[pct-l] Falling Fatality in Three-Fingered Jack

[chelin at teleport.com (Sharon & Chuck Chelin)]

Hillsboro woman killed in a fall 
The Portland Oregonian, Monday, July 25, 2005 
Authorities identified the 23-year-old Hillsboro woman who died Saturday after climbing Three-Fingered Jack mountain in Linn County as Kathryn Michele Tinnesand. 

Tinnesand was with a group that had finished the climb about 2 p.m. Saturday. 

Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller said the woman fell about 700 feet from a ledge while returning down a trail. The mountain is in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness Area. 



Former Hillsboro woman, 23, dies in mountain climbing accident 
The Hillsboro Argus, Tuesday, July 26, 2005 
A 23-year-old former Hillsboro woman died Saturday afternoon when she fell 700 feet off Three-Fingered Jack, a peak in the central Oregon Cascades. 

Kathryn Michele Tinnesand was among a group of three climbers who reached the 7,841-foot peak around 2 p.m. Saturday. They were on their way down the mountain's south ridge when Tinnesand fell off a ledge below the summit, according to Linn County Sheriff's reports. 

Witnesses said she slipped on some loose rock, then slid over the ledge. A climber from another party below Tinnesand's group made his way over to her, but reports said she was deceased by the time he reached her.