“We made it all the way here to send a message,” Sanchez said. Sanchez said she wants to move on with her life and just be left alone.
31 was the last time she hiked the Incline and claims she is moving on to “other adventures.” “There is a group of people who are associated with the clubs on the Manitou Incline who set out to do a string of malicious and hateful things to my family just because I had the audacity to break a record,” Geissler said. Other witnesses however claimed Geissler was kind and never aggressive to other hikers. In court, he said the form was created 85% because of Geissler and the numerous complaints from multiple athletes about alleged harassment. The President of the Incline Club, Greg Cummings, said the group created a code of conduct form earlier this year that members must sign.
The court proceedings Friday show a divide within the professional Incline hiking community, with people on both sides taking to the witness stand to defend the hikers. “To Noelia and her family, who chose to blatantly lie about the situation and ignore the numerous times I showed her kindness, shame on them for misusing our legal system,” Geissler said.
