Posted on 04/05/2019 12:21:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Park rangers responded to a call shortly before noon Wednesday that someone had fallen over the rim.
The park's helicopter and technical rescue team recovered the body of a 67-year-old man. The name and hometown of the man wasn't immediately available.
The National Park Service and the Coconino County Medical Examiner are investigating the death, park officials said.
A spokeswoman said it was the first over-the-edge death this year at Grand Canyon National Park, which had 17 fatalities last year.
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On that subject, a few years ago, I went to the island of Kauaʻi in the Hawaiian Islands and saw a huge canyon there. It was definitely bigger than what I saw with the Grand Canyon.
Well it is 277 miles long...
“How can it be the first when two others fell off the side, last month?”
Those two were outside of the park.
Maybe you drank too much Sam Adams while you were there. How could a person not be impressed by that vista.
I’m not so sure about that. We spent part of our honeymoon in the Grand Canyon. I very much enjoyed exploring BOTH of them.
Maybe it was the margaritas. I wasn’t drinking Sam Adams in those days.
My wife and I visited that a few years ago and it was awesome. There are hiking trails there where you can walk right off the edge. Very cool, I recommend it.
The good thing is that Bryce, Zion, and Canyonlands are total people magnets. There’s a TON to see besides those places and they’re pretty much people-free. Capitol Reef is awesome. I went to Kodachrome State Park this weekend and hiked their 7-mile Panorama trail, also excellent. The drive between to towns of Escalante and Boulder, UT are really cool. I swear, you could go to that area 10,000 times and not see the same stuff twice.
Apparently the fallen were, too. One guy was taking a picture, gotta be kidding me. Get a postcard at the visitor’s center, they’re probably better pics than you’ll ever get. I don’t understand the selfie craze, I’m total opposite. You have a fantastic topography, why screw it up by putting a person in the shot? It’s idiotic vanity.
Myself and two friends illegally camped near the rim back in 1973. We were 19 at the time, didn’t have much money and didn’t know any better. Sunrise at the Canyon was awesome.
One was made by God, the other was made by man.
You can’t fix stupid.
I rode a mule down to the bottom
Not quite the same thing, But Zion was WOW, at least to me.
I would have loved to seen the GC via river rafting. Unfortunately, those days are over for me.
However, I did see it via helicopter and walking along the edge. My sister got closer to the edge than I would. At sundown it was awesome watching it change colors.
I also loved Bryce Canyon, Garden of the Gods, Columbia River Gorge, etc. etc. Great memories.
As Jerry Pournelle used to say: Think of it as evolution in action.
I’m thinking: why doesn’t the Park Service post a photograph of the shattered corpses of these people just beside where they fell off the edge?
A before and after sort of thing...
And ZION!!
On the donkey ride you are trusting your life to a donkey. Maybe he is having a bad day today. Maybe today is the day to throw someone off.
Years ago I read they had a sign where you purchased tickets to ride the donkeys.
“We have fat donkeys for fat people, skinny donkeys for skinny people, tall donkeys for tall people, and short donkeys for short people. For people who have never ridden a donkey, we have donkeys that have never been ridden.”
RIP.
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