Warren Hornaday

I don't know of how many of us here know Warren Hornaday. @driffter33 ... He Facebooked a message last night at around 10:00pm stating he was looking for someone to come get him. That he "thought" he was on the SOT hiking near Wrightwood, that he was disoriented, and that his truck was at some canyon I can not remember.

I Facebooked back that I got on Facebook well after an hour that he sent it, that I was 2 1/2 hours away, but will get in the vehicle to go find him, but did not know where to start. He never responded.

Does anyone have any updates?
Yes, I'm a bit concerned!

Mikie

 

He posted a photo of quadruple decker burger "Post 24 mile, 7000+ft hike podium burger"

I think he's good to go.

 

Oh man! Thank you so much for his. I got a rough night of sleep worrying about him.
Now I'm gonna "kill him" Ha hah!

THANK YOU!

 

He posted on his Strava that it was a long cold trek and he made it home at 1:30am.

 

Scary stuff...

 

We definitely need a RR! STAT!!

 

Damn thats scary. The tension between reading the first two post was nearly too much to bear for me.

 

I survived thank you all for your concern. If I can find some one to help me and the time to edit my videos and pictures from that day it should be entertaining. I watched them the other day and was laughing thinking what an idiot.

 

Not sure if this will work but here is the last video of the hike.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/44bJsxC1y158X6g28

 

Never saw this thread...

Hah, that looks grim, Warren. Spend enough time out on the trails and something like this is likely to happen. Better than staying home.

But, please get yourself a PLB if you haven't. (Ten bucks says @Mikie still hasn't gotten one after his brush with fate.) Just buy, register and toss it in a pack. You'll never know it's there – until you need it. You could save someone's life besides your own with it, too.

 

@Mikie just curious, does having my very own lost in the woods could have died thread move me up to (mtb celebrity) status?

 

Pic of Warren and me getting ready to descend Joplin. Glad to hear he's ok!

 

Dang, dude... the title of this thread had me freaking out!

Waiting for the aftermath report

 

Yes.
But it's like a Vincent Van Gogh painting. It's only worth something after you are dead.

 

It does if you self-rescued

 

We think alike. I’m headed to counseling

 

Soooooo. I got the thread, but since I made it out the status will have to wait!?

 

Summary and details peer review must occur first per normal procedure.

 

Warren h! Glad u r all okay!

 

So many of my friends have gotten zeriously injured .. 2 broken necks.. one cracked orbital.. two helicopter rides.. collar bones x 2... shoulders dislocations.....etc etc
Arg.. this sport is dangerous enough...

 

My son was telling me about a smart helmet, it supposedly senses a hard impact and sends the info to your phone, which then sends it to certain contacts if you don’t/can’t turn off the emergency mode! Might be something to look into. I know getting lost is a whole other enchilada, but just throwing it out there

 

Peer review score to date: zero

Bonus points for:
Near death experience
Excessive hubris
Technology breakdown
Mechanical breakdown
Mental breakdown
Physical injury
Physical injury involving torn lycra
Physical injury involving torn thong
Ran out of water
Didn't bring water
What's water?
Wearing IMTB jersey when it happened
Used IMTB jersey to wave for help
Used IMTB jersey to staunch the free flow of blood
Used IMTB jersey to cliff-dive to rescue

 

I'm afraid I failed on the bonus point's. I should have ran out of water. But I held off on drinking what little I had incase I should become inmobil. 32 oz for 24 miles in over 13 hrs hiking leaves one partched. No gushing blood, no mental breakdown, no mechanical breakdown, as for technology. Waterproof shoes are a bad idea when you spend much of the day wading upstream then later find your, still holding water waterproof shoes are now carrying you across the frozen tundra and you are laking long pants. ❄⛄ No torn lycra, no torn thong thankfully. No IMTB Jersey involved. Near death? I don't know it depends on how close the mountain lions were, I could have easily twisted an ankle, broke a leg, slipped and fell. To become injured and unable to continue could have easily left me as a pile of bones for a future traveler to stumble upon.
It was a day filled with bad decisions on my part that ended much better than it could have. Don't do what I did. Plan, prepare, and notify!

 

If this link works it should provide you with a bit of entertainment and insight into my day in the mountains. Enjoy.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ETMdo3tqJBzAqMPKA

 

Check out the Specialized Ambush with Angi-it is a Bluetooth-linked accelerometer attached to the helmet that senses a crash and will alert help if not de-activated in a certain period of time.
Angi is also available separately for use with other helmets too.

 

It looks like you kept your shite together, @driffter33. And you won't get an entry in this year's Accidents in North American Mountaineering, so I'll vote for giving you the cred.

Tell me which beacon or tracking unit is looking good to you...

 

I guess I would have to look into tracking beacons before I can answer that.

 

You shaved your mustache! Good thing I wasn't sent out to retrieve a body... I wouldn't have recognized you, and would have let you lie where I found you!

 

Now this just has to mean something on the imtb status hierarchy!