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By James M Schroeder
From FIB town USA
Apr 28, 2008
Photo by Pete "Coach" Arndt

http://www.startribune.com/local/18000294.html

I particularly appreciate their comment at the end:

"Snow says the accident is the first at Devil's Lake this year. Last year, ambulance workers were called to the park 18 times for rock-climbing injuries."
By James M Schroeder
From FIB town USA
Apr 28, 2008
Photo by Pete "Coach" Arndt

And then there is this:

http://www.wiscnews.com/bnr/archives/index.php?archAction=ar>>>>>

Oh how soon the newspapers forget to make the distinction...
By James M Schroeder
From FIB town USA
Apr 28, 2008
Photo by Pete "Coach" Arndt

Sorry about the multiple replies, but I keep finding more bad journalism out there:

http://www.channel3000.com/news/15954548/detail.html

http://www.madison.com/tct/news/282629
By Chris treggE
From Madison, WI
Apr 28, 2008
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Right after I moved here to Madison there was a nice article about how the vast majority of injuries at DL that were "climbing" injuries were hikers or drunks falling off things. Too bad the media can't keep it straight. Well, as long as the park can keep it straight I guess it's okay. On another level, it's too bad also because most if not all insurance policies (disability and life) ask about rock climbing, and I suppose these types of thing count as rock climbing injuries in the actuarial eye, which makes insurance more expensive for us. Crappy.
By Doug Hemken
From Madison, WI
Apr 28, 2008
At the crux of McCarthy West Face var.<br /><br />Photo by Jon Jugenheimer

James M Schroeder wrote:
Oh how soon the newspapers forget to make the distinction...


Wasn't that nice article last year in the Wisconsin State Journal? So it's probably not surprising that other news sources were less critical. That, and most of what your search turned up pulls from the same source, the AP wire service, which is why they appear to parrot the same phrases.

Damos' photos for the News Republic show the accident at the base of "New Box" (Watermarks area), so the poor hiker really wasn't that far off the trail. Sounds like an especially nasty break - best wishes to him.

DNR folks and Baraboo Ambulance folks vary in their ability to distinguish between what we call climbing and what the rest of the world calls climbing. But to us it's kind of like hearing every road fatality referred to as a "motorcycle accident", eh?

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