[pct-l] Fatalities on the PCT?

[Prapanna Smith]

Yes, that was at Evolution Lake in early July.  I did the JMT that year and met Bob Kennan, who was the ranger in that area that year, and he said he was notified that a backpack was in the lake.  When he went there he found the body of a man there.  He tried to walk across the end of the snow covered lake, wearing snowshoes, and fell through.

Prapanna

On Apr 16, 2012, at 5:40 AM, Jim & Jane Moody wrote:

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> 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. 
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> Mango 
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> 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? 
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> 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 ...? 
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> 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? 
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> Offhand I can think of 5 fatalities for thrus since this list has been running. 
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> 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. 
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> I can't think of any others. Anyone else? 
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