Twitter: RIP Gavin Escobar

[tyke1doe]

With all due respect to him….if his career was dependent on another man? He was never going to hit his ceiling.

And that’s ok because it looks like he went on to do something even more powerful. Fight fires for a living and save lives.

Especially in California.

 

[tyke1doe]

Damn this sucks, RIP young man.

Who was the quarterback, No. 18?

 

[Jarv]

RIP Gavin!

 

[CowboyStar88]

Gavin was a friend of a friend. RIP Gavin, you will be missed by many.

 

[KJJ]

I mentioned his name yesterday in a post before the news broke….RIP.

 

[Toro9]

Damn... That sucks. But at least he died from a hobby.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Especially in California.

Yeah I didn’t even think about. Much worse out there for that.

 

[CT Dal Fan]

RIP Gavin Escobar. My heart goes out to his family and friends.

 

[Bunston10]

RIP young man. Thoughts are with your family.

 

[mattjames2010]

Remember thinking he should have gotten a little more playing time than he did when it was apparent Witten was slowing down. Sad to hear. RIP.

 

[TwentyOne]

This is horrible. So sad.

RIP Gavin.

 

[Hoofbite]

Especially in California.

I work with a guy who lost everything in the Paradise fire. Literally, everything. We discussed it a couple years ago but he was still having people go over and clear out his lot.

Fires out west are nothing to be played with. A friend from high school is a forest fire fighter and we lived together one summer in the mid 2000's. That dude would basically go 2-weeks on and then get a few days off. They'd set up camps at rodeo arenas and basically just be entirely isolated during the whole time while working 12-14 hour shifts. He'd come back each time looking like a different person. He loved it and wanted to even advance to being one of the guys that is dropped in by helicopter, but I couldn't imagine spending a summer like that. He did it so he could pay for his living expenses for most of the rest of the year and just snowboard all winter.

 

[Motorola]

I've always thought rock climbers are crazy, RIP

No "crazier" than:
• Niagra Falls daredevils
• The Flying Wallendas -- along with the dozens other famous funambulism performers
• Snake charmers
• Evel Knievel
• English Channel swimmers
• Houdini
• Fire breathers

 

[Hoofbite]

No "crazier" than:
• Niagra Falls daredevils
• The Flying Wallendas -- along with the dozens other famous funambulism performers
• Snake charmers
• Evel Knievel
• English Channel swimmers
• Houdini
• Fire breathers

YouTube "Free Solo Honnold" and tell me anything on that list compares.

 

[shabazz]

Every so often things happen to let You know what's REAL.
Gavin RIP

just like Pat Tillman in that they when on to contribute to something greater.

 

[tyke1doe]

Yeah I didn’t even think about. Much worse out there for that.

Seems like they've been fighting wildfires for years.

 

[tyke1doe]

No "crazier" than:
• Niagra Falls daredevils
• The Flying Wallendas -- along with the dozens other famous funambulism performers
• Snake charmers
• Evel Knievel
• English Channel swimmers
• Houdini
• Fire breathers

Evel Knievel was da MAN back in the day.

 

[SuspectCorner]

That damn gravity!

 

[Surfguy]

Were they using ropes or free solo? Should have been more careful I guess. Sad.

 

[Motorola]

YouTube "Free Solo Honnold" and tell me anything on that list compares.

It's all relative - the activities/stunts done - plus the circumstances under which each was done.
Hoofbite - my post to Elgatogrande was more about humans have done outrageous things that pose a great danger to their lives -- throughout the annals of time.
Was not aware of Alex Honnold and his free solo technique. Obviously, he has the makeup physically and mental mentally to train thoroughly to perform that elite level of rock climbing.
But I listed a number of feats and stunts in the past that illustrate many, many poeple did that most of us word consider "just as crazy" as rock climbing.
At least 5,000 people have went over Niagra Falls since 1850 - by accident, intentionally= suicide, or as a stunt. Look up the first documented person to go over Nigagra Falls - and reply about that feat.