Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Photographer injured in fall during Tevis Cup

Auburnjournal.com - Full Article

7/26/10

A photographer was airlifted to a Reno hospital after a fall from Cougar Rock on the Western States Trail during the Tevis Cup endurance ride Saturday.

Chris Gonzalez, 41, suffered a broken ankle, two broken wrists and a broken nose, according to Melinda Hughes-Berland, owner of Hughes Photography in Santa Rosa.

“He just stepped backward and all of a sudden he was airborne,” Hughes-Berland said Monday.

It was his first time to cover the ride for Hughes, the official Tevis Cup photographer for 30 years.

On Monday, Gonzalez, a Santa Rosa resident, was recovering at Renown Hospital in Reno and was to be transferred to a Kaiser facility, Hughes said.

Cougar Rock is 23.5 miles into the 100-mile trek, which runs from Robie Park near Truckee to Auburn. The accident happened a little after 9 a.m., ride director Mike Pickett said...

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