Avoid A Yosemite Epic - PSAR Reports

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knighTrain

climber
Yosemite, CA
Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 9, 2009 - 04:50pm PT
Yosemite climbing season is here. Don't become a YOSAR client; learn from the misfortune of others.

Friends of YOSAR has posted in-depth climbing accident reports with analysis and first-hand accounts. Visit http://friendsofyosar.org/rescues/PSAR.html

Reports are posted for the following routes/areas:

El Capitan - The Nose, Sunkist, Mescalito
Half Dome - Regular NWF
Washington's Column - The Prow
Royal Arches - Ascent and descent routes
Church Bowl - Revival
Middle Cathedral - DNB
Reed's Pinnacle - Stone Groove
Cathedral Rocks - Gunsight Notch
Sentinel Rock - Steck-Salathe
Lost Brother
Cathedral Peak - Southeast Buttress
Fairview Dome - Lucky Streaks
Lembert Dome - Northwest Books
Daff Dome - Western Front
Pywiack Dome - Needle Spoon

Stay safe and please wear a helmet.
knighTrain

climber
Yosemite, CA
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 9, 2009 - 08:22pm PT
If you find these reports to be useful, please post a comment or bump this thread so others will see it.

Thanks.
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
Jun 9, 2009 - 08:40pm PT
this was a close one...

Porkchop_express

Trad climber
the base of the Shawangunk Ridge
Jun 9, 2009 - 08:44pm PT
That link is a very valuable and sobering resource. I will be reading from it a lot.
Swami Jr.

Trad climber
Bath, NY
Jun 9, 2009 - 09:41pm PT
thanks!
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Jun 10, 2009 - 01:33am PT
here's an up close view of a rescue...

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyyE7RoGRsc

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yodT5YE1cec
mcreel

climber
Barcelona, Spain
Jun 10, 2009 - 03:49am PT
bump climbing content
sibylle

Trad climber
On the road again!
Jun 10, 2009 - 08:23pm PT
These are very sobering. For instance, the "Double Climber Fatality: Possible Anchor Failure" on Middle Cathedral.
I was on YOSAR then, and helped carry out the bodies. Later I learned that one of them was a man with whom I'd lived for three years while we were both graduate students at UC Irvine.
He and I had climbed the Salathe together years earlier. Tom was certainly competent; and had climbed Half Dome in a day only a few days before this accident. What's really scary is Lincon's comment:

"At least five other cases of complete anchor failure (protection pulling out-not breaking) have occurred in the Park in the last 30 years."

FIVE cases of complete anchor failure!!

That's scary.

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