[tbird5]

Do these guys have to pay for rescue? They should.

[Spok]

You gotta love those Seattlites! If they're not swilling Starbuck's or campaigning to promote buggery, they're getting lost on a mountain! (Steve and Trapped excepted, of course.)

[Steve_Seattle]

Mountain rescue efforts, like whale stories, always get front-page news in Seattle above and beyond their newsworthiness. .

[GovernmentShrinker]

Time to start leaving these guys where they get themselves stuck. Let them contract in advance with a private rescue company for these services if they want them. Tax dollars and public employees aren't supposed to be providing support services for daredevil recreational activities.

[Nurse Ratched]

Everybody is a mountaineer these days. geesh

[dirtboy]

I helped carry a climber off Ranier back in 1991. Couldn't for the life of me figure out how he managed to injure himself at about 9,000 feet on a moderately-sloping snow field, but a lot of people don't know how to walk on snow slopes or how to stop themselves if they do fall and start sliding (i.e. a fingernail self-arrest).

I was hiking nearby and offered to help carry the litter. The rangers intially blew me off, but after a quarter-mile suddenly became interested in my help - it's quite a load carrying a dead weight off a mountain.

[Not A Snowbird]

One has died. His wife and I play in the church orchestra together. Leaves behind four children.

Prayers, please, for his family.

[djf]

I live 30 miles from Rainier, and have been to the 10,000 foot level. But there's only one mountain in the cascades I'd love to climb, even though I might not have the nads for it:


Mt. Stuart, 9,415 feet. The craggiest, most nightmarish piece of rock you could ever see. This is the nice side!