A 42-year-old man died Monday on Boulder’s Second Flatiron. The man appeared to have fallen about 100 feet as he was running and scrambling said Rocky Mountain Rescue. The Boulder County Sheriff said friends went looking for him after he did not return home after sunset and found the body.
It was likely the 16th fatality for Boulder-based Rocky Mountain Rescue this year said public information officer and team leader Drew Hildner who wished to share condolences with the family. Fatalities, said Hildner, have been about 15% of this year’s missions, while in recent years they have been 4% or 5%.
The sheriff’s office has been doing more initial work on many calls and clearing some before Rocky Mountain Rescue gets called, so there has been a reduction in calls easily handled.
“The calls we do get are actual calls,” said Hildner. “And oftentimes injuries are more severe or in more technical terrain. And that’s been a trend we’ve seen the last two or three years.”