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- From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: [l/m 8/19/1992] Morbid backcountry/memorial: Distilled Wisdom (16/28) XYZ
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- Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 12:20:17 GMT
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- Reply-To: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
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- Panel 16
-
- Ways to die involving the backcountry. Nurturing Mother Nature?
- Hardly.
-
- Most frequent: car accident going to or from a backcountry trip.
- Alcohol related (frequently).
-
- Plane crash. Flip over, equipment malfunction, pilot error, fatigue, etc.
-
- Struck by lightning.
-
- Falling off a rock.
- Getting hit by a falling rock.
- Natural rock fall
- Man induced rock fall.
- Getting hit by a wall of snow.
- Falling into a crevice.
- Other miscellaneous falling objects (trees, human objects, etc.).
-
- Exhaustion
- Loss of judgment from secondary affects
-
- Drowning.
- Canoe (any boat) capsizes in high waves, etc.
- slip on a rock lining a canoe up rapids
- slip on a rock fording a rapid (hikers)
- Drowning because of a bad belay on a stream crossing.
-
- Bit or stung by
- Bees (allergies)
- Spiders
- Snakes: Rattlers, water moccasin
- Jelly fish
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- Poisoning
- Shell fish
- Mushrooms
- Contaminated food
-
- Being eaten by:
- Shark
- Don't get in the water
- Lion and tigers and bears, oh my!
- Alligators
- Ants (slowly)
-
- Disease
- Plague from flea infested squirrels
- Rocky Mountain Spotted fever from ticks
-
- Skiing, cycling, driving into a tree
-
- Explosions involving stoves, fire, etc.
- Accidental gun shot (dropping)
- Gun accident (being shot by partners)
- 1990:
- Total firearms-relating hunting accidents - 1,564
- Total two-party fatalities - 99
- Total self-inflicted fatalities - 47
- Total non-fatal, two-party injuries - 988
- Total non-fatal, self-inflicted injuries - 430
-
- Starvation
-
- Hypothermia
- Frostbite
- Hyperthermia
- Dehyration
-
- Breaking thru thin icy waterways
- Drowning
- Hypothermia
- Loss of essential equipment
-
- Swimming, rowing accident
- Alcohol related
-
- Evolution in action.
- Selected against.
-
- ran across traffic injury accident statistics for the state of California.
- I don't claim that these are representative of the country as a whole. I
- also wish they were more comprehensive, in terms of breaking bicycle
- injuries down by age of cyclist and fault on the accident itself.
- But they're all I could find on short notice.
-
- Collision with: Accidents Deaths Injuries
-
- Car 153829 1897 258732
- Object 33614 1471 45175
- Pedestrian 17014 956 17493
- No collision 13029 553 17384
- Bicycle 15187 126 15692
- Parked car 6817 108 8645
- All others* 1712 62 2637
-
- Total 241202 5173 365758
-
- Interestingly, on a per accident basis, you're more likely to be killed
- in a car-car accident(1:81.1 accidents) than a car-bike accident(1:120.5).
- Also, the ratio of injuries to deaths is only slightly better for car-car
- accidents (1:136.4) than for car-bike (1:124.5). This is particularly
- striking to me, because we don't have a ton of steel to protect us.
- The lower speed of travel seems to outweigh our vulnerability to injury.
-
- I interpret the low injury-to-accident ratio for car-bike accidents to
- mean that for all practical purposes drivers don't get hurt by hitting
- a bicyclist. I assume that in every case the bicyclist was injured, and
- perhaps even more than one bicyclist. Even if it's only one bicyclist
- per accident, that's only one car occupant injured in every thirty
- accidents.
-
-
- "After seeing this series, I can't see why anyone would want to go to
- a National Park." --Comment made by the wife of a climbing partner
- after seeing the short-lived TV series "Sierra."
-
- =====
-
- This part is for our friends, family, acquaintances, and heros who have
- passed away. Regardless of whether they died climbing, travelling,
- to or from climbing, or in their sleep. They were people who pushed limits.
- Our friends will be missed. We remember them here.
