Okay. So. been an eventful two days back in AZ.
Went off to west clear creek canyon with my dad.
Got to our campsite, and not an hour after we got there, a girl comes up to our camp asking if we have have a phone. She told us that a guy in his forties had taken about a twenty foot rappelling fall and broken both of his ankles. So they get the guy to our camp, and we lay him down on our pads and sleeping bags. My dad ran up the trail out of the canyon and called emergency services. After he gets back down, the firefighters show up and stabilize the guy (His name was Buck) and then told him there was an air evac on it's way to helicopter him out of the canyon.
End of story, right? Wrong.
The helicopter gets over the canyon, makes an assessment of possible LZ's and decides there is no safe area to airlift the guy out. So Search and Rescue gets called out and they show up with a litter, which is like a stretcher, but with no wheels, and has to be carried by people. We get him on the stretcher, and then me, my dad, and the fire team proceed to take turns carrying this guy on the tiny trail out of the canyon. It took us two hours of sweating, slow moving, and navigating to get him out safely. Once we got to the top, they hoofed him off and onto a DPS helicopter which took him off to Flagstaff's hospital for medical care. We then drove his buddy to his car so he could get up to flag to see his friend.
We got home around 1:30. I'm scratched up, poison ivied, and sore all over, but it was worth it. I got to rescue a guy. I feel more manly overall.
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