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Everywhere Else / Re: The PCT Volume 42: The Blue and the Gray
« Last post by Brad Young on August 11, 2025, 11:18:07 AM »
My mom would be pretty unhappy with me if I didn’t do a trip report. I’m working on it while Vicki and I are slowly working our way south, climbing a bit, looking around a lot (Brian, Whitney and Charlotte’ house this evening).
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Everywhere Else / Re: The PCT Volume 42: The Blue and the Gray
« Last post by BAP on August 11, 2025, 10:32:01 AM »
Well done!  No trip report this time?
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Everywhere Else / Re: The PCT Volume 42: The Blue and the Gray
« Last post by Brad Young on August 10, 2025, 03:42:38 PM »
Yeehaw!!

We finished our 2025 session 79 miles from Canada.
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Masters of Mud -- Pinnacles / Re: Injury fall on Sunday, July 6th
« Last post by waldo on July 13, 2025, 07:51:52 AM »
Brad, thanks for following this up. Local news should never be fake news. I'll bitch to KSBW.
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Masters of Mud -- Pinnacles / Re: Injury fall on Sunday, July 6th
« Last post by Brad Young on July 12, 2025, 06:13:40 PM »
Bob, I texted Dan to see if he knew of anything else. This is what he said (posted with his permission):

"Hey Brad, great hearing from you. So, there was an incident at the park on July 5th. I was not there that day but I saw a post from the CHP Coastal Division Air Operations about them doing a hoist operation for an injured hiker on the Tunnel Trail. Pretty sure it wasn’t a climber. The person was hoisted into the helicopter and taken to a ground ambulance for transportation to a hospital. The incident at the Flumes was on Feb. 2nd. I’ll be at the park tomorrow and will check with Seth for additional details."
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Masters of Mud -- Pinnacles / Re: Injury fall on Sunday, July 6th
« Last post by Brad Young on July 12, 2025, 05:20:16 PM »
I have no explanation for why they would have run that then. If it was a new accident/injury (possible), then it's weirdly like the one that occurred three or four months ago. Same exact place, at least. That earlier incident had a TV news story that I saw and I swear it was this one.

I'd rather there be only one incident if there have to be any at all ;)

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Masters of Mud -- Pinnacles / Re: Injury fall on Sunday, July 6th
« Last post by waldo on July 12, 2025, 04:46:19 PM »
Brad,

Strange! Our local news broadcast this as if it just happened, helicopter and everything. I was out there on Sunday morning and hiked up to the top of Flumes. All was deserted and peaceful.
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Masters of Mud -- Pinnacles / Re: Injury fall on Sunday, July 6th
« Last post by Brad Young on July 11, 2025, 05:45:29 PM »
Bob, I think that the accident wasn't on Sunday, July 6th, it was several months ago (March of this year or so?). That's an old news story.

Dan, the safety volunteer on the West Side was one of the first people on the scene. As best as he could determine, this was a group of three, all young and very inexperienced (they'd been out once with an experienced climber and had decided to try climbing by themselves).

The leader, a young man, was on Lichen to Lead when he fell. For some reason, he wasn't caught by the belayer. It seems that he either didn't clip something correctly or that the belayer failed to hold the fall properly (their level of inexperience combined with the fact that Dan isn't a climber led to some very uncertain ideas about what exactly had happened). it sounded like he fell and then tumbled, with multiple impacts. He ended up at the base of the climb from 80 feet up.

Lots of lacerations and several broken bones (I don't recall which ones). All of the climbers were members of the U.S. Army who were attending one of the schools in Monterey. The young man who got hurt was treated for a week and then was able to go home to recover (not sure where home was for him).
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Masters of Mud -- Pinnacles / Injury fall on Sunday, July 6th
« Last post by waldo on July 10, 2025, 08:54:52 AM »
The report mentions Tilting Terrace. Has anyone heard which climb?

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Masters of Mud -- Pinnacles / Re: Climbing Advisories and Closures 2025 (Protection of Nesting Birds of Prey)
« Last post by Gavin on June 30, 2025, 03:04:44 PM »
Hey All -

I've lifted all climbing closures at the park for rest of the year, effective as of today (June 30).

The daytime temps are slowly climbing as the summer moves along, but there are some cooler days forecast in the near future - right now the high temp on July 4th is forecast to be only 85 degrees!
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