He Survived the Flash Flood - Why He Left the Rope Behind
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He Survived the Flash Flood - Why He Left the Rope Behind
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Fear tightens around the inevitability of water in a slot canyon: two inches of rain in forty minutes on a distant rim sent a wall of brown water up to a shelf where Frank Farrell sat eight feet above a trapped pool, marking the changing level with deliberate scratches on a sandstone slab. Why did a trained geotechnical technician clutch a scratched piece of rock and not the thirty feet of rope he had brought - and what did those columns of tally marks mean?
In this episode, we tell what happened from the morning Troy Jones found Frank to the moment the flood rose and then held, and we trace Frank’s preparations, his equipment list, and the crucial decisions he made as the water stalled beneath him - leaving the question of survival tied to the meaning of those scratches.
Person: Frank Farrell
Age: 29
Occupation: Geotechnical technician
Entry date: Saturday, October 19
Last voicemail: Thursday, October 17 at 5:47 AM
- Frank had canyoneered for four years and entered fourteen slot canyons in that time.
- He carried thirty feet of six-millimeter cord, a rappelling harness, two carabiners, a 32-ounce water bottle (three-quarters full), two energy bars, a headlamp, a first-aid kit, and a pocketknife.
- He made twelve vertical scratch columns on a sandstone slab, grouping marks in fives, and scratched one vertical mark every fifteen minutes.
- The flood was caused by two inches of rain in forty minutes on the Mogollon Rim feeding Archer Creek into Tin Horn canyon.
- Troy Jones found Frank at 7:20 AM sitting against a chain-link gate with boots on the wrong feet and a uniform deep purple face.
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