Pete Absolon Killed in Accident

It now appears the rock was thrown, making his death both tragic and completely preventable. How sad.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2003837589_webclimberdeath15.html

While visiting my old Boy Scout Council's Camp Lodge in the Sierra I saw a report of this accident posted entitled "Why We Don't Throw Rocks".

I'm sure it would be small comfort to Molly and Avery, but this tragedy is being used by the Boy Scouts to help prevent such events from occuring again.

At the age of seven or eight, me and my brother were throwing stones from the edge of a moraine into it when we noticed some climbers coming up towards us. I never thrown another stone after that except for the occasional stone skipping competition.
Franco

Here's a brief article in the Charleston Gazette following up on these events. Not much information but some might be interested:

http://sundaygazettemail.com/News/200803010431

There's also an article in Outside magazine written about the accident:

http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/200801/pete-absolon-1.html