northeast newswire // SANDBAGS, DIRTBAGS AND FAST DESCENTS
Climber Falls into Vermot Cave In August, an unroped climber fell 15 feet to the bottom of the Weybridge Caves in Weybridge, Vt. Middlebury Technical Rescue and Vermont Cave Rescue Team spent 14 hours getting to the climber. The teams had to cut a path in the rock in order to reach the trapped climber. He sustained only an ankle fracture.
Accidents in Acadia In April, a climber took a 20-foot ground fall, sustaining severe injuries. Then, in June, a rope broke over a sharp edge, and a guide and client fell 25 feet, landing on another climber. The guide was unharmed, one client broke an elbow and another injured a hip. Later in the summer, a guide was lowered off the end of his rope falling 40 feet and sustaining head injuries.
No Clipping Bolts on Dolt and Jolt Rumney Climbers Association (RCA) has closed the two routes because of serious rock fall danger. RCA has placed warning signs near the routes, padlocked the first bolt of Jolt and removed Dolt’s first bolt. It is unclear if or when the two routes will be opened again.
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