Men rescued - climbers or hikers?

[Rad]

The SeaTimes is careful not to describe these folks as climbers, even though it says they were climbing. The public probably sees them as climbers anyway. "Not experienced and not dressed for a climbing trip" probably describes all of us at one point or another. MLUS for Washington coming soon?

 

In any case, it would've been a cold, wet night out last night and I'm glad they are safe.

 

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Two brothers who were stranded overnight near the Big Four Ice Caves by Granite Falls have been rescued, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said.

 

This morning, rescue workers from Snohomish, King and Skagit counties, as well as sheriff's deputies, worked to help the men, ages 37 and 19, of Marysville, who had been stranded while climbing Monday.

 

"It's probably not a stretch to say the men are cold and tired," said sheriff's office spokeswoman Rebecca Hover in a note to reporters. The men were not injured.

 

Rescue workers were able to make voice contact with the men yesterday evening, after people heard the brothers yelling and called for help, according to Hover. Rescuers also used handheld thermal devices to pinpoint the location of the men.

 

About seven rescue workers spent the night near the scene, but the team waited till daylight today to continue the rescue efforts, the sheriff's office said.

 

The rescue was done by King County's helicopter Guardian One. Workers on the ground directed it to the right location and used the helicopter's hoist to bring the two men inside the helicopter.

 

Deputies said the men were not experienced climbers and were not dressed for a climbing trip.

 

[catbirdseat]

Last time I was at Vantage, I saw a group of about 4 people screwing around up on a large broken pedestal on Green Wall. They looked drunk. They did not look like climbers.

 

I didn't stick around to wait for one to fall. I guess they managed to get down in one piece.

[Gary_Yngve]

The Everett Herald was a little more colorful with their descriptions of the subjects:

 

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20070905/NEWS01/109050001&news01ad=1

[tanstaafl]

Nice article.

 

Did you and Barry camp out and play with helicopters or did you come back on Monday night?

[Gary_Yngve]

We camped out. We were geared up to get inserted so that we could either raise the subjects to an extraction point or lower them all the way down, but the new fancy hoist was able to take care of everything without us.

 

We got really lucky with the weather. It was socked in at dawn, but it cleared enough within the next two hours to allow Guardian 1 to fly. It then clouded back in some an hour later, and the weather was far worse in the city than by Big Four.

 

 

[AlpineK]

That was a good article. Some people need to be scared a bit.

[tanstaafl]

Too bad you didn't get to play on the hoist, that is sooo fun.

 

My favourite part of the article: "Unless you're a climber, it's probably not a good idea to be climbing."

 

[EWolfe]

My favorite part was "they didn't have the 10 essentials".

 

Ya think? they were wearing jeans and t-shirts, I can't imagine why they left them behind...

[chucK]

A puzzling bit from the article:

 

"They were wearing baseball caps, short-sleeved T-shirts, jeans and shorts." (emphasis added)

 

Is that the non-climber version of shorts over polypro?

[rmncwrtr]

A puzzling bit from the article:

 

"They were wearing baseball caps, short-sleeved T-shirts, jeans and shorts." (emphasis added)

 

Is that the non-climber version of shorts over polypro?

 

Pure speculation, but since there were two brothers I read that as one wore jeans and the other shorts.

Edited September 6, 2007 by rmncwrtr

[Bug]

A puzzling bit from the article:

 

"They were wearing baseball caps, short-sleeved T-shirts, jeans and shorts." (emphasis added)

 

Is that the non-climber version of shorts over polypro?

 

Pure speculation, but since there were two brothers I read that as one wore jeans and the other shorts.

Did you have a humourectomy?

[rmncwrtr]

Did you have a humourectomy?

 

I have no sense of humor whatsoever.

[ericb]

A puzzling bit from the article:

 

"They were wearing baseball caps, short-sleeved T-shirts, jeans and shorts." (emphasis added)

 

Is that the non-climber version of shorts over polypro?

 

Pure speculation, but since there were two brothers I read that as one wore jeans and the other shorts.

Did you have a humourectomy?

 

given that they were "locals" cut-offs wouldn't be out of the question...i.e. "jean-shorts"

[spotly]

Davey Dukes?

[G-spotter]

jorts