Eric Bjornstad Accident

[layton]

quoted from moutainproject (not my post)

Update: I'm sure not many of you know that Eric had an accident (a fall I believe, but I'm not sure) and had extensive spinal cord damage that will require him to live in a extended care facility. After a month or so at St. Mary's in GJ he has been transported back here to Moab.

 

I plan on visiting Eric here in the coming week or so and I'm sure that he would appreciate any of your thoughts and well wishes. If there is any messages I can pass on I would be happy to do so. I will try and give a more extensive update after I talk with him.

 

 

Very sad. I hope he has plenty of friends and family to visit

[glassgowkiss]

sad.

 

[fgw]

Very sad to hear. Some years ago (’05?) word was that Eric would watch climbers’ dogs since he had a fenced yard and two of his own. That was a great excuse to go to his place and meet the man. Back then he told us he was working on a new desert towers book – no walls, no crags, just a big old tome on towers. Sounds like that’s not likely to happen now. Sad to think of a climbing life slowly winding down largely alone in a small house in Moab – hopefully that is not the full picture.

[Otto]

Wanting to read more on this, I had to search Mountain Project for the link. It's buried in a thread about the fate of the proposed fifth volume of Desert Rock. Thread: Desert Rock Series: What Happened?

 

http://www.mountainproject.com/v/desert-rock-series-what-happened/107396367__2