[chief lee runamok]

A fortunate Oregon man.

Swimming is allowed only in small section of Crater Lake.

[Candor7]

Taking a selfie?

[mplc51]

800 feet belly flop?

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[seawolf101]

Oregon Man must be one of Florida Man’s relatives.

[MrEdd]

Oregon Man is such a cheap knockoff.
Florida Man would DIVE into the caldera wearing a Cape and carrying an alligator...

[bigbob]

He’ll probably kill himself for real if no one recorded that for YouTube.

[Steve Van Doorn]

This is an older video of Crater Lake in Oregon (Rim Village)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jOLoP_lgOU

[VR-21]

A long time ago, a friend and I foolishly climbed down to the water from the rim and were very nearly killed by a rock slide. A breathtakingly beautiful place, but dangerous for idiots like myself.

[lee martell]

It takes a few minutes to fall 800 feet, I would presume.
I guess those public trails aren’t marked as dangerous.

There must be a deep body of water all the way down to cushion his fall, but not too deep.
If he had hit the water surface tummy first, it would have been all over.

[bgill]

Lemme guess. Too stupid to stay on the well marked trail. Too stupid to watch where he was going. Too stupid trying to get the most over the top selfie. Another stupid hiker in a long list of stupid hikers. Too stupid in general that he risked rescuers’ time and lives.

[FlyFisher]

Gravity once again rears it’s ugly head.

I’m guessing that the rescuers were rappelling. Not clear. It says the helicopter aircrew heard him yelling from another 200 feet below. They didn’t hear him from the helicopter. They are quite loud.

[righttackle44]

Well, if you're running from bigfoot, you gotta go somewhere.

[Fresh Wind]

Was he pushed in by Florida Man?

[Rio]

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

[SES1066]

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.

[RandallFlagg]

I remember the commercial for the movie, “The Crater Lake Monster.”
The MST3K guys ripped it hilariously.

[gundog]

North Bend was the nearest help? Damn.

[Paal Gulli]

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.

[Rio]

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.

https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/local_news/man-rescued-from-crater-lake-caldera/article_d771265e-74c9-5113-b091-ab3fb92a1e50.html