[pct-l] Big Bear SAR and frostbite update

[Bill Batchelor]

Try this link instead
http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080316/NEWS01/80316001 

-----Original Message-----
From: cvano at tmail.com [mailto:cvano at tmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:40 AM
To: Bill Batchelor
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Big Bear SAR and frostbite update

Error 404, not found.  Couldn't get the web site, bad link or a wrong letter
or something.  Thanks. C

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:35 am, Bill Batchelor wrote:
> Sorry, did not follow the openning lines.  What is a 404 and what 
> would you like to see?
>
> Glad to hear they only had to "take a little off the top".  I am even 
> happier to hear your desire to get back on the trails.
>
> PG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net
> [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
> On Behalf Of cvano at tmail.com
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:28 AM
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Big Bear SAR and frostbite update
>
> Got a 404 on this one.  Would like to see it though.  Any ideas?  I do 
> have a personal locater beacon mounted on my PFD for sailing but it's 
> too big and heavy for hiking.  Could you see the Coast Guard steaming 
> up
> the side of Mt. Whitney????   As a side note, Seattle Mountain Rescue
> said they could in deed home in on it even though it was made for 
> nautical applications.  The frequencies are the same, 121.5 and 241 
> some kind of hertz
>
> Frostbite
>
> I did loose part of my left big toe from the frostbite.  They took it 
> off Monday morning.  I didn't lose as much as I thought I would and 
> recovery is going very well.  I had already had breakfast and was 
> outside smoking an hour after surgery.  Didn't have a general 
> anestetic, just a local nerve block.  Lost maybe a half inch of toe 
> and the nail and have 8 stitches.  I walk fine in the morning but have 
> a very pronounced limp by the end of the day.  Also my calf hurts by 
> then.  I'm sure this will get better as the healing progresses and I 
> quit trying to walk with my big toe up in the air.
> It only hurts on impact or when I try to stretch it either up or down.
>
> Looking forward to day and overnight hiles this summer and still 
> planning the JMT next year.
>
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:01 am, Bill Batchelor wrote:
>>
>>  Near the PCT this weekend.  Chalk one up for the Personal Locator  
>> Beacon.
>>  Probably saved them another day or so waiting to be noticed as 
>> missing.
>>
>>  http://www.10news.com/news/15611961/detail.html
>>
>>  Pink Gumby
>>
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> Hillary 1919-2008
>
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