{"id":540,"date":"2008-10-31T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/10\/31\/did-you-hear-the-one-about-a-goat-in-a-landslide\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:42:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:42:48","slug":"did-you-hear-the-one-about-a-goat-in-a-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/10\/31\/did-you-hear-the-one-about-a-goat-in-a-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you hear the one about a goat in a landslide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of light relief over at the Highway 97 site in Canada, which continues to slip.  Arthon have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthon.com\/projects\/summerland\/blasting_rock_HoudiniOct29.html\">pictorial report<\/a> on their website of the rescue of a mountain goat that had fallen down the tension crack and become wedged 10 m below the surface (all images from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthon.com\/projects\/summerland\/blasting_rock_HoudiniOct29.html\">Arthon website<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthon.com\/projects\/summerland\/images\/goatrescue\/DSC_0233.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 269px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arthon.com\/projects\/summerland\/images\/goatrescue\/DSC_0233.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the goat (now named Houdini) was spotted and a rescue was put in place.  Enter the gallant abseilers (you wouldn&#8217;t mess with these guys on a dark night):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthon.com\/projects\/summerland\/images\/goatrescue\/DSC_0250.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 269px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arthon.com\/projects\/summerland\/images\/goatrescue\/DSC_0250.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthon.com\/projects\/summerland\/images\/goatrescue\/DSC_0249.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 269px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arthon.com\/projects\/summerland\/images\/goatrescue\/DSC_0249.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>They abseiled down and tranquilised the goat, who was then hauled back to safety:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthon.com\/projects\/summerland\/images\/goatrescue\/DSC_0338.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 269px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arthon.com\/projects\/summerland\/images\/goatrescue\/DSC_0338.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Meanwhile the slope is still moving 10-15 mm per day and as a result the road is still closed.  A water taxi has starts on Saturday morning to allow people to get around the blockage.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Hat tip &#8211; Andrew Giles again.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of light relief over at the Highway 97 site in Canada, which continues to slip. Arthon have a pictorial report on their website of the rescue of a mountain goat that had fallen down the tension crack and become wedged 10 m below the surface (all images from the Arthon website): Fortunately, the goat (now named Houdini) was spotted and a rescue was put in place. 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