Supposedly this is where it happened. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/oregon/triangle-lake-rock-slides-or/
Someone on Reddit who lives nearby said they have to call lifeflight out there constantly. The place probably shouldn't be open to the public.
The slide rock part is pretty tame and fun. There is/was? a pool of water above the slide rock part where people cliff dive/jump. That part is very dangerous. I used to dive & jump there. A friend I was with slipped off the narrow cliff everyone jumps from, tumbled down the rocks and hit the underside of his chin on a log sticking out of the water. I had just jumped and was swimming to shore when he fell. I was the first to reach him. He was face down in the water and out cold. Blood spurting from a giant gash in his neck under his chin. I lifted him out of the water and was able to dog paddle us back to shore. We through him in the back of his car and fly to the hospital. Blood everywhere in the car. That was actually the last time I ever went there. I thought they had dynamited a bunch of that area to get rid of the cliff diving part.
Sacbee is calling it a cliff diving accident, but it doesn't seem like they have more information than we do. https://www.sacbee.com/news/article263456093.html
Yeah, I remember this area well. I worked all year round while attending Oregon, so I was in Eugene every summer. I climbed up there one time to jump off.....and never again. Very slick. It was more dangerous climbing up than it was jumping/diving in. That was 40 years ago. Sounds like it has not changed.
It's really tragic when somebody so young and full of promise dies early Spenser Webb had a somewhat difficult childhood. Abandoned by parents, he was raised first by a grandfather, then, after the grandfather died, Spenser was raised by his older brother...who has to be devastated now. https://meaww.com/spencer-webb-late-oregon-ducks-tight-end-saw-elder-brother-cody-webb-as-his-dad
Sad.... https://people.com/sports/oregon-football-star-spencer-webb-dies-in-rock-sliding-accident/ Oregon Football Star Spencer Webb, 22, Dies in Rock Sliding Accident After Hitting His Head Oregon football player Spencer Webb has died at age 22 following a rock sliding accident. The standout tight end for the Ducks fell and hit his head near Triangle Lake, about 35 miles from the university's Eugene, Oregon, campus, on Wednesday afternoon. Oregon head coach Dan Lanning confirmed Webb's death on Twitter. "So full of life in every moment of the day. Your smile and energy will be missed Spencer. I love you!" Lanning wrote Wednesday night. Authorities responded to the scene at around 2:30 p.m. According to the Lane County Sheriff's Office, bystanders and paramedics were unable to revive Webb, who had slipped and fallen approximately 100 yards down a steep trail.
The outpouring of love from his teammates and those who knew him speaks to what a special person Spencer was. No matter how big and strong a person looks, everyone's health is really fragile balance not to be taken for granted. RIP SW STOMP
Impressive, but subtract out the past 35 years from the years that preceded them and you get 21-30. Those are the Ducks I remember growing up. Thank goodness for Phil Knight.
True. I remember watching the ducks in the early 90's. Autzen was a bare bones bowl, and the starting QB was Danny O'Neil. Kind of a Fresno State level program back then, with a mediocre offense. Montana and Dave Dickenson gave them all they wanted that day. Now it's big boy level. I wish somehow the Pac 12 could remain. F those Smogtowners. I'm excited about the trajectory of the Ducks under Coach Lanning. The Ducks Football Program doesn't need to play second fiddle to anyone, and sure as hell doesn't need to beg for the Big 10 to somehow let them in. FUCK the Big 10. Long live the new Pac 10, or 12, or 20.
