July - Seattle Mountain Rescue

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.
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