CoasterBeagle Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 From the Park service : http://www.nps.gov/yose/parknews/vfallsar11b.htm From BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14227816 Extremely tragic, what amazes me is the fact other visitors were telling them that they weren't doing the brightest thing. I've been to the top of vernal falls (access point The Mist Trail) 3 times. I have seen people do stupid things but nothing that has ever compelled me to actually tell people to stop doing what they are doing. I just feel so bad for the families. Shows the mist trail in it: http://www.nps.gov/yose/photosmultimedia/strenuousvalleyhikes.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ghost Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 And the Darwin Award goes to... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Darwin at work here. There are quite a few interesting books out there called "Death at the Park" or something like that about all kinds of interesting deaths at the National Parks. Yellowstone has some of the most gruesome ones! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Please try to be respectful as possible to these dead idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterBeagle Posted July 20, 2011 Author Share Posted July 20, 2011 I knew the natural selection and all that stuff would come up in this thread but lets try not to delve to much into that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayTheGForceBeWithYou Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 There are quite a few interesting books out there called "Death at the Park" or something like that about all kinds of interesting deaths at the National Parks. Yellowstone has some of the most gruesome ones! Agreed. The one with the kid falling into Crested Pool was pretty nasty, namely because the Park Service only recovered 8 pounds of him. As for this incident, people need to exercise common sense when visiting places like Yosemite. The barricade was there for a reason, and these people paid the price for their ignorance. It's still sad that they had to die for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Yeah, sorry, but the more information that comes out about this the less I feel sorry for them. Three twentysomethings, tons of people screaming and warning them once they CROSSED THE BARRIER!!!! Then one of them falls in and the other two try to grab him and they fall in too. I feel bad for the children and people that had to witness this stupidity and will have their faces and screams etched in their minds from now on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougMJr Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Living near Niagara falls, I understand how dangerous running water can be. The currents both above and below the falls are VERY strong. About once every year or two we hear about somebody needing to be rescued from the rapids. In addition, while on the whirlpool jetboat tour we saw three "twentysomethings" standing out on the boulders just feet away from the rapids. The captain took the boat near them, passengers waved at them, then the capitan yelled at them over the loudspeaker telling them to head back upland. If they fell, not only would they be swept in... but they would be forced downstream towards the outlets of two hydro electric generating plants and then past a suspended cable which marks the "point of no return," past witch coast guard will not even attempt to save you. Basically it all comes down to common sense. Your body is no match against millions of gallons of water pushing towards you at 10+ mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downunder Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Very unwise, I've camped at Yosemite 4 times, and there is plenty of caution needed there. When I last did half dome they were saying people have gone outside the chains to get past slower hikers and met unpleasant ends falling off the rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterBeagle Posted July 21, 2011 Author Share Posted July 21, 2011 Just to let people know, the Death on the wall, the book about the people tripping on acid on top of half dome. A lot of the information in that is wrong. One of my instructors at my school was a park ranger at yosemite when that happened and he read that book. When I started talking about he said that the information was wrong. So I believe him considering he was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal1br3tto Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 There are quite a few interesting books out there called "Death at the Park" or something like that about all kinds of interesting deaths at the National Parks. Yellowstone has some of the most gruesome ones! So true! I've sure been deeply disturbed by at least a couple of those stories. As for this incident, people need to exercise common sense when visiting places like Yosemite. The barricade was there for a reason, and these people paid the price for their ignorance. It's still sad that they had to die for it. Quoted for agreement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrygator Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Natural Selection, the great neutralizer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenA07 Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Years ago I was at the Grand Canyon... I watched a man jump (climb) over a barrier because he wanted to get a better picture. Barriers are there for a reason! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 I knew the natural selection and all that stuff would come up in this thread but lets try not to delve to much into that area. Why? The fittest survive. The idiots jump a fence and fall off a waterfall. It's pretty clear here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeemerBoy Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Are the rocks at the bottom okay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dailey Enterprizes Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 I knew the natural selection and all that stuff would come up in this thread but lets try not to delve to much into that area. I agree that nobody deserves to die because that would mean that anybody could say that about anyone for any reason. In this case with the three people it's just a horrible accident that shouldn't have happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ghost Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Are the rocks at the bottom okay? It's 4am(yes I'm nerdy for reading at 4am... ) and this just made me literally laugh out loud! Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philrad71 Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Here are some pics I took last year in New Hampshire of some morons. The helicopter twirl and the woman with the baby right at the edge of the cliff sickened me. We were also at Yellowstone the week before the guy got mauled by the bear and for some reason, this didn't surprise me. I couldn't believe the morons that would stop their cars right in the middle of the road, back traffic up for miles while they got out of their cars to take pictures of bears and buffalo. I don't think I have ever heard my Dad drop the f-bomb so many times in my life! And would me hollering "GORE HER, GORE HER!!" out the window at a woman that was less than four feet from a Buffalo herd with babies taking pictures be a little too unkind and uncaring??? Also watching a guy stick his hand into one of the hot springs to see how hot the water was will also be etched into my minds as one of the most moronic things I have ever witnessed in my life. I think he was lucky to still have flesh left on his skin after that! This clown thought he was impressing everyone by jogging up the mountain road and then seeing how close he could get to the edge. "Like, I wonder how far down that drop is?" "Honey, the baby wants to see how high up we are!" "This is SO going on Facebook as soon as we get home!" "I'm King Of Teh Mountain!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Thriller Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Only in America would they be a victim even after breaking the rules and doing something incredibly stupid. What's next, their families sue Yosemite? Idiots. --James "I can't fake that much respect" Flint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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