Monday, August 21, 2017 Eclipse day
Search and Rescue team leaders had just finished meeting working on the Curriculum/requirements for Rope Rescue 2 certification.
The full team had just gathered for a scheduled training on ascending and descending ropes.
This call out came:
RESCUE: Two 17 year old aspiring canyoneers with new equipment but no helmets were trapped with no rope on a nice flat pillar on the east side of The Great White Icicle. The subsequent rappel was 160 feet.
CALL OUT TIME: 7:00 PM
DURATION: 4 hours 2 minutes
WEATHER: Warm and Clear
OTHER RESOURCES INVOLVED:
UPD
WHAT HAPPENED: Salt Lake County Search and Rescue responded to a callout for two teenage canyoneers whose rope management skills has left them stranded on a pillar 400 feet above the canyon highway on Great White Icicle in Little Cottonwood Canyon. They had rappelled down the first 500 feet of waterfalls. One rescue team ascended the 900 feet of elevation to the top of the route arriving in the dark. Another team attempted to locate a way up from the bottom. The Department of Public Safety helicopter crew was able to skid load two rescue team members onto the pillar. These rescuers gave the victims instructions and then one person per trip at a time assisted them to skid load into the fully powered up helicopter which flew them to a valley parking lot.