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Hiker rescued _
by Grouse patrol

Dear Editor:

Tam writing to clear up a
fow s centained ia your
article on the ifornia hiker
rescued on J
misleading to
well, the derai
effort reported in vour article
of Aug. 1, failed to outline the
extreme rescue e
by members of the Grouse
Mountain Safety Patrol to
extract the hiker from unsafe,
treacherous terrain, and thar
their response was as good
Samaritans,

The 37-year-old gentleman
did not go for “a hike up the
Grouse Grind... and take a
wrong turn on the Bluff trail.”
The Grouse Grind is a well-

vd trail that does not con-
h the unofficial “bluff?”
trail. rescued man was
hiking
Mountaineering
(BCMC) trail but fost “the

culty when he got offinto the
cliff band on the southwest
slope at the 3,000 foot fevel.
The general public does
not know the “blaff?. trail
it is not a formal trail;
it should be noted
‘unmarked and crosses
extremely dangerous terrain.
Our statf, which maintains
the portion of the Grind that
we are responsible for, heard
the genteman’s voice and
Grouse Mounrain’s Safe
Patrol was alerted and subse-
quently dispatched immediate-
ly to the scene. After voice
contact was established and
the hikers exact location
determined, North Shore
Search and Rescue was alerted
while three fully qualified
Grouse Mountain Safety

patrol members and a tourth
patroller, gathered rope rescue
equipment and head: rte
the terrain to begin the rescue
efforts.

Your article failed to men-
tion that the reason it took the
safety patrol} an hour and a half
to get to the unidentified man
was due to the nature of the
terrain and the location of the
subject; positioned amongst
the gully and chi bands

rty patrol reached the s

and through a techni
rope rescue, including a series
of rope belays and climbing,
skills, was raising the hiker
back when NSR joined them
and assisted in completing the
evacuation with a second rope-
raising system.

I teel it's important to
address the face that Grouse
Mountain's Safety Patrol
members, headed by Dave
Faleon (stated Faulkner in
your article) exposed th
selves to very steep and dan-
gerous terrain to assist a hiker
that was stranded on GVRD
owned and operated land.
These facts appear to be over-
looked in the story that your
readers have been given.

Ve have always remained
very accessible co the media,
especially to the News. Grouse
Mountain would have appre
ated receiving a call to v1
the facts. Instead it appears to
your readers that our staff was
extremely slow to respond and
the *“NSR made it te the s
ject using rope bela
clinybing skills,” when in fact it
was our own experienced safe-
ty patrol.

Stuart O. McLaughlin,
President
Grouse Mountain

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