NEWS photo Mike Wokefield

= LIONS Bay Search and Rescue members are frustrated by the lack of preparation
a hikers in the area of the Lions peaks undertake. ©: Carry flashlights, say searchers.

ions rescues

By lan Noble

z News Reporter :
oo FRUSTRATED --
“, searchers want hikers to

_show. more respect for
the Lions.

ag Three separate rescues over’.
“a - six-day: period: recently. on-
trails leading. to. ‘the’: peaks «”

ld” have ‘all been “avoided

said | sau Bay Search: and:
spokesman Owen

basically for he same reason,”
ie Said. equipped hik
allowing sufficient.time

complete their hikes; getting
by: ni fal) “and, not +»
West ‘Lion, but ‘did: not reach

having flashlights.”

“Hikers; he said, “just go up °

. “shorts and ‘run:
“ning ‘shoes’ and ‘see ;it’.as an
xtension of Stank j-Park.”

Flashlights: would allow hik-

ontinue down the:
in the’ dark: Jones ‘said niany

‘hikers start too late for the hike,’
which he ‘estimates a person of

verage fitness takes’ 10° hours
to complete.
: The -Binkert™ Trail ‘starts at
-the top‘of Lions Bay.and rises
“to: more’ than 1,500 metres.
When ‘the ‘sun, goes down, it

-Unprepared, hikers a problem

"gets cool at the top.

He said Lions Bay Search
and Rescue members are tired
and frustrated by the rescues.

Most rescuers joined the volun- -

teer organization to help well-
equipped hikers who have had

‘bad luck; equipment problems

or who have been ¢aught bya
change in weather;'said Jones.

“Now, it is becoming a

baby-sitting service.”
A. Saturday. night search

: resulted ; Jin. res cue members

finding two lost hikers at 3:30
amin, ‘the Harvey Creek area.

" Marey Friedel _of Burnaby
‘and)'Al’ Price. of Vancouver
clifabed: the: summit; of the

the sop until 8 p.m.

By that point-in time they .
had. less*‘than one hour of

‘usable ligist to make their way
back,” nid Jones. The hikers
scrambled down Binkert Trail

but darkness caught ‘up to.

them: id they became fost.
On - Aug. 8, Donald

McGinn'was reported missing’

“in. the .area of West Lion.
Searchers “found the '42-year-

‘ald? in ‘the Harvey Creek
~ drainage basin Friday morning.
: Hie was just, wearing shorts, a

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when found.
. Earlier, three hikers stum-

; bled out of the bush the morn-

ing of Aug. 6 after 22 searchers
had spent the night iooking for
them.

The most’ recent rescue’
occurred Wednesday night. A
hiker without a map ended up
lost and in the Harvey Creek
drainage area. The Vancouver

man had a cell phone. When

searchers found him, “he +as
in an ugly spor,” said Jones. He
called“ the Harvey Creek

‘ drainage a natural catchment

area for lost-hikers in the area.
He said the area gets progres-
sively steeper until it becomes

vertical. By that. time, hikers
have clambered down cliffs and

waterfalls and can’t go back .
Locating . the ©” hiker:
Wednesday was _ difficult
because of the many gullies in
the area, said Jones. '
Two - volunteer searchers
have suffered minor injuries on

‘the searches. A third was so

exhausted. after a second‘ all-
night rescuc that he fell asleep
while driving home. Luckily, he
didn’t injure himself and -his
truck sustained minor damage.

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He will deliver his message to the annual
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The five-day conference will be attended:
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