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October 17, 2010
‘Nobody saw what happened. They heard Bob yell.’
Hiker killed in national park Ram attacks PA man on Klahhane trail
Park officials knew goat was aggressive
By Diane Urbani and Tom Callis
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OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Bob Boardman of Port Angeles, a devoted hiker, diabetes nurse and musician, was killed by a mountain goat on Klahhane Ridge on Saturday afternoon. Boardman, 63, his wife, Susan Chadd, and their friend, Pat Willits, had gone for a day hike on the Switchback Trail to Klahhane Ridge, which is near Hurricane Ridge about 17 miles south of Port Angeles. The three had stopped for lunch at an overlook when a goat appeared and moved toward them, said Jessica Baccus, who arrived on the scene at about 1:20 p.m. Baccus, also out for a day hike with her husband and their children, saw Willits, her longtime friend, coming up the trail. Willits told Baccus that when the goat had begun behaving aggressively, Boardman had urged her and Chadd to leave the scene. Then Boardman, an experienced hiker, tried to carefully shoo the ram away. Willits told Baccus that although Boardman tried also to
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Robert Boardman pauses during a hike in Olympic National Park last year. leave, the goat attacked him, goring him in the thigh. “Nobody saw what actually happened. They heard Bob yell,” Baccus said. The goat stayed, standing over Boardman, who lay on the ground bleeding. Bill Baccus, a park ranger not
on duty but familiar with mountain goat behavior, moved forward with a safety blanket and shook it at the goat, he said. He also pelted it with rocks, and after what seemed like a long time, “it moved away, but it stayed close by,” Jessica Baccus said. Turn
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OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The mountain goat that killed a 63-year-old Port Angeles man Saturday was no stranger to Olympic National Park rangers. Barb Maynes, park spokeswoman, said the ram was known for its aggressive behavior, including reports of it following people along the trails around Klahhane Ridge. The park had been monitoring the ram for “the last several years,” she said. Bob Boardman, who died after the animal gored him in the leg, was the first person that the park knows of being attacked by the ram or any of the park’s other goats, which number about 300. Maynes said the park had tried hazing the ram — by shooting it with bean bags, throwing rocks and other means to induce it to be frightened of people — but stopped short of any plans to kill it. “We had no reports of any kind of incidents escalating above the point that would warrant [killing the ram],” Maynes said. An animal would be killed, she said, if it had made “physical contact” with someone. Rangers shot and killed the
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A mountain goat wearing a radio collar grazes at Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park in this 2008 photo. Another gored a hiker Saturday. ram, which was about eight or nine years old, about an hour after Saturday’s attack. They identified the animal after seeing blood on it, Maynes said. She said the park had focused on educating trail users about the aggressive ram by posting warnings at trailheads and providing flyers at park buildings. The signs will remain, Maynes said, since it’s possible that other goats have shown aggressive behavior. The park recommends staying 100 feet from all wildlife. Turn
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PT harpist gets return gig when new ferry debuts By Jeff Chew
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PORT TOWNSEND — Celtic harpist David Michael, who performed for 17 years on the Port Townsend-Coupeville ferry route, will make a return performance at the MV Chetzemoka’s inaugural sailing celebration on Sunday, Nov. 14. But instead of being on board the new 64-car vessel, Michael will pluck his harp strings at the Port Townsend ferry terminal. “I will be playing in the cold November parking lot,” Michael said with a chuckle. “I am still banished from the boat.” Michael, who still feels he was left out in the cold in 2007, said the invitation to perform outdoors at the Chetzemoka’s dedication was nice but somewhat symbolic. For years, he performed during the summer months aboard the ferry Klickitat, which was one of the Steel Electric ferries pulled from the Port Townsend-Whidbey Island route for safety reasons in November 2007. Michael discontinued busking aboard the ferry on Aug. 13, 2007, after passenger complaints led Washington State Ferries officials to require that the Port Townsend
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musician be treated like any other passenger under tightened homeland security requirements. That meant Michael, then 55 and suffering from back trouble, must take his 30-pound harp and pack CDs on and off each of eight departures and arrivals at the Tad Sooter/North Kitsap Herald Port Townsend and Keystone ter- Traffic at right backs up on northbound State Highway 3 in Kitsap County last week minals, as required under the during a Hood Canal Bridge opening for marine traffic. Coast Guard-enforced homeland security policy. He also was no longer allowed to sell his CDs aboard the ferry because such sales are against the state ferries system’s policy without a proper permit.
Hood Canal Bridge delays raise ire on both sides of waterway
Invited to perform David Moseley, state deputy transportation secretary for ferries, invited Michael to perform at the Nov. 14 ceremony. Michael’s wife, Dari Lewis, had written the official asking him if Michael could do so. “David has been given the option to perform on the Port Townsend dock space during the open house period,” ferry system spokeswoman Marta Coursey said. Turn
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PORT GAMBLE — When the Hood Canal Bridge opens to let boats pass, traffic backs up for miles on both sides. Local drivers are trapped in the mix. Residents along Hood Canal ease out of their driveways through gaps in traffic. “There isn’t anyone who lives along this stretch of [state] HighHarpist/A6 way 3 that hasn’t had a close call,”
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resident Gerry Guertin said. Frustration over traffic congestion and bridge noise have spurred Guertin and about 50 of his neighbors to organize the Hood Canal Bridge Alliance this year. The group plans to push state and local representatives to find solutions. Following two community meetings this spring, the group launched a website — www.hood canalbridgealliance.org — to draw more supporters from both sides
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of the spanned waterway. The group wants a bridge holding lane installed on state Highway 3 to allow local residential drivers to get around traffic during bridge openings. There’s already a small traffic pullout on westbound state Highway 104 near Port Gamble. Bridge noise is another complaint for residents who live along the waterfront near the span.
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