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Originally Posted by craigster59
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Actually Randy was a friend of mine. I never read the book. The last time I talked to him was on a direct radio channel from Mt. Whitney summit in 1976, when I was the Mt.Whitney ranger and he was at a station about fifteen miles north of Crabtree station. He had an old Ford pickup and I helped him replace the transmission in it one summer before we went into the back country. He apparently fell from a rock, hit his head, and submerged his face in a stream and died. I talked to one of the guys (also a friend of his) who helped do the body recovery a couple/few years later. It would have been hard if I had had to participate in that. I had to take part in a few body recoveries, but never somebody who was a friend. That guy in the picture obviously isn't him.