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#26621 - 08/07/12 11:35 AM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: searchingForDas]
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Registered: 02/03/11
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Loc: Valley Ford CA!!!!
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I just called this number and was astonished to be told that the family had NOT reported this to Inyo Sherrif or anyone else. I did that and urged the family to call the number I gave them for ICSO, which is posted at the site.
Voicemail only at that number however.
If someone knows a faster way to get the word to SAR, please get on it.
The family needs help
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#26622 - 08/07/12 11:38 AM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: saltydog]
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Registered: 08/07/12
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Loc: CA
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Thank you so much for the call. We're indeed acting on it. We're very unfamiliar with how to handle this type of situation, so any additional advice is welcome.
Again, thank you for your help.
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#26627 - 08/07/12 12:13 PM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: searchingForDas]
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Registered: 02/03/11
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Loc: Valley Ford CA!!!!
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I just spoke with Inyo Sherriff's office, and was assured that they are working it. My very best wishes to the Shyam Das family for a good outcome.
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#26636 - 08/07/12 02:38 PM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: saltydog]
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Registered: 03/03/10
Posts: 14
Loc: Orange County, CA
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#26637 - 08/07/12 02:40 PM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: Kandy]
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Registered: 08/07/12
Posts: 3
Loc: CA
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Shyam Das has been found. He's alive and breathing but has sustained a head injury and is being taken the local hospital immediately.
Thank you all so much for your help and warmth, our best wishes to you all and please hope for a good recovery. Thank you.
The Das Family
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#26639 - 08/07/12 02:46 PM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: searchingForDas]
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Registered: 02/03/11
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Loc: Valley Ford CA!!!!
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Sharing the family's joy in the rescue, and prayers for a full recovery.
Edited by saltydog (08/07/12 03:41 PM)
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#26689 - 08/08/12 10:53 AM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: Steve C]
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Registered: 09/22/09
Posts: 7644
Loc: Fresno, CA
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Saltydog found more details at YubaNet.comThe details are very interesting... He was located "below Mirror Lake" The last known interaction anyone had with Das was around sunset in the Trail Camp area on Sunday evening when an unrelated hiking group noticed Das wandering; Das was offered food and water before he departed.
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#26749 - 08/09/12 03:08 PM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: Steve C]
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Registered: 10/07/09
Posts: 2246
Loc: Humbug Reach (Pop. 3)
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Some more details on Shyam Das, but also a report on three other rescues. These blokes do this unpaid, on their own time, and we only really hear about it when the consequences are dire. Magnificent! Also, we have read in other places that the rescue organizations are not always thanked by the families involved. This was an exception.
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#26761 - 08/09/12 05:37 PM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: wagga]
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Registered: 02/03/11
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Loc: Valley Ford CA!!!!
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Some more details on Shyam Das, but also a report on three other rescues. These blokes do this unpaid, on their own time, and we only really hear about it when the consequences are dire. Magnificent! Also, we have read in other places that the rescue organizations are not always thanked by the families involved. This was an exception. Wagga is right on in this observation. I have been backchannel with this family, and they have been incredibly generous in their appreciation of the least effort in support. As with all such situations, there will be many insights to be gained, but the value of community will not be the least of these. Many people may approach these situations with no sense of accountability, but the Das family is somehow beyond exceptional in their appreciation, in every sense ( look it up!). This has my attention and I hope it has yours.
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#26764 - 08/09/12 05:44 PM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: Bulldog34]
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Registered: 09/22/09
Posts: 1253
Loc: Corner of Jack Benny and Roche...
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Bulldog,
The first three times down this trail I walked off the trail in this area. Since then, every time I go down it I really pay attention to where I go.
It is not unusual to see people wandering around here in search of a trail.
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#26771 - 08/09/12 06:38 PM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: saltydog]
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Registered: 10/07/09
Posts: 2246
Loc: Humbug Reach (Pop. 3)
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SaltyDog:
"I just called this number and was astonished to be told that the family had NOT reported this to Inyo Sherrif or anyone else. I did that and urged the family to call the number I gave them for ICSO, which is posted at the site."
If you had not contacted the family there may have been a significantly worse outcome.
But that is what this forum is all about.
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#26779 - 08/09/12 11:45 PM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: wbtravis]
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Registered: 09/22/09
Posts: 1261
Loc: Northern California
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Anybody have any pictures showing the right & wrong way through this area? (love the red markers that everyone uses) I only have a very vague recollection about this part of the trail.
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#26781 - 08/10/12 01:41 AM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: wagga]
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Registered: 02/03/11
Posts: 1561
Loc: Valley Ford CA!!!!
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SaltyDog:
"I just called this number and was astonished to be told that the family had NOT reported this to Inyo Sherrif or anyone else. I did that and urged the family to call the number I gave them for ICSO, which is posted at the site."
If you had not contacted the family there may have been a significantly worse outcome.
But that is what this forum is all about. I don't want to take too much credit here: the hiker's friends on the Inyo side had initiated SAR, but the family were not completely informed, apparently. I was just makin' sure.
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#26784 - 08/10/12 09:54 AM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: Bulldog34]
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Registered: 09/22/09
Posts: 1253
Loc: Corner of Jack Benny and Roche...
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Bee,
I believe ascending through is not an issue because you are moving at a slower pace, you are performing at top level and, as a day hiker, you are with the bunch. During the descent, you are traveling at a much faster pace, you are on cruise control, tired and the bunch that you had going up is dispersed going down...at least that is how I have found it to be. I've been the only going through there a few times.
A good way to remedy this, beyond paying particular attention, is to stop at Trailside Meadow for an extended break. Take your shoes off, soak your feet, dunk your head and have something eat. This way you go through this section rip roaring and raring to go.
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#31602 - 05/30/13 03:52 PM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: searchingForDas]
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Registered: 02/03/11
Posts: 1561
Loc: Valley Ford CA!!!!
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Update: Remember this from last summer? Its even more remarkable. Turns out this incident played out over two days before Das fell off the trail. The party left the Portal on Saturday, not Sunday as originally reported Here , Das dropped out and descended to the portal that night and set out again the next morning, alone. Reading the two stories together, he spent 7 hours on the trail from Portal to Trail Camp where he met up with his party on their descent, but would not go down with them. He then spent 3 hours getting to about 12,650 ft, then another hour descending back to TC at about 6. Some time later, he fell off the trail above Mirror Lake and lay unconscious until he was found Tuesday. As of March this year, he was still recovering from coma, head trauma and the two days exposure before he was found. Amazing he survived. New Story here
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#54268 - 09/17/18 01:33 PM
Re: Missing Hiker for 36+ Hours - Shyam Das - Details Inside
[Re: saltydog]
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Registered: 08/09/11
Posts: 500
Loc: Saugus, CA
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As of March this year, he was still recovering from coma, head trauma and the two days exposure before he was found. Amazing he survived. New Story here Going back and refreshing on SAR's in recent years. This one is rather remarkable! All of the news articles are gone, did Mr Das awaken from his coma, did he ever recover?
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