A disagreement about doing the dishes escalated into violence up the Fryingpan on Saturday night, sending one roommate to the hospital and the other to the Pitkin County Jail.
Arrested on charges of second-degree assault was Tim Hosfield, 41, of the Thomasville area, according to Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office reports. Thomasville is an unincorporated area about 20 miles east of Basalt.
According to those reports, Hosfield and his roommate were having a disagreement about washing dishes. Hosfield allegedly attempted to conclude the debate by smacking his roommate in the head with a bottle. The roommate was taken to the hospital to be stitched up. Hosfield was taken to jail, where he posted a $10,000 bond.
In other weekend news
The sheriff’s office received a report of two overdue climbers in the Maroon Bells area at about 9 p.m. on Saturday.
The reporting party said the two climbers, both experienced, used a cell phone to check in at 11 a.m. from the summit above the Bell Cord Couloir and said they would be out by 4 p.m. via the standard South Ridge route, according to sheriff’s deputy Grant Jahnke. When the reporting party did not hear from the climbers by 9 p.m., he called the sheriff’s office.
Search teams from Mountain Rescue Aspen headed up the South Ridge route towards the Grand Couloir at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday. A Mountain Rescue Aspen observation team was also stationed on the east flank of Pyramid Peak, while an observation plane circled above.
At 9:45 a.m., a jogger reported that she met two men approximately 3.5 miles from the Snowmass Creek trailhead who asked her to notify authorities explaining that they were 18 hours overdue, but were safe.
Sheriff’s deputies picked up the climbers near the Snowmass Creek trailhead and took them to the Mountain Rescue cabin for debriefing. Robert O’Rourke, of Boulder, and Tom Woods, of Lyons, said that despite knowing the geography of the area fairly well, they took the wrong trail down and ended up outside the search area.
The two men were uninjured.
