Reminder: Slow down and check yourself!

Anonymouswrote:

Ahhh Allens back, just what we needed. You seemed to disappear from the pipedream cave so I'll ask you again here:

Have you ever climber anything at pipedream or a similarly steep cave, anywhere?

Jesus H. Christ dude get a life

Allen Sandersonwrote:

Seems someone had a case of narcolepsy while night climbing and realized their dreamscape of falling was real.

https://kutv.com/news/local/rescued-climber-falls-70-feet-down-mountain-in-big-cottonwood-canyon

Allen!? You still out there buddy?

Matt Selmanwrote:

Jesus H. Christ dude get a life

What's the story on this?

Another climber down... Geeze guys dial it back a bit but two people dead in two days and countless rescues in the past week. Let's try to be a more responsible user group and not take up all of SARs time and resources.

Anonymouswrote:

Another climber down... Geeze guys dial it back a bit but two people dead in two days and countless rescues in the past week. Let's try to be a more responsible user group and not take up all of SARs time and resources.

Here’s the link: 

Authorities recover climber's body from Mount Olympus
https://www.ksl.com/article/50171735/authorities-recover-climbers-body-from-mount-olympus

I can give some very general details about the accident on Mt. Olympus and Jim's death. I have known Jim peripherally for many years. The major couloirs (Blades, Resse, West Slabs) on the west side of Olympus catch the sun in such a way that a moat will form due the morning sun warming the rock wall on the west side. We also had have some cool weather the past few days so firm snow conditions. It is my understanding he was near the base of the slabs, slipped, sliding down the firm snow, and into the moat on the side. When I wrote up the description for the Reese and Blades couloir I wrote the following warning:

NOTE: If bum sliding down either couloir, each have a double fall line to them that pushes you into the west side of the couloir. This also happens to the side that catches sun. As such, a moat will form that can be extremely dangerous if you go into it. It has caught more than one experienced bum slider.

I do not have more specific details, Jim was an experienced climber on snow and rock but do no know if he was using an ice axe or crampons or was wearing a helmet. As these routes are fine routes. I have climbed these couloirs/faces many times in May I can say that one should most always have an ice axe and know how to self arrest. This year I did not because the lower portion of the Reese Couloir (my usual ascent route) melted out early. I should note that this is not the first time there has been fall on the approach to west slabs, another experienced climber had a similar fall. They survived but were in the ICU for sometime.

It is my understanding that the person who died on Superior was descending and slipped on firm snow by the weather station.

Here are all of the SAR incidents: facebook.com/slcosar

Thanks for the info Allen, and condolences to Jim’s, and all of the fallen climbers’ families.