[free me]

The story doesn’t say that. It just says they climbed a guardrail to reach the water.(25 ft from the edge of the falls no less)

Here is a picture of the guardrail they are referring to:

http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/Waterfalls/ClarksPointVernalFallsL.JPG

The story is accurate.

[AlmaKing]

Just to the right of the guardrail in that pic, there is no guardrail. I say it’s still not accurate. There’s no guardrail on the climb up the cliff either.

[Responsibility2nd]

From the article....

“Vernal Falls is marked with warning signs and barricaded off with a metal-bar guardrail that “takes some effort” to climb over, Gediman said.”

The guardrail in that picture would take no effort at all to climb over. But regardless.... That water scares me just looking at it.

Anyone who would climb into that is just asking for it.

[muawiyah]

AlmaKing ought to be saying about now "Oh, THAT guardrail" ~ hey, that ain't no thang. I mean out there where the water goes down."

Then we can laugh and laugh and laugh.