Yellowstone NP visitor presumed dead after falling into hot spring

krtv ^ | June 7, 2016 | Aja Goare

[bgill]

are = aren’t

[Rio]

Colin Nathaniel Scott, 23, was with his sister when he walked off a designated boardwalk and fell at the Norris Geyser Basin on Tuesday, according to Yellowstone National Park. He fell 225 yards from the boardwalk.

From Portland, Oregon

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/06/portland_man_dies_after_fallin.html#incart_river_home

[bgill]

Thanks for the update.

Stupid human tricks.

[SaveFerris]

Yes, I was wondering if distances changed.

[Fightin Whitey]

They just SEEM longer as one grows old.

[SaveFerris]

lol

[MortMan]

“Well done”

I’m poaching that for future reference!

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Tragic event. Other reports indicate he was with his sister, though not clear if she left the boardwalk. I was a 20 something too, even a teenager. But I fail to understand how even kids over the age of 8 or so ignore the copious signs about the geysers, the buffalo, the bears when they're ithe threats are within eyesight.

[SJackson]

If Yellowstone park was owned by a private individual and they opened it up to tourist the federal government would impose so many restriction on it they would go out of business.

You're correct, lots of parks. Admission would be more than Disney, have to pay the trial lawyers.

[proud American in Canada]

Oh no! Went there as a little girl. Our parents held our hands..

[clearcarbon]

"Hey Boo-Boo."

"Is it soup yet, Yogi?"

"It's soup!"

[BBB333]

“...told us about a dog that had jumped into a hot spring. They don’t try to rescue you.”

They did not tell you the whole story.

I live just north of YNP and when I was in college here (Bozeman) that’s when the dog jumped into a pool - and the owner jumped in to save the dog as it was yelping like crazy.

Both were DOA.

Nature is brutal.

[Thibodeaux]

I suggest he was a biologist and went to a pristine location to collect samples of the bacteria existing in the hellish environment

the bacteria ate him

[cherry]

he is described as a good young man and probably got caught up the excitement of Yellowstone....May God bless his soul and help his sister and his family through this awful time...

it was an accident....perhaps we should have a little sympathy for those who are naïve about nature's wrath...

its not like he died robbing a liquor store...