The curious incident of the elk on the climbing wall - Colorado Search & Rescue Association

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The curious incident of the elk on the climbing wall - Colorado Search & Rescue Association

By Rebecca Young, Lake County Search and Rescue “I don’t know if we’re climbing today; there’s a bull elk on the walk off.” I thought Chris was joking as I sipped coffee. My husband and I had ventured down to Lake City Ice Climbs along with a friend, also named Chris, for a weekend of climbing. We gathered in the parking lot and stared dumbly across frozen Henson Creek to where the elk stood squarely on the steepest part of the climber’s trail t…