[pct-l] crampons

[Brick Robbins]

In 2001, Dr John Lowder, an experience hiker, was baling off the PCT
towards lone pine due to snow/weather conditions.

His body was found on New Army Pass below a long ice chute. He had
suffered major injuries from a fall, but had managed to get himself
into his sleeping bag before he died.

He was not carrying an Ice Axe. At that time, Trekking poles were the
new "latest and greatest" thing. Some sort of self arrest device
should be carried, whether an ice axe, or a self arrest handle on a
trekking pole. I've used both, I prefer the axe, because I've used it
to chop steps in the morning in short sections of ice on a snow field.

There is a whole thread about it from back then.
http://www.backcountry.net/arch/pct/0202/threads.html#00381



On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:49 PM,  <frooger1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> which fall are you talking about?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brick Robbins" <brick at fastpack.com>
> To: ned at pacificcrestcustombuilders.com, "PCT" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:13:13 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] crampons
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:07 PM,  <ned at pacificcrestcustombuilders.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi, Brick!
>>
>> I'd like to hear the story of that hiker's fall. Was it recently or a long
>> time ago?
>
> http://www.backcountry.net/arch/pct/0202/msg00380.html
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