The tent campground was cleared out when we made our morning walkabout. Only the parties in Sites 2 and 3. We saw Spence a bit later and he reported that only Site 3 was occupied. There were plenty of day visitors though, even with imminent rain.
The section of Little River Road, where all the trees blew down yesterday, was still closed.
On the radio:
A fisheman (angler, if politically correct) fell and fractured his leg in the Little River. He must have used his cell phone to call 911 and they forwarded it to the park dispatch office.
It was noon before the litter team reached the Ramsey Cascade. Ranger Jeff was ahead of them. At 1:35 the team announced that the they were heading back down the trail. We did not hear them talking to much about the recovery, except for people checking in to help or verifying that people were carrying the necessary "technical recovery" equipment up the trail. It is a big job, requiring a lot of people to carry equipment in and more to carry the patient out. It saddented me each time I heard them on the radio. The crew got rained on as they were carrying the patient back down the trail. I think is was about 7:30 in the evening when we heard Ranger Jeff report that all participants were "clear" of Greenbrier. It must have been a long, hard day for them all.
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