-
- Bill Drake
- John Harlin, II
- Bill "Dolt" Feuerer
- Wally Henry
- Mark Allen Losso
- Mike Blake
- John Mokri
- Tim Harrison
- Peter Barton
- Ben Factor
- Gary Gissendaner
- Nick Estcourt
- Don Partridge
- Arkel Erb
- Tobin Sorensen
- Steve Jensen
- Thomas Mutch
- Jay Veenheusen
- Ted Flinn
- Art van Eenenaam
- Mark Hoffman
- Harry Glicken
- Conor Milliff
- Art Caulkins
- Robert Sinnock
- Charles Daffinger
- Bob Godfrey
- Dave Simonett
- Chuck Wilts
- John Yablonski
- R. Scott Rogers
- Roland Pettit
- John High
- Jim Harshman
- Tom Shirley
- Chris Rowe
- Ron Palmer
- Bob Locke
- Eric Dirksen
- Charlie Jenkewitz
- Rob Dellinger
- Peter Fisher
-
-
- In admiration:
- George Leigh Mallory
- A. F. Mummery
- H. W. 'Bill' Tilman
- Walter Starr, Jr.
- Hermann Buhl
- Jim Baldwin
- Norman Clyde
- Larry Williams
- Don Jensen
- Don Sheldon
- Ian Clough
- Dougal Haston
- Don Whillans
- Gary Ullin
- Marty Hoey
- John Cunningham
- Bill March
- Naomi Uemura
- Sheridan Anderson
- Dave Johnston
- Leigh Ortenburger
- P. S. Lovejoy
- Nanda Devi Unsoeld
- Joe Tasker
- Peter Boardman
- Mick Burke
- Ome Daiber
-
- Lord, guard and guide the men who fly
- Through the great spaces in the sky.
- Be with them always in the air
- In darkening storm or sunlight fair.
- Oh hear us when we lift our prayer
- Or hold in peril in the air. Amen.
-
- HIGH FLIGHT
- by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
-
- Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
- And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
- Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
- Of sun-split clouds--and done a thousand things
- You have not dreamed of--wheeled and soared and sung
- High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
- I've chased the shouting wind along and flung
- My eager craft through footless halls of air
- Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
- I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
- Where never lark, or even eagle flew
- And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
- The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
-
- TABLE OF CONTENTS of this chain:
-
- 16/ Morbid backcountry <* THIS PANEL *>
- 17/ Information about bears
- 18/ Poison ivy, frequently ask, under question
- 19/ Lyme disease, frequently ask, under question
- 20/ "Telling questions" backcountry Turing test (under construction)
- 21/ AMS
- 22/ Words from Foreman and Hayduke
- 23/ A bit of song (like camp songs)
- 24/ What is natural?
- 25/ A romantic notion of high-tech employment
- 26/ Other news groups of related interest, networking
- 27/ Films/cinema references
- 28/ References (written)
- 1/ DISCLAIMER
- 2/ Ethics
- 3/ Learning I
- 4/ learning II (lists, "Ten Essentials," Chouinard comments)
- 5/ Summary of past topics
- 6/ Non-wisdom: fire-arms topic circular discussion
- 7/ Phone / address lists
- 8/ Fletcher's Law of Inverse Appreciation and advice
- 9/ Water Filter wisdom
- 10/ Words from Rachel Carson
- 11/ Snake bite
- 12/ Netiquette
- 13/ Questions on conditions and travel
- 14/ Dedication to Aldo Leopold
- 15/ Leopold's lot.
-
- From: tamada@cheshire.oxy.edu (Michael K. Tamada)
- Subject: Yet More Cougar Attack Statistics, and Dog Statistics Too
-
- The LA Times this Sunday had a feature article on cougars/mountain
- lions/pumas. According to the article, there have been 11 deaths caused
- by cougars in the US and Canada over the past 100 years. This is compared
- to 12 deaths by lightning per year and 40 deaths by bee sting per year.
- On the other hand, the rate of human/cougar interactions has been
- rising in recent years -- partly because housing keeps getting built
- in their habitat, but also because cougar populations have been
- recovering in several areas (e.g. a cougar was spotted in Nebraska for
- the first time in several decades).
- The article also had some statistics on pet dog/cougar interactions
- around some town, Boulder I think. There have been 37 such "interactions"
- in the past x years, and as the author of the article put it, "so far
- the score is cougars 15, dogs 0."
-
- --Mike Tamada
- Occidental College
- tamada@oxy.edu
-
-