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Merrell Founder Wife and Grandson Swept Away
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That is scary and sad. We were hiking the Mist Trail in Yosemite a few years ago in the summer after a particularly wet spring. Several hikers had been carried over Vernal Falls earlier that year and never found. As I was hiking I thought to myself that the dropping summer water levels might reveal some things I didn't want to see. As it turns out, a body was found the day after we hiked the trail.
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odd man out wrote:
That is scary and sad. We were hiking the Mist Trail in Yosemite a few years ago in the summer after a particularly wet spring. Several hikers had been carried over Vernal Falls earlier that year and never found. As I was hiking I thought to myself that the dropping summer water levels might reveal some things I didn't want to see. As it turns out, a body was found the day after we hiked the trail.
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Drybones wrote:
The power of water is so easy to under estimate...I've had several opportunities to be a goner.
I personally know two folks who died ten years apart being sucked into hydraulics and pinned to the bottom. The second required a multi-day expedition with cables and come-a-longs to winch them out. The first eventually got spit out and was found a week later, 40 miles downstream...
Just like bear don't care, water don't care.
To say I have a healthy respect for water/oceans/rivers is an understatement... -
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Trebor wrote:
One article I read said that they "lost their footing" while crossing the stream. Can't help but see they irony.....
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Trebor wrote:
One article I read said that they "lost their footing" while crossing the stream. Can't help but see they irony.....
Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less. - Robert E. Lee -
We did a 9 mile night hike after 3 days of rain and a down pour happening during the hike, 6" streams became dangerous, I didn't realize how bad until one of the ladies got swept away on the first crossing, fortunately I was standing where I could grab her, we both went under for a ways before I could get footing and get us out, fortunately I had brought a rope to use on the other streams....was a fantastic hike!I may grow old but I'll never grow up.
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meat wrote:
I see now you said a few years, not many years, anywho same thing, someone went over...hell of a way to go!
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ScareBear wrote:
Drybones wrote:
The power of water is so easy to under estimate...I've had several opportunities to be a goner.
I personally know two folks who died ten years apart being sucked into hydraulics and pinned to the bottom. The second required a multi-day expedition with cables and come-a-longs to winch them out. The first eventually got spit out and was found a week later, 40 miles downstream...
Just like bear don't care, water don't care.
To say I have a healthy respect for water/oceans/rivers is an understatement...
Lest we forget.....
SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
PFC Adam Harris - USA
MSgt Eden Pearl - USMC -
Dan76 wrote:
ScareBear wrote:
Drybones wrote:
The power of water is so easy to under estimate...I've had several opportunities to be a goner.
Just like bear don't care, water don't care.
To say I have a healthy respect for water/oceans/rivers is an understatement...
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