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He Survived the Flash Flood - Why He Left the Rope Behind
He Survived the Flash Flood - Why He Left the Rope Behind
Fear tightens around the inevitability of water in a slot canyon: two inches of rain in forty minutes on a distant rim sent a wall of brown water up to a shelf where Frank Farrell sat eight feet above a trapped pool, marking the changing level with deliberate scratches on a sandstone slab. Why did a trained geotechnical technician clutch a scratched piece of rock and not the thirty feet of rope he had brought - and what did those columns of tally marks mean?
In this episode, we tell what happened from the morning Troy Jones found Frank…
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