Posted on 06/22/2021 12:45:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A woman found dead in the Grand Canyon Sunday likely succumbed to overheating, according to park officials.
Michelle Meder, 53... was hiking with a group Saturday when she became disoriented, then lost consciousness, the National Park Service said Monday.
The backpacking group, which was on a multi-day trip down the Hermit Trail to the Bright Angel Trail, flagged someone down to radio park rangers, but officials were unable to get to Meder until Sunday, by which time she had already died.
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I know that’s from a movie with a young Chevy Chase, but I never saw the film. What happens here? They stand at the Grand Canyon for a good 30 seconds, then decide that’s enough? Some folks just don’t get into looking at or walking around mountains, they consider mountains as just big piles of dirt, not a whole lot more.
The fact that not one person in the group (what kind of group was this?, any experienced hikers or was this just a group of ordinary, non-hiking folk?), knew how to deal with it, let alone prevent it. Why couldn’t they reach her until the next day?
They stand at the Grand Canyon for a good 30 seconds, then decide that’s enough?
Basically, yes.
Save yourself the trouble and go to Bryce Canyon in Utah instead.
I found that to be far more scenic, and impressive.
No one stayed with her?
WTH?
“Save yourself the trouble and go to Bryce Canyon in Utah instead.”
And take the horseback ride to see the wonders up close and/or from a different angle!
I do like the Grand Canyon too, and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. And Arches, etc. etc.
Heat stroke. Avoid it
I recall being at the Petrified Forrest in Arizona in 115 degree heat. It really didn’t seem that bad, at first. I took a short hike around a loop called The Chrystal Forrest, and within 400 yards I was in trouble. The air is so dry the water is just sucked out through your lungs. You either have to be used to it, or have a lot of water handy. Later, I was driving down some lonely back road from Phoenix to Ajo through the desert, and every now and again I would see some baked, thin, zombie-like figure stumbling along the roadside. I wondered how they could possibly survive.
They are driving across the country and have gotten delayed with one misfortune, after another so they are running out of time. They are trying to make it to a theme park in California.
Oh indeed
I roast beef in dry heat
Sounds like a fun movie: “Wheel of Mis-Fortune”
Got to the south rim a couple of days after Christmas on year. White-out at 4:30 in the afternoon. Was at the rim the next morning as the storm cleared gradually and got the most fantastic light/shadow, cloud/mist and unique vistas that can be imagined. Went up and down the south rim overlooks and had a great day and a half visits with the grand-daughter in tow.
Did the north rim a couple of years ago and want to get one of those little cabins for a few nights and do star watching on a new moon night. Magical but very high altitude takes some adjustment.
The other part of the joke is that Clark Griswold keeps wanting to detour to see every worthless roadside attraction along the way (World’s Largest Mud House or something like that), but has no time for the Gateway Arch in St. Louis or the Grand Canyon.
I’ve heard about that place also and appreciate the good advice.
It was probably Chevy Chase’s best movie. “Vacation” was its name.
My mentor was a geology professor from Rutgers. He mentioned to me that every year he took his top geology student to the Grand Canyon, and travel down it by mule. Many times even the fittest would suffer heat exhaustion.
I agree.
Stunning and no crowds.
Arches is another good one.
It has been a long time since I have seen, so I have forgotten a lot about the movie. I haven’t forgotten a young Christy Brinkley however.
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