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HIS ACT TOGETHER ACCORDING TO WILLIAMS, RUBY HAD SLIPPED ON A WET ROCK AND
BROKEN HIS LEG WHILE OUT HIKING IN THE BUCK CREEK PASS AREA OF THE HIGH
CASCADES IN WESTERN WASHINGTON, 600 MILES AWAY FROM WILLIAMS.  RUSS REALLY
HAD HIS ACT TOGETHER, WILLIAMS SAID.  HE HAD HIS TENT SET UP BEFORE HE EVEN
CALLED FOR HELP.  IT WAS RAINING WHEN HE FELL, SO HE CLIMBED INTO HIS TENT
AND GOT INTO SOME WARM CLOTHES AND HAD A SNACK OF SUNFLOWER SEEDS AND DRIED
APRICOTS.  RUBY TOLD THE ARRL THAT AFTER HE FELL, A GROUP OF HIKERS, ONE OF
WHOM HAPPENED TO BE A DOCTOR, PASSED BY.  THE DOCTOR CONFIRMED RUBY HAD
INDEED BROKEN HIS LEG THE DOCTOR HELPED RUBY WITH HIS LEG AND THE GROUP
HELPED SET UP HIS TENT AND STRING HIS ANTENNA.  THEY SAID THEY WOULD PASS
ON MY CONDITIONS AND WHEREABOUTS TO THE RANGERS, BUT FIGURED THEY WERE
ABOUT THREE DAYS OUT FROM SEEING ANYONE, HE SAID.  SO RUBY FIRED UP HIS
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