TrailCast - Podcasting on foot

trailcast-22-Mar-07-2006.mp3 (14.3 MB)

In 2003, Amy Racina fell from a steep hillside during a solo hike in California’s Kings Canyon National Park.

“With no warning, a hillside gave way beneath me, and I plummeted 60 feet into a granite boulder. I was amazed to find myself alive when I hit the ground. My nose was smashed. A tooth had snapped off. Multiple scrapes and bruises covered my body. A bone stuck through the skin below my right knee, flesh shredded around it. My legs were useless. I could not move either one so much as an inch.”

25 miles from the nearest trail-head and not expected for another 6 days, Amy began crawling through and up the deep ravine in which she fell hoping to make herself visible should a hiker happen by in the seldom-hiked the Tehipite Valley backcountry. On the third day of dragging herself along the ravine a passing hiker and his companions heard her faint cries for help. 24 hours later she was located by rescue helicopters and airlifted to a hospital. She discovered later that had her rescue come just hours later, she would have been dead. Amy has recently published a book about her ordeal, Angels in the Wilderness.

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