It's a beautiful area.
It’s easy to get lost if you leave the trail, even just by a few feet. It happened to me when I went to Jasper.
I was on a trail and was heading home. I saw the trail below me and thought I could just go through the bush down to it. So I did. I ended up losing sight of both trails. My phone was nearly out of power but it gave me my bearings well enough that I was able to find a trail to get on and get back to my car.
So, I learned to always carry a couple of small power packs onhand if I am not just at home or at work to keep my phone charged.
Ping
No disrespect to the deceased, but the downside is the area is infested with hippies
This should warn people not to go out on treacherous ventures alone. Always have someone with you and a way to communicate if there is an accident.
As the 1990s song had it, “Don’t go chasing waterfalls.”
R.I.P.
Don’t know if it was the case with her but a lot of the deaths at nature areas lately have been due to instagram selfies. Just at the Grand Canyon alone about 12 drop to their deaths every year.
Wife and I hiked up to Hickory Falls at Chimney Rock in N.Carolina. A guy had his hat blow off and it sailed down to the rocks near the falls, landed about 100 feet down. The guy went down the rocks and got the hat. The rocks were wet and slippery near where the hat landed. There was still a long drop from where the hat was. There were maybe 20 people watching the guy and everyone was holding their breath.
It was a very nice hat, probably $200 at least, but no way I would have gone down those rocks.
Very sad for all her family and friends.
How sad. Especially sad her parents came out to help find her only to get that devastating news.
I always wanted to visit Tassajara but never got there. It was supposed to be a wonderful retreat area. It didn’t fare well in the fires a few years ago, I recall.
Taking a Selfie ?
I suppose anyone can trip and fall anytime but I’d be surprised if she didn’t die going for an awesome selfie. RIP.
Its not the fall that kills you, its that sudden stop at the bottom.
Which reminds me of....
It isn’t the cough that carries you off, its the coffin they carry you off in.
Check her camera for selfies...especially one of her just before she impacts the ground.
There is no greater self love than that a person would lay down his life for the sake of a good selfie. Now that I got that off my chest this is indeed sad.
People… DON’T TAKE DANGEROUS SELFIES. It;s idiotic,