Hope Through Tragedy on the PacificCrest Trail - Doug Laher
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A special thank you to Doug Laher for being willing to share this story with us and others to help create a conversation around hiker safety and the use of risk mitigation skills when enjoying the great outdoors.
This episode is very close to my heart as the Pacific Crest Trail was a major part of making me who I am today. This story is of a tragic accident that took place on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2020. For those who follow information from the trail on a regular basis, you may very well remember the young man who fell to his death that year in late March. With all the access to incredible wilderness areas through trail systems, it has never been a better time to be a lover of the great outdoors. But with that being said, the wilderness is still rugged and dangerous. Even the most skilled hikers, backpackers, and mountaineers of the world are taking a risk when entering the wild mountainous regions of the world. Today’s story is a tragic cautionary tale, but it’s also a story of a man who is using this tragedy as a way to bring awareness to the dangers of the wilderness, and hopefully, through his story, can help you or someone you love enjoy the incredible world that has been given to us, safely.
Links from the episode: RMRU – www.rmru.org Fowler-O’Sullivan Foundation – wwwe.fofound.org PCTA – www.pcta.org Alta Magazine - https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a34785167/accident-pacific-crest-trail-louise-farr/ Trevor’s Eternal Trail - https://thetrek.co/pacific-crest-trail/trevors-eternal-trail/