When I was bored one Sunday at Ohio Wesleyan in the fall of '04, I met my parents at Hocking Hills.

 

I really forget which area the following took place in, but it was the first place we stopped.  Starting out on the trail takes you down a number of steps that descend through a tight gap between rocks, leading into one of those gorges bounded by pretty steep cliffs.  Arriving at the bottom, we encountered some activity surrounding someone who we can only guess had fallen and probably broken something.  We never could even see if this person was a man or woman, because the victim had been so bundled up by the time we got there that we could hardly see who was underneath.

 

Anyway, rescue people were already there.  Although this is not far from a parking lot and such, the only access is either down the stairs through the rocks, or across some trails from somewhere else.  The solution?  Haul the person right up the cliff!

 

I have a lot of digital pictures that didn't turn out because of motion blur and things, but here are scans of three slides that came out okay.

 

Near the bottom.  The victim is strapped in the yellow thing, of course, and the rescue guy is attached.

 

Back at the cliff face.

 

Almost at the top.  Yay!

 

No more pictures, but they made it to the top without incident.

I couldn't do that job.