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knighTrain
climber
Yosemite, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 9, 2009 - 04:50pm PT
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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.
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knighTrain
climber
Yosemite, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 9, 2009 - 08:22pm PT
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If you find these reports to be useful, please post a comment or bump this thread so others will see it.
Thanks.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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this was a close one...
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Porkchop_express
Trad climber
the base of the Shawangunk Ridge
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That link is a very valuable and sobering resource. I will be reading from it a lot.
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona, Spain
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Jun 10, 2009 - 03:49am PT
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bump climbing content
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sibylle
Trad climber
On the road again!
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Jun 10, 2009 - 08:23pm PT
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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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