The Daily Populous Friday October 11st, 2024 day edition
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YounomsayinMawfk on October 10th, 2024 at 19:19 UTC »

Moral of the story - and that's why you always leave a note!

Time_Distance2612 on October 10th, 2024 at 19:23 UTC »

He did pretty much everything wrong when it comes to canyoneering. Think of a drunk driver not wearing a seat belt, plunging down a ravine and then saving himself. Still unfathomable for me to cut my own arm off, but there is a context to his story.

elhoffgrande on October 10th, 2024 at 20:46 UTC »

Hey, fun story about this. My dad was the only surgeon in the nearby town of Moab, Utah, and he was on call the day that first responders found Mr. Ralston and they had contacted the local Talbot medical center for instructions. My dad had told them there wasn't anything that he could do for him here, and that he was going to need immediate access to high-level orthopedic surgery and plastic surgery and all that other stuff and the only place for that was going to be the much larger town of Grand junction about an hour by Life flight to the north. Bottom line is that he was taken by Life flight up there instead of treated locally, which was of course the right choice. But a couple years later, my dad watched an interview with him and his plastic surgeon on like 60 minutes or Good morning America or something. He jokes that if he'd know then that the guy was going to go on tour with his doctor Maybe he would have reconsidered passing on treating him.