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Read the following comment on SF Gate site:
There is so much death in Yosemite and the majority of it comes from sheer stupidity. The SAR team jokingly refers to some of the rescues they do as "I.N.S." missions- Interfering with Natural Selection
From:
Body found beneath Yosemite's Vernal Fall
What's the deal?
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MTucker
Ice climber
Arizona
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Totally true. If you look through the stories (printed or oral) there are plenty of YOSAR stunts. A few kept photos of dead bodies in a scrap book.
Wonder what Fish has to say on the subject?
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TFPU
Sport climber
Idaho
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I agree what's the deal? Who cares if they say that.
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CAMNOTCLIMB
Trad climber
novato ca
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Knott,
Mother Nature is harsh. Play by the rules and you may win.....or knott
Brian
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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you're a real professional fattrad
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Maybe he was just ribbing them.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Mill Valley, CA
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it's called gallows humor and is a coping strategy for people who deal with death/crisis regularly.
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A5scott
Trad climber
Chicago
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i've read about the YOSAR climbers keeping bones from recoveries in their tents... not sure if it was true or tall tale, but i could believe it
scott
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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One time doing a recovery at Malibu Creek St. Park, I yelled at a BBQ'ng family if they wanted some ribs as I toted a young woman away. I have no doubt that retrieving dead bodies earns the right to vent what would otherwise be ghastly or ghoulish.
When you say "family" I infer with children.
That's way over the top, definitely an R rated comment.
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Prod
Trad climber
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One time doing a recovery at Malibu Creek St. Park, I yelled at a BBQ'ng family if they wanted some ribs as I toted a young woman away.
Haha, that reminds me of when I used to be a river guide in the Grand Canyon. In the morning when we'd be bring the sh#t can back to the boat none of the passengers would talk, they'd just watch to see where it was going. I'd always yell out "Who didn't chew their corn last night"
Prod.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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OK ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ that's funny!
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ELM !
climber
Near Boston
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Ditto...gallows humor. I've been a nurse for pushing 20 years. Some of the stuff I said back in the ER (and heard) has it's place keeping you sane. It's never mean or really directed at an individual but at a situation or too familiar occurance. For instance...I have cared for maybe 10-15 people who in attempting suicide by rifle have relented only to shoot themselves in the shoulder. You can see how the inability to aim jokes flow(and many others)...but they do because of the despiration of the situation. When you are close to these situations you have to vent, if you don't it'll eat you alive.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired to Appalachia
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I yelled at a BBQ'ng family if they wanted some ribs as I toted a young woman away.
The evil one
Damn! You are evil!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!
I have a nurse friend who used to work in emerge.
She had a little acronym that she would occasionally print in the bottom of the form she passed on to the doctor:
"TSTL" [Too Stupid To Live]
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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I yelled at a BBQ'ng family if they wanted some ribs as I toted a young woman away.
no yosar member has surpassed your level of assholiness..
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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NFR.....not fit for reproduction.
Peace
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Degaine
climber
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Daphne wrote:
it's called gallows humor and is a coping strategy for people who deal with death/crisis regularly.
Do you know of a good coping strategy for having to read fattrad’s asinine posts regularly?
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WBraun
climber
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If recovery people can't handle the stuff they are going to encounter in the field they should not be on that mission.
Stay home ....
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