Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bob was something of a daredevil. During the junior patrol trip to Aspen in 1974, he was standing with friends on the last slope at the Snowmass-at-Aspen area, which runs between two lodges. He turned to Jim and handed him his parka. "Watch this," he said, and took off down the slope. He made a few quick turns, then headed for a bump, took a huge jump, and landed in the middle of a lodge swimming pool, which was unoccupied. He swam around the pool collecting his equipment, which came off when he hit the water, climbed...
EARLY IN FEBRUARY 1976, Bob wrote a letter to Jim, and mailed it along with the picture in the box above, to "Sir James K. Bredar IX, Mathews Hall #30." In part the letter read...
That was the last letter Bob sent to Jim. Jim flew to Denver March 24, 1976, for spring break, planning to meet Bob in a few days and go climbing and backpacking in the Grand Canyon. But the next evening, Mary Lyn called Jim and told him Bob had had an accident on the 24th while flying his hang glider off Point Fermin, California...
...Bob was soaring above the summit, trying to land on the slope that leads to the precipice, when the wind stopped. Caught in a rare, freakish downdraft, the kite plummeted. When he saw he would be unable to land he shifted his weight and thrust at the control bar, trying to turn away from the cliff, head out over the ocean, gain some altitude and try again. He didn't have time. Striking the cliff about 15 feet below the summit, he slid 25 feet down the stone face to a ledge. Then the inland wind resumed and pinned...
...Meanwhile, another guy on the cliff saw the whole thing happen," Jim says. "He rigged up a rope real quick and rappelled down to him, got to him about three or four minutes after it happened. Bob wasn't breathing, so he started artificial respiration. They called a rescue team, cut him out of the kite, dropped the rescue equipment to the ledge and lifted him up. His heart kept going, but he never breathed by himself after that. He was there in California for about three weeks, and then his parents had him flown to Colorado General...