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Left at the Mark: Cyclist Survives Six Days Below Farrow Pass
Left at the Mark: Cyclist Survives Six Days Below Farrow Pass
Danger and endurance collide: a competitive cyclist with a cracked helmet and a fractured hip spent six days alone in the Colorado backcountry after crashing below a summit that had been officially closed; how did she survive with two gel packets, a mylar blanket, and a red-bearded instructor’s rule? What choice did she make at an easement marker that left a racing bike propped against a yard and a three-page note in a plastic bag?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from a routine grid walk that found an abandoned bike…
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