Tauntaunless Rescue in the Olympics

[Dan_Miller]

PLB saves the Day? More on 'Mountain Rescue Season.'

 

From today's NPS Daily Ranger Report:

 

Olympic National Park (WA)

Rangers Rescue Injured Man from Bailey Range

 

A 41-year-old Auburn man was airlifted from the Bailey Range on Sunday, August 31st, after falling about 150 feet down a steep slope. Trevin Lambert sustained multiple injuries, but was able to walk, with assistance from rangers, to a helicopter. He was flown to Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles, then transported via ambulance to Olympic Memorial Hospital. Rangers were alerted to Lambert’s injury at approximately 11:20 a.m. on Sunday morning when the park’s dispatch center was contacted by a personal locator beacon (PLB) service with the information that Lambert’s PLB had transmitted a 911 message. The 911 message included Lambert’s precise location, using GPS coordinates. Three rangers responded by helicopter and found Lambert just south of Eleven Bull Basin. Although he was still able to walk, the terrain was extremely steep and unstable and rangers used a technical rope rescue in order to bring him to the helicopter landing area. The helicopter met the injured man at approximately 7:10 p.m.; he reached the Fairchild International Airport at about 7:30 p.m. Personal locator beacons use satellite technology to transmit location and brief messages. More information can be found by going to http://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/ and clicking on "Emergency Beacons." The Bailey Range is an extremely rugged area of the park’s wilderness and is recommended only for very experienced and fit hikers who are comfortable with route-finding and traveling on steep, exposed slopes and loose rock. Lambert is described as being very experienced and fit; he fell after losing his balance on loose rocks. Lambert was in his second day of a planned five-day traverse of the trail-less Bailey Range. [submitted by Barb Maynes, Public Affairs Specialist]

 

 

 

[ivan]

tauntauns don't do talus

[G-spotter]

Any relation to Lambone?

[Ishmael]

tauntauns don't do talus

 

They keep them in a freezer over the summer so they can be fresh and ready to go for the snow/ice season...