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Nelson's Ledges - my cache there!
Ed_S on Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:53 pm
Gonna promote my own cache, whether it's in poor taste or not! I've had lots of compliments on it, so I want to urge those who haven't made the trip that far out to go give it a shot!
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=0b760744-10ff-445c-924f-a4c3497e16cc
Like many folks, I have good memories of Nelson's Ledges as a kid. A while ago, I put a multi there, that takes you all over the park, including near both waterfalls in the park. If you're not Spiderman, you only need to be able to walk on the Moderate rated trails to hit all the stages of this cache. If you want to cut down on some of the distance between a couple of the stages, there are shorter (but more demanding) ways.
Some of you who know me may have heard this story before, but some haven't, so I'm telling it again.
When I was making my first trip to Nelson's Ledges, so I could research locations for the stages, I got myself involved in a little adventure that made me want to remind everyone how risky those cliffs can be. As I was driving on Rte 305 on my way to the park, I saw a police car heading toward me, with red lights and siren on. I lost him over a hill, and soon came to Rte 282, where I turned north, to go to the park. I found the police car, just stopping by one of the trails leading into the park. As I swung into the parking lot, a fire truck pulled up. An ambulance arrived, soon after. So me being me, I followed the emergency personnel up the trail and into the park. I met a group of emergency workers attending to a young woman who was laying in the creek just below the first of the falls that my cache will take you near (but not too near!!). I introduced myself and identified myself as a career firefighter with 20 years of experience as an Emergency Medical First Responder. They first asked me to interview the young woman's friend, and get information from her about the victim. That's what I do at work when we go on a medical call, if I'm not needed to lend a hand in the care and treatment of the patients, I gather information for my run report. So I got the name, age, medical history, and so on, and learned that the two young women had been hiking and climbing, and at one point they were up on top of the falls. The victim wanted to look down, so she leaned against a tree and looked down. She slipped. She fell down to the creekbed below. The friend climbed down, realized the victim was seriously hurt, and phoned for help. By the time I was done talking to the friend, they had the victim in a Stokes basket - the rigid plastic basket you often see used for rescues on TV, hanging from a helicopter or being hoisted up a mountain, or something. We formed a group of 8 and carried her out to the ambulance. The trail is narrow in spots, so we had four carrying the Stokes basket, and four more in front of us. When we got to a narrow spot, we simply passed the Stokes forward to the others, and then at the next opportunity we got ahead of them, so at the next narrow spot they passed her back to us. We put the victim in the ambulance and they left to rendezvous with a Life Flight helicopter, which took the victim to a Cleveland hospital. I never heard how she did, but the next day one of the park rangers phoned me to thank me for getting involved and helping out.
So, needless to say, I had no trouble getting this cache approved! But it did serve as a reminder of what can happen out there. People get hurt, or worse, at Nelson's Ledges every year. Be careful out there!!
Ed_S
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=0b760744-10ff-445c-924f-a4c3497e16cc
Like many folks, I have good memories of Nelson's Ledges as a kid. A while ago, I put a multi there, that takes you all over the park, including near both waterfalls in the park. If you're not Spiderman, you only need to be able to walk on the Moderate rated trails to hit all the stages of this cache. If you want to cut down on some of the distance between a couple of the stages, there are shorter (but more demanding) ways.
Some of you who know me may have heard this story before, but some haven't, so I'm telling it again.
When I was making my first trip to Nelson's Ledges, so I could research locations for the stages, I got myself involved in a little adventure that made me want to remind everyone how risky those cliffs can be. As I was driving on Rte 305 on my way to the park, I saw a police car heading toward me, with red lights and siren on. I lost him over a hill, and soon came to Rte 282, where I turned north, to go to the park. I found the police car, just stopping by one of the trails leading into the park. As I swung into the parking lot, a fire truck pulled up. An ambulance arrived, soon after. So me being me, I followed the emergency personnel up the trail and into the park. I met a group of emergency workers attending to a young woman who was laying in the creek just below the first of the falls that my cache will take you near (but not too near!!). I introduced myself and identified myself as a career firefighter with 20 years of experience as an Emergency Medical First Responder. They first asked me to interview the young woman's friend, and get information from her about the victim. That's what I do at work when we go on a medical call, if I'm not needed to lend a hand in the care and treatment of the patients, I gather information for my run report. So I got the name, age, medical history, and so on, and learned that the two young women had been hiking and climbing, and at one point they were up on top of the falls. The victim wanted to look down, so she leaned against a tree and looked down. She slipped. She fell down to the creekbed below. The friend climbed down, realized the victim was seriously hurt, and phoned for help. By the time I was done talking to the friend, they had the victim in a Stokes basket - the rigid plastic basket you often see used for rescues on TV, hanging from a helicopter or being hoisted up a mountain, or something. We formed a group of 8 and carried her out to the ambulance. The trail is narrow in spots, so we had four carrying the Stokes basket, and four more in front of us. When we got to a narrow spot, we simply passed the Stokes forward to the others, and then at the next opportunity we got ahead of them, so at the next narrow spot they passed her back to us. We put the victim in the ambulance and they left to rendezvous with a Life Flight helicopter, which took the victim to a Cleveland hospital. I never heard how she did, but the next day one of the park rangers phoned me to thank me for getting involved and helping out.
So, needless to say, I had no trouble getting this cache approved! But it did serve as a reminder of what can happen out there. People get hurt, or worse, at Nelson's Ledges every year. Be careful out there!!
Ed_S
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