Kilimanjaro Report post Posted August 15, 2005 This old hand is as tough as nails!! I wouldn't think that someone half his age would make it through something like that... http://www.borderlandnews.com/apps/pbcs.dl.../508120351/1001 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grizzly Report post Posted August 15, 2005 I dont know if I admire that guy more for surviving the fall and the crawl or surviving 12 KIDS! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bullwidgeon Report post Posted August 15, 2005 My grandfather was buddies with Joe Fanning. A Catalina tough cowboy if there ever was one. He said back in the old days Joe was riding up the Cargadero trail looking for some cows in the days of the old Rail N ranch and the old powerline running up to Mount Lemmon had blown down in a storm, somehow the live line hit his horse and immediately fried it and knocked Joe out and scorched him pretty bad. Joe awoke a few hours later covered in snow, looked around and saw his fried and dead horse. He couldn't feel his arms and his hands got burned real bad in the accident somehow. He had to walk/crawl several miles back down that rough trail to get to his truck and then try to make his hands work enough to get the truck started and back on the route to Catalina. I do not know how many of you have been way up that trail but it aint smooth and probably alot less smooth after being fried and having your horse zapped out from underneath you. Stories like that and the one in that article make me realize what a pansy I really am after complaining about a tough pack out somewhere. Bret M. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CouesWhitetail Report post Posted August 15, 2005 Bret, I think I know that powerline trail you are talking about. That is some very rough country indeed. I just finished reading a book called "Touching the Void" by Joe Simpson. He's a mountain climber who had a series of tragic accidents while coming down a mountain. He was left for dead by his partner (who thought it was impossible for someone to survive the fall into that crevasse). But he survived and crawled all the way back to camp. He heard voices too, just like the old cowboy and he ended up losing 40% of his body weight in just a few days. This story was made into a movie, maybe some of you saw it. I enjoy reading those adventure books. There are some by Jon Krakuer that are awesome too. Amanda Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BowhuntCoues Report post Posted August 16, 2005 I'm with Grizzly, Thats one TUFF MAN. I bet he didn't know it was the water that caused all of those incidents. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
az4life Report post Posted August 16, 2005 Wow, that is a tough old guy. My hat is off to him! His story and the others mentioned are real stories of survival that should all be made into movies. They would beat the heck out of the junk hollywood does now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
