By noon the storm intensified with heavy rain and hail. About an hour later it began raining and the team on Super Pooper talked about bail options. At 10:30 a team on nearby Super Pooper (5.10b) saw Escobar and Walsh leading above Pine Tree Ledge, the finish of the third pitch. The weather appeared good with few clouds. Escobar and Walsh said they would climb Dave’s Deviation, a three-pitch 5.9 first climbed by Tom Frost and Royal Robbins in 1960. (Photo: James Eckhardt/RMRU)Īccording to the RMRU report, Escobar and Walsh passed a party of four climbers just below Lunch Rock on the final section of the approach trail. Overview of the West Face of Tahquitz Rock noting locations where evidence was found. On July 4 of this year RMRU responded to a fatal soloing accident when Scott Miller, 27, of Redlands, California, fell while soloing near The Trough. RMRU, along with Riverside Sheriff’s department responded to a 911 call last Wednesday from Tahquitz Rock, a popular and historic granite crag several hours east of Los Angeles when they found Escobar and Walsh deceased near the start of The Trough (5.4), a three-pitch route and Tahquitz’s first technical rock climb, established by Jim Smith, Bob Brinton, and Z. A broken rappel-anchor sling was also to blame for the March 26 death of Tina Fiori, 50, at Joshua Tree National Park. Riverside Mountain Rescue (RMRU) is an all-volunteer force with some 30 members operating in the Riverside, California, area. The report was based on an examination of the climbing gear used by Escobar and Walsh, pull tests on the broken sling, and an on-sight survey of the route. Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+Īccording to an accident analysis by Riverside Mountain Rescue, an old, degraded fixed sling around a tree broke as Gavin Escobar was on rappel, causing he and Chelsea Walsh to fall several hundred feet to the base of Tahquitz Rock on September 28.
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