GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Woah, what a horrible thing to happen in such a wonderful place.
I think about that little cove all the time... what a terrible thing to happen anywhere.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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So sorry to hear this!
Eric
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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soloist? Rest in peace whoever you were.
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CynthiaL
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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The official press release should be available in the morning. I will try to post it then. Sketchy info this afternoon. Very sad... we have had so few fatalities in the park in my 15 years...
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Very sad and troubling to hear of this. My thoughts and prayers are with his loved ones.
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ec
climber
ca
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Doesn't The Exorcist start on a ledge above the deck?
 ec
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Fluoride
Trad climber
West Los Angeles, CA
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Yes EC. But it's sloping so if he fell soloing the route he'd probably roll to the ground. Plus it's a rap off. So don't know if someone could solo it and safely walk off anywhere.
He was allegedly found 50 ft off the deck. Trying to think of routes there where the scenario of a soloing fall would put it there.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Very sad. Condoloences if any of his friends or family check in.
Looks like he probably was bouldering or soloing. Not sure what route. There's a couple of moderates scattered around in HOH that he might have been on.
Posted: Thursday, October 4, 2012 4:21 pm | Updated: 4:50 pm, Thu Oct 4, 2012.
Staff report | 0 comments
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK — A man died Thursday afternoon while bouldering in the park...
Followed by some mis-infomation about the location BTW. The 50' thing is probably reporters getting sh#t wrong as usual. Reporters never get facts straight.
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CynthiaL
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Joshua Tree National Park News Release
Visitor Fatality in Joshua Tree National Park
Joshua Tree National Park confirms a visitor fatality at Hall of Horrors area in the park.
Joshua Tree National Park Search and Rescue responded to an initial report of a visitor injury at 2:50 Thursday afternoon. The incident occurred in the popular climbing area located between the Jumbo Rocks and Ryan campgrounds referred to as the Hall of Horrors. Search and rescue personnel located the 42 year old male on a ledge 50 feet above the ground, but he did not respond to rescuers attempts to resuscitate.
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ana dablam
climber
mother earth
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Sad, sounds like not a climber?
Antonio Mojica or another source calls him Mojica Antonio Coronel and two companions were scrambling on the rocks in the Hall of Horrors rock climbing area inside the park, when for unknown reasons, he fell about 15 feet into a crevasse and became wedged in some rocks about 50 feet above ground level. Both Mojica's companions and a park ranger performed CPR for 30 to 45 minutes, but when paramedics from Joshua Tree Fire Station 36 arrived about 3:30, Antonio Mojica was pronounced dead.
http://kcdzfm.com/news/fullstory100512.html#a01
rip antonio
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locker
Gym climber
DUH!!!...
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Would it be any more important, more sad, more tragic...
had it been a "CLIMBER"???...
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Sad news.
Does not sound like a climber, but one of the many visitors who scramble about on the rocks.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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A crevasse?
Global warming must be BS.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Would it be any more important, more sad, more tragic...
had it been a "CLIMBER"???...
I agree that it would be no more sad if it had been a climber.
With that said, as climbers on a climbers' Forum, the death of a fellow climber in what first sounded like a climbing accident, would be of particular interest to those of us who post and lurk here. Also, the degrees of separation would be few -- and it would have been likely to have been someone known to one of us.
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locker
Gym climber
DUH!!!...
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Well if it it isn't a climber...
why not delete this thread since this is a CLIMBING/CLIMBERS forum???...
SAD NEWS regardless of course...
Climber, or not...
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boulderkitty
Trad climber
LA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 5, 2012 - 11:09am PT
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Thank you all for the info. Condolences to his family.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Sad, yes.
But the real story here is how climbing is so commonly misreported.
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