Posted on 06/11/2019 2:06:21 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
An Oregon man was rescued after falling 800 feet into a caldera Monday afternoon and surviving, officials said.
The Coast Guard’s North Bend Sector received a call at 3:47 p.m. from the National Park Service that a man fell into the Crater Lake caldera near Rims Village, officials said in a press releasing, officials said.
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I want to be an Airborne Ranger live a life of sex and danger. One out of two ain’t bad.
thanks
Florida Man would DIVE into the caldera wearing a Cape and carrying an alligator...
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... and a beer in the other hand
Perhaps some day I’ll show you my bungee jumping picture...
This is just the first one this season. Generally there will be a few each year. Crater Lake Webcams:
https://www.nps.gov/crla/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm
I would like to see it!
There’s still a lot of snow up there as you can see in the linked story. He may have been sliding on snow most or even all the way, and that might be why he’s still alive. That, and the fact he apparently didn’t make it all the way into the water.
The stupid is strong with this one.
Crater Lake is the remaining vestige of Mount Mazama which blew its top and caldera 7,700 years ago. This exceedingly lucky man fell the equivalent of some 80 stories or so. Very few can survive that even into the water of this ex-caldera.
I remember the commercial for the movie, “The Crater Lake Monster.”
The MST3K guys ripped it hilariously.
OK, correct my above post for NOT BEING any kind of direct vertical fall and instead a sliding fall down a slope. That makes much more sense of his survival!
I was thinking snow, too. The area with easy access is on the South rim, so the associated caldera is north-facing.
North Bend was the nearest help? Damn.
There is a crater in Crater Lake but it’s the small one in the cinder cone on Wizard island. The big hole in the ground is a caldera.
Hah! 800’ = 7.052sec.
That’s fast!
150+ mph!...................
This morning’s revised news of this... It was Florida Man!
CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK — A Florida man who slipped on loose snow and nearly slid into the frigid waters of Crater Lake Monday afternoon was rescued and flown to a Bend hospital by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter.
The man, described only as 29 years old and from Florida, reportedly slid more than 800 feet down the caldera wall before coming to a stop in some trees about a hundred feet from the lake. He and friends were reportedly viewing the lake from a spot just west of Rim Village when the accident happened about 12:30 p.m. Monday.
“He jumped onto the snow, slipped and kept going,” said Crater Lake spokeswoman Marsha McCabe.
She said park staff quickly responded, sending a team of rangers rappelling down the caldera where they found the man. Other agencies, including the Jackson County Fire Department District 3 Technical Rope Rescue Team, assisted and were instrumental in the rescue. The man, whose injuries were not disclosed, was assisted into an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter provided by Coast Guard from North Bend, which hoisted him out of the caldera to Discovery Point about 6 p.m. He was transferred to an AirLink Critical Care Transport that flew him to Bend. There was no information about injuries.
“I think it was a great team effort by the park and partners who worked with us,” McCabe said.
She said park visitors should always exercise caution when viewing the lake, either from designated overlooks or, as happened Monday, from other rim viewpoints. “People should use caution and stay safely back,” McCabe urged, noting there is still a danger of potential snow cornices that, when stepped on, might collapse.
The park remains only partially accessible with only the South Entrance open. Snowplow crews have cleared snow from Rim Village along West Rim Drive nearly to the North Junction, which connects with the park’s North Entrance Road. No date has been set for opening the North Entrance, which allows visitors easier access in and out of the park.
It should have been obvious from the start.
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