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OldSlacker
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 25, 2012 - 10:16am PT
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Our local rescue team and HeliTac tried to save a 27 yr old climber after a 30-40ft fall yesterday. She passed on route to the hospital. The only local details emerging so far is that she was giving a climbing demo when she fell. Anyone know details of how the fall actually happened?
RIP to the climber, best wishes to her family and friends.
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OR
Trad climber
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Jul 25, 2012 - 10:19am PT
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Baahhhhhh! Hating this stuff. RIP
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Gary
climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
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Jul 25, 2012 - 10:19am PT
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Oh, no!
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neversummer
Trad climber
30 mins. from suicide USA
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Jul 25, 2012 - 10:40am PT
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Sad...sympathy to friends and family.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Jul 25, 2012 - 10:47am PT
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yikes, a lot of these lately. It's like this is a dangerous game or something huh? condolences to you and the victims family.
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msiddens
Trad climber
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Jul 25, 2012 - 11:29am PT
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so sorry, that suuuuucks
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 25, 2012 - 11:43am PT
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hey there say.... very sad to hear this... :(
prayers and condolences to her family....
and to those that she was demo'ing to, as well,
some may have been new climbers? and double-shocked...
:(
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Jul 25, 2012 - 11:44am PT
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IDYLLWILD: Woman dies after rock-climbing fall
Published: 24 July 2012 10:11 PM
A Chino woman died Tuesday, July 24, about 2½ hours after she fell while conducting a rock-climbing demonstration at Mount San Jacinto State Park in Idyllwild.
Karen Gose, 27, died of her injuries in an air ambulance while being flown to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, said the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in a news release.
Gose, a volunteer hiking guide, was demonstrating rock-climbing and rappelling techniques about 12:45 p.m. when she fell 30 to 40 feet in the park’s Suicide Rock Trail and Climbing Area, the Sheriff’s Department said.
http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/hemet/hemet-headlines-index/20120725-idyllwild-woman-dies-after-rock-climbing-fall.ece
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OldSlacker
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2012 - 11:46am PT
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that's the same info I saw, gives no details about the cause of the fall.
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neversummer
Trad climber
30 mins. from suicide USA
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Jul 25, 2012 - 12:04pm PT
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Ya looks like north side or buttress of cracks ?
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Jul 25, 2012 - 12:09pm PT
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Damn rappelling! you can not be too careful. Worth repeating, do a mental checklist before you commit to that rappel.
Very sad, condolences to her friends and family.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Jul 25, 2012 - 12:12pm PT
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A little googling brought up this blog belonging to a Karen Gose:
Location: Chino, California, United States
Introduction: Im in my second yr at Mt.Sac, hoping to get out of here before the yr is over. I live at home and work for the Boys and Girls Club of Garden Grove. I also work for the girlscout council of orange county. I love to play sports and be outside. If i could do anything all the time i would spend all my time rock climbing.
Interests: Rock Climbing, movies, hanging out, offroading, sleeping
http://superscooter03.blogspot.com/
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jul 25, 2012 - 12:58pm PT
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Very sorry to read this. My deepest sympathy to her family, friends and all who knew her.
John
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jul 25, 2012 - 01:20pm PT
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So sad. RIP little lady.
The article is actually asking witnesses to contact them and nowhere does it say the cause of the fall. Could be something as simple as a slip and fall off the top while setting up or a distracted rappel. Hard to say.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Jul 25, 2012 - 01:22pm PT
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Karen Gose, 27, fell while descending a rock face during a climbing and rappelling demonstration
First line of the article from the Patch
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Jul 25, 2012 - 02:33pm PT
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Very sorry to hear this as well. She definitely sounded like a giver and will be missed.
Tough week with another climber death in the Tetons (also 27 years old).
Eric
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Jul 25, 2012 - 02:54pm PT
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my condolences to her friends, and family
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jstan
climber
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Jul 25, 2012 - 03:07pm PT
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A suggestion.
It may be a good rule that demonstrating rappelling, by its nature a non-redundant and therefore exposed activity, needs to be a two person task. A person setting up their rappel should not have the distraction of, at the same time, carrying out a conversation with as many as a dozen people.
Another very exposed situation that I witnessed. A person was conducting a rappelling class for a group of around twenty UCSB students/associates. The rig consisted of a single sling that seemed intended to provide force equalization on two six inch diameter trees. There was no backup on that sling. And there was no provision for belay to those on rappel. I think, with good reason, universities are generally withdrawing their support for this sort of instruction. The students were getting entirely the wrong message as to what is involved in a rappel.
Too often rappels have been treated as entertainment. They can be entertainment, I suppose, if one really enjoys Russian Roulette.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Jul 25, 2012 - 03:22pm PT
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My sincere condolences to family and friends.
We need people like Karen now more than ever.
very sorry to read this.
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