[pct-l] Fatalities on the PCT?

[Jim & Jane Moody]

I think in '05 or '06 a guy drown after falling into a Sierra lake.  He was wearing snowshoes, I believe.  The Beer Poet told me about finding him.  Not sure if TBP was able to pull him out or not, but he was doa. 



Mango 



----- Original Message -----


From: "Brick Robbins" <brick at brickrobbins.com> 
To: "sabi" <noself at gmx.at> 
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net 
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 12:18:51 AM 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Fatalities on the PCT? 

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:56 AM, sabi <noself at gmx.at> wrote: 
> I am not scared and I don't want to worry people but I couldn't find any 
> statistics about fatal accidents on the PCT, only some anecdotal remarks 
> like the citation below? And for what reasons get hikers killed on the trail 
> - hypothermia, drowning, falling, infarct ...? 

This is a little bit of a problem because few of the people on the 
trail are thrus, so do you count the weekenders on the PCT? 

Offhand I can think of 5 fatalities for thrus since this list has been running. 

2 got hit by a car while road walking 
1 got lost on San Jacinto and apparently died of hypothermia 
1 slipped on a bad section of trail near Deep Creek and fell 
1 was trying to exit down New Army Pass in heavy snow conditions 
without an ice axe, slipped and fell, then died sometime later from 
his injuries - they found his body in his sleeping bag. 

I can't think of any others. Anyone else? 
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