SAN DIEGO—A pair of climbers who died trying to scale a mountainside east of Idyllwild have been identified as Huntington Beach residents, one of them a former Dallas Cowboys and San Diego State football player.
Gavin Escobar, 31, and Chelsea Walsh, 33, died about 12:20 p.m. Sept. 28 near the Tahquitz Peak Fire Lookout, southeast of Humber Park, within the San Bernardino National Forest, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
Escobar was an off-duty Long Beach firefighter who joined the agency in February, according to a department Facebook post. Escobar was a former National Football League tight end who spent four years with the Dallas Cowboys and also had stints with teams including the Baltimore Ravens and Miami Dolphins….