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Hiker Killed in Fall at Yosemite’s Half Dome ID’d as 29-Year-Old Arizona Woman
KABC ^ | 09/06/2019

Posted on 09/06/2019 12:37:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Danielle Burnett, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, was scaling the steepest part of the trail Thursday when she fell more than 500 feet (150 meters) down the steep, rocky terrain.

Gediman says Burnett was dead when Park Rangers arrived on the scene.

Rangers installed cables to help hikers get to the top of the 8,800-foot rock face.

The cables are installed each summer to assist the climbs of thousands of hikers who make the popular 14-mile round trip.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: halfdome; hiker; killed; texasgatortroll; yosemite
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To: SimpleJack; All
Half Dome video:

https://youtu.be/P1szBvmoDgE

21 posted on 09/06/2019 12:57:24 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: originalbuckeye

“And I’m assuming there is a different way back down.”

It’s the only way for a hiker to get up and down. Unless one want’s to do a swan dive off the front face.


22 posted on 09/06/2019 12:57:57 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

Some people are always in a hurry.


23 posted on 09/06/2019 12:58:38 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Rebelbase

Squirrel suit with parachute would be fun...


24 posted on 09/06/2019 12:59:21 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: SimpleJack; All
Better Half Dome cable hike:

https://youtu.be/Ar9pNenQbK8

25 posted on 09/06/2019 12:59:24 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: BenLurkin

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216044945707922&set=a.1469705314094&type=3&theater


26 posted on 09/06/2019 1:00:16 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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To: BenLurkin

Bummer of a finish, but she got a great selfie!


27 posted on 09/06/2019 1:00:24 PM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (Oh boy!)
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To: Rebelbase

The picture in post 20 makes it look much less steep and wider than the picture in post 9.


28 posted on 09/06/2019 1:00:36 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: Rebelbase; Gamecock; SaveFerris

There aren’t enough sandwiches in the world....


29 posted on 09/06/2019 1:01:19 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin

Sad. RIP.


30 posted on 09/06/2019 1:01:47 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: Cobra64

You’ve got to be kidding me! No fricking way!


31 posted on 09/06/2019 1:05:54 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Enterprise

Did you ever see the documentary “Free Solo”?


32 posted on 09/06/2019 1:07:23 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Hot Tabasco

That dude is out of his mind.
I found it hard to watch.


33 posted on 09/06/2019 1:10:17 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ClearCase_guy

they’ve been using the cables for about 100 yrs IIRC.....


34 posted on 09/06/2019 1:13:01 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Rebelbase

Those climbers are actually scaling the electrode of a giant spark plug.


35 posted on 09/06/2019 1:13:35 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Hot Tabasco

I have. That guy has balls of granite.


36 posted on 09/06/2019 1:14:16 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: SimpleJack

If you stay inside the cables, its not easy to misstep or fall from there.

I suspect she fell once she was at the top - people like to take selfies at the sheer cliffs at the summit.


37 posted on 09/06/2019 1:17:52 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: EEGator

Read the first sentence.


38 posted on 09/06/2019 1:22:14 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I’m pretty sure I haven’t.


39 posted on 09/06/2019 1:23:03 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: SimpleJack

Ah yes, the lure of mountaineering. To boldly go where no man has gone before....


40 posted on 09/06/2019 1:23:27 PM PDT by sphinx
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