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Chain-reaction rescue killed three at Yosemite
L A Times ^ | 07/20/2011

Posted on 07/20/2011 12:40:29 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Edited on 07/20/2011 12:53:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Several people in a hiking group at Yosemite that included three who were swept away and presumed dead had climbed over a barricade and were in the water about 25 feet from the edge of a waterfall, standing, playing and taking photographs, witnesses told Yosemite rangers.


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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: vernalfalls; yosemite
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To: truthguy

I’ve climbed those rocks at the base, no problem if you’re careful.

Vernal, on the other hand, scared the crap out of me, I would never go over that guardrail!

Ed


81 posted on 07/21/2011 11:36:50 AM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: The KG9 Kid
When the famous aviator Steve Fossett went missing in his plane crossing the Sierra just a few miles south of my home, thousands of volunteers spread out searching for him.

Just a few miles north of me. Very rugged country around the Minarets. I once crossed a gully in my truck during a flash flood in a very remote part of Death Valley when I was young and dumb.

82 posted on 07/21/2011 5:51:34 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Sent you an FR message. Forgot about this one from just the other day:

Oregon rangers rescue man from fall at Crater Lake http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2747492/posts


83 posted on 07/22/2011 12:54:26 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: The KG9 Kid

Once again someone going beyond the barrier and he could have ended up dead just like the guys from Yosemite.


84 posted on 07/22/2011 12:55:17 AM PDT by beaversmom
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