Here is a picture of most of the 2009 Zion Backcountry staff. We just happened to be on a rescue together. A climber fell on Feast of Snakes or something like that. He went down about twenty feet onto his back. He was pretty messed up with some broken ribs and a ruptured spleen. We could not really tell because he handled it so toughly. I got to help him get packaged and lowered down from the cliff that he was on. I ran the main line lowering him down to the ground. After that the other team took over and lowered him down a steep slope. From there, the military picked him up in a blackhawk helicopter. I was very close to the action as the blackhawk was
hovering right next to us. They got him out of there without any issues and safely to the hospital. We hiked out the short distance back to the switchbacks and done with the rescue.
Here is a picture of most of the 2009 Zion Backcountry staff. We just happened to be on a rescue together. A climber fell on Feast of Snakes or something like that. He went down about twenty feet onto his back. He was pretty messed up with some broken ribs and a ruptured spleen. We could not really tell because he handled it so toughly. I got to help him get packaged and lowered down from the cliff that he was on. I ran the main line lowering him down to the ground. After that the other team took over and lowered him down a steep slope. From there, the military picked him up in a blackhawk helicopter. I was very close to the action as the blackhawk was 
hovering right next to us. They got him out of there without any issues and safely to the hospital. We hiked out the short distance back to the switchbacks and done with the rescue. 
2 comments:
Feast of Snakes?! Sounds like a crazy route. Just another day at the office, right?
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I've never really understood why we kept our badges and name tags on while we did those things.
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