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Starved Rock

WhiteDevil

WhiteDevil

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Heres I comes!!!!!


first "road trip" with the GP, first and only honeymoon, booze,tents, a bar on the campgrounds and my bow, its going to be a FUN weekend.

Ill be around for a few hours yet but come high noon I am fuggin gone.

anyone around that way, ill be at papa murphs, only GP w/ a white blazer there, bright orange tent, hillbilly music blaring, booze flowing.
 


Went to starved rock

some dude made himself into a pancake on the canyon floor

81-foot fall kills man at Starved Rock State Park
Milos Hrsto of Lake Forest fell when a branch gave way as he looked over a canyon rim

By Steve Schmadeke | Chicago Tribune reporter
12:19 AM CDT, September 3, 2008

A Lake Forest man died after a tree branch he was leaning against at Starved Rock State Park broke and he fell 81 feet into a canyon Sunday morning, Illinois Conservation Police said.

Milos Hrsto, 21, was hiking with relatives on Pontiac Canyon's upper trail when he stepped 6 to 8 feet off the trail to look over the rim, police said Tuesday. A friend said Hrsto was hiking with his older sister Jasmina, his brother-in-law and his brother-in-law's sister.

Hrsto, whom friends recalled as always laughing and making others laugh, graduated from Lake Forest High School a year early and had received a psychology degree at DePaul University this summer, friends said.

Neel Bhalala, 21, who has known Hrsto since 5th grade and ate dinner with him Friday, said they were making plans to take a trip to Istanbul over winter break. Hrsto, who was considering going to graduate school, loved music and being outdoors—playing beach volleyball or tossing a Frisbee, Bhalala said.

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"He was a big part of a lot of people's lives," Bhalala said.

Meagan Hermanowicz, 21, a senior at DePaul, said she's known Hrsto since they were in 4th grade in Lake Forest. She said he was outgoing and smart—someone not afraid to challenge teachers and other students in class.

"Every single memory I have of him is us laughing—until the point where my face hurt," said Alex Levine, a Loyola University student. "He was always that kind of person."

Hrsto was taken to Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru on Sunday, where he was pronounced dead. Results from an autopsy Monday were not immediately available.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is investigating his death.
 
Bio248 said:
...where are you going?
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starved rock, its in/near UTICA il a bunch of glacial formed canyons and landscape, the Illinois river runs right thru it.

saw MAYBE 2/3rds of the park, hiked over 40 miles, got #8 shot rained down on us very early monday morning, forgot hunting season started on the 1st. wife crapped her pants when I took the GP thru a cornfield chasing down 2 hunters who knew they ****ed up and shot too close to campers. I keep forgetting its not my 4x4.
 
WhiteDevil said:
Went to starved rock

some dude made himself into a pancake on the canyon floor

81-foot fall kills man at Starved Rock State Park
Milos Hrsto of Lake Forest fell when a branch gave way as he looked over a canyon rim

By Steve Schmadeke | Chicago Tribune reporter
12:19 AM CDT, September 3, 2008

A Lake Forest man died after a tree branch he was leaning against at Starved Rock State Park broke and he fell 81 feet into a canyon Sunday morning, Illinois Conservation Police said.

Milos Hrsto, 21, was hiking with relatives on Pontiac Canyon's upper trail when he stepped 6 to 8 feet off the trail to look over the rim, police said Tuesday. A friend said Hrsto was hiking with his older sister Jasmina, his brother-in-law and his brother-in-law's sister.

Hrsto, whom friends recalled as always laughing and making others laugh, graduated from Lake Forest High School a year early and had received a psychology degree at DePaul University this summer, friends said.

Neel Bhalala, 21, who has known Hrsto since 5th grade and ate dinner with him Friday, said they were making plans to take a trip to Istanbul over winter break. Hrsto, who was considering going to graduate school, loved music and being outdoors—playing beach volleyball or tossing a Frisbee, Bhalala said.

Related links

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Starved Rock State Park map
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Starved Rock, Illinois

"He was a big part of a lot of people's lives," Bhalala said.

Meagan Hermanowicz, 21, a senior at DePaul, said she's known Hrsto since they were in 4th grade in Lake Forest. She said he was outgoing and smart—someone not afraid to challenge teachers and other students in class.

"Every single memory I have of him is us laughing—until the point where my face hurt," said Alex Levine, a Loyola University student. "He was always that kind of person."

Hrsto was taken to Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru on Sunday, where he was pronounced dead. Results from an autopsy Monday were not immediately available.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is investigating his death.
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damnnnnnnnnn thats nuts....poor guy
 


yes and no, there are signs saying" if you leave the path/trail you can be killed" He didnt slip, he didnt fall over anything, he leaned out over the edge leaning on a tree branch. **** happens.

Sad part was, If I recall right he was at the party at the campground the night before this, his face looks very familiar like recent familiar.

now they are pushing for railings to be put up on every trail there, to me its a waste of money and time, people will still be retarded and climb over the **** like we witnessed em doing at other canyons over the weekend.

I plan on doing the same thing he did however I will be harnessed off to a very strong anchor, the pics will be great if I can pull it off without making myself into a pancake.
 
Damn that sucks to hear about the guy that fell. On a related note though, there is a place out at Starved Rock that you can go cliff diving, although you technically aren't supposed to:th_winking:, it's pretty sweet. There is even a rope ladder that you have to use to kinda repel up a small waterfall in order to get back up, it's awesome.
 
its closed down completely. erosion took out the only way into it. My wife used to dive there as a kid. They got steel bars up to block off the entrance to it. We tried.
 
WhiteDevil said:
its closed down completely. erosion took out the only way into it. My wife used to dive there as a kid. They got steel bars up to block off the entrance to it. We tried.
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Hmm well I know you can still get to it cause I was just there like 3 weeks ago, given you did have to climb up these stone stairs and hop over a gate thing, but it's still accessible just not legally lol.
 
Smokin2000gtp said:
Hmm well I know you can still get to it cause I was just there like 3 weeks ago, given you did have to climb up these stone stairs and hop over a gate thing, but it's still accessible just not legally lol.
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Yeah we tried, but If DNR catches me I got alot more to lose then the average person due to my work. DNR trouble = bad for business.

I still gotta get my pics up, I saved em but have been working every day sicne I got back, ill make a post wednesday with a link and a few pics( took well over 300 pics)

Got some new GP pics too.


We got up o the fence bars but right behind that turn the trail was washed out.
 


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