Episode 164 - Welcome Doug Teschner, Discussion of 1983 Mt. Washington Rescue, Loon Echo Land Trust

Sounds Like A Search And Rescue Podcast

https://slasrpodcast.com/

[e-mail]

This week we have a follow up on Episode 154 where we covered a March 1983 fatality on Mount Washington where 23 year old Ken Hokenson lost his life and his hiking partner, Ali Kashkooli was rescued. At the time we covered the story we used the details provided in the Summer 1984 Appalachia Journal. The writer of that article and the rescuer who first found Ken and later helped rescue Ali is Doug Teschner. Doug was told about our segment and was kind enough to do a follow up interview with us so definitely stick around for this segment because Doug has a lot of interesting background on that event and we really get into what the White Mountains were like back then. Later in the show our friends Scott and Addie sit down to talk about the Loon Echo Land Trust which is a non-profit organization that conserves, protects, and maintains many of the trails and land in the Lakes Region of Maine. Scott and Addie are overseeing a trail race series that helps support the trust so we will talk about those races, learn about some of the Loon Echo hiking areas and talk about trail running in the Whites. All this plus Falling Waters reroute, powered hiking pants, and recent hikes on Quincy Bogs, and Middle Mountain.

This weeks Higher Summit Forecast

About Doug Teschner

Website

No Limits but the Sky

The Last Gift

About Scott and Addie / Loon Echo Land Trust

Loon Echo Land Trust

LELT Instagram

Pleasant Mountain Race Instagram

Sign up for Pleasant Mountain Race

Sign up for Bald Pate 10k

Use slasr24 code for a $5 discount when signing up for Pleasant Mountain Race

Topics

• Aurora is a work in progress

• Cog Railway

• Legionnaires Disease

• Lincoln Woods bear is habituated to humans

• No show next week - short summer break

• Falling Waters Trail is being re-routed

• Lawsuit related South Baldface Fatality has been dismissed

• Article about younger people needing rescues in the UK

• NH Big Trees

• Gear Review

• FKT to hike the Northeast 115

• Welcome Doug Teschner - recap of 1983 Fatality and Rescue on Mount Washington (42:00)

• Welcome Scott and Addie from the Loon Echo Land Trust

• Stomp reviews Lost Person Strategy

• Recent Search and Rescue

Show Notes

• Apple Podcast link for 5 star reviews

• SLASR Merchandise

• SLASR LinkTree

• LELT Race Series

• Bald Pate 10k

• Pleasant Mountain Race

• IG ‘deletethecog' vs. The Cog

• From Huck - Bears following campers/hikers for food.

• Falling Waters reroute update

• Gen Z under the spotlight

• NH BIG TREES - cool site

• Map link

• New Exoskeleton from Arc’teryx

• 20 days to hike the NE 115 - congrats

• Injured hiker Moat Mtn.

• Hiker carried out on Falling Waters trail

• Hiker rescued near Eisenhower summit

• Hiker recovery, Mt. Kinsman Trail

• Hiker rescued, Carter Notch

• Hiker rescued on Mt. Monadnock

Sponsors, Friends and Partners

• 24th Annual Seek the Peak

• Fieldstone Kombucha

• CS Instant Coffee

• 2024 Longest Day - 48 Peaks

• Mount Washington Higher Summits Forecast

• Hiking Buddies

• Vaucluse - Sweat less. Explore more. – Vaucluse Gear

• White Mountains Endurance Coaching