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SEATTLE MOUNTAIN RESCUE RESCUE BERGTRAGE - JULY 2011 Seattle Mountain Rescue’s Annual Summer Party! July 28th 5:00 – Whenever SMR's annual summer party will be July 28th 5:00 till whenever. That's a Thursday night, in order to accommodate everybody's weekend climbing schedules. It is (as is tradition) going to be a SWEET BBQ at Bill Robinson's house (for the 36th year). Bill's got a house on Mercer Island with a lovely lawn/patio/ boat house combo and there will be a variety of water craft available and possibly a float plane giving rides. WHAT TO BRING: If your last name starts with A – L please bring a side dish, last names M – Z bring a dessert. Can’t cook? Bring beer/ beverages instead. Significant others/spouses/kids/friends should definitely come. Come get to know your fellow mountain rescuer before you find your life in their hands, AND a little bird told me they're going to try throwing Caley in the lake again. Should be fun to see. Here’s Bill’s address: 8084 Avalon Dr , Mercer Island, WA 98040. Call me with questions: 206 919 6240. Bree ‘Trage March-September 1977 IT’S IT’S SUMMER SUMMER PICNIC PICNIC TTIME TT IME AGAIN AGAIN Looks like this was Chris’s first MRC mission from the Dec 1977 “Trage: 4
SEATTLE MOUNTAIN RESCUE RESCUE BERGTRAGE - JULY 2011 HEARD/SEEN HEARD/SEEN HEARD/SEEN AROUND AROUND TH THE TH E CAMPFIRE CAMPFIRE Once again the Editor had to rely on Facebook for something to report in this gossip column. One of the most prolific Faces is naturally Bree who we see here decked out what they say is a “boa” - and I thought a “boa” was a snake! And here she is again with Jessica on Mt Stuart. Boas are obviously very glamorous, but they shed like crazy. Everybody is going to wonder what kind of giant pink bird got blown in and pulverized. Bree heading out, the Master of route finding crevase fields. “I was the master of the kick step post hole” she says. Livin' the dream! Our travelling student Brianna in Prescott, AZ says “sometimes climbing NEEDS shimmer shorts and fairy wings!” And here she is making he own sleeping quarters in her truck. Rumor has it that she will be heading soon to study in Alaska. She’s ready for climbing in Alaska but is Alaska ready for HER? Brianna also got in on the Rattlesnake rescue here on June 29th. Our professional “globe trotter” Doug Pierson Spent an entertaining evening in Frankfurt watching a Russian version of People's Court w/o English subtitles. And, just learned that despite how cool it is to be at 9,000m and connected to the Internet via Lufthansa, somewhere over Hudson Bay the signal gets jumpy. He then represented SMR at the MRA Spring Conference in Denver then headed to Redoubt Bay via Anchorage to watch Brown Bear hunt for running salmon. This is a BARN? You gotta be kiddin! It’s bigger than the house of the typical SMR persons living in North Bend! Kecia’s horses are livin it up “first class.” .... sink, toilet, shower, and commercial sized washer/dryer for horse blankets! The barn exterior is stained - looks really pretty. Glor Van De Bist and Mandy arrived Tuesday or Wednesday to take up residence - only thing left is paddock fencing and some tongue-andgroove finish work in the tack room and bathroom. On June 25, Russ and Doug McCall and who else? were seen or barely seen on a ski climb of Mt Roosevelt shown here.. Elevation: 5835 ft / 1779 m Russ Doug OTHER OTHER RESCUES RESCUES IN IN IN THE THE NEWS NEWS SAR was never called for these two rescues handled by fire and rescue. Exit 38 Climbing Area - On June 10th a rock climber suffered a serious leg injury when he fell 60 to 90 feet late Friday afternoon. Medics said the 21year-old man fell while climbing in an area near exit 38 off of Interstate 90 around 5 pm. It took rescue crews nearly two and a half hours to move the man in the rocky terrain and get him to a landing zone. He was then airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with serious but non-life threatening injuries. It was not known what had caused the man to fall. 5 (Continued on page 6)
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