Another one. Seventeen deaths in Yosemite this year.
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I believe this is the 3rd Half Dome death this year. This is the first year they are controlling everyday access to the cables on Half Dome, requiring a permit. I think this shows limiting the amount of hikers to make it safer hasn’t worked and the only people benefiting from that program are the folks scalping the permits.
2 posted on
08/24/2011 6:50:32 AM PDT by
socal_parrot
(I hate to say I told you so, but...)
To: socal_parrot
I’ve never understood this type of thrill-seeker personality. To each his own, but to me it’s such an artificial way to get a thrill. Same as skydiving. Like I said, to each his own, but I prefer the thrill of activities that also have a substantive, productive purpose. I look at unnecessary risk as a jinx.
3 posted on
08/24/2011 6:51:56 AM PDT by
Huck
(I don't believe there is just one God--humanity seems like the work of a committee to me.)
To: socal_parrot
Another one. Seventeen deaths in Yosemite this year. That's IT!
Time to close Yosemite. Aside from the fiscal savings of staff, maintenance and recovery efforts, if it saves just ONE life......
4 posted on
08/24/2011 6:53:40 AM PDT by
Roccus
(Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
To: socal_parrot
5 posted on
08/24/2011 6:55:48 AM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: socal_parrot
Officials suspect that a mysterious force causing acceleration of 32 feet per second, per second which has been known to affect climbers on the rock face, may have been the cause.
6 posted on
08/24/2011 6:56:26 AM PDT by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: socal_parrot
officials are trying to determine why a man fell to his death Gravity?
7 posted on
08/24/2011 6:56:46 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
To: socal_parrot
Yosemite National Park officials are trying to determine why a man fell to his death while climbing Half Dome Monday evening. Gravity?.....................
8 posted on
08/24/2011 6:58:02 AM PDT by
Red Badger
("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
To: socal_parrot
News flash! The Obama Administration has announced due to the many accidents caused by gravity
its been declared potentially dangerous to Americans. Therefore it must be regulated. Gravity shall be added to sugar, salt, tobacco, trans fats, guns, incandescent light bulbs and most of all liberty
as hazardous to health. It shall be regulated as the Secretary sees fit... because our Great Leader cares.
10 posted on
08/24/2011 6:58:35 AM PDT by
FiddlePig
(truth is hard... lies are easy - http://redneckoblogger.blogspot.com)
To: socal_parrot
Spock: I have been monitoring your progress.
Kirk: I'm flattered. Twelve hundred points of interest in Yosemite and you picked me.
To: socal_parrot
“Yosemite National Park officials are trying to determine why a man fell to his death while climbing Half Dome Monday evening.”
Gravity! :>)
13 posted on
08/24/2011 7:04:36 AM PDT by
Big_Harry
(Ecc10:2 "A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left")
To: socal_parrot
I have 2 friends from high school who climbed the FACE of Half Dome back in the 1950s. It took 2 days, as I remember, and they slept in rope slings on the face of the dome over night. They are both still alive today.
To: socal_parrot
Once you start rolling, there's no stopping.
Prayers for the hiker and his family.
15 posted on
08/24/2011 7:06:00 AM PDT by
SZonian
(July 27, 2010. Life begins anew.)
To: socal_parrot
“Mama said stupid is as stupid does.”
17 posted on
08/24/2011 7:07:18 AM PDT by
org.whodat
(What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
To: socal_parrot
"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Yosemite National Park officials are trying to determine why a man fell to his death while climbing Half Dome Monday evening." I can help out here.
In a word: GRAVITY!
23 posted on
08/24/2011 7:12:38 AM PDT by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: socal_parrot
[trying to determine why a man fell to his death ]
I’m thinking gravity might of had something to do with it. And trying to defy it.
29 posted on
08/24/2011 7:25:11 AM PDT by
DaxtonBrown
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To: socal_parrot
Seventeen deaths in Yosemite this year
Now I the real reason you aren't going to Yosemite with us this year. You're working on getting 100% of the inheritance!!!
36 posted on
08/24/2011 7:46:05 AM PDT by
OC_Steve
To: socal_parrot
so there’s a half dome someplace other than Minneapolis?
To: socal_parrot
To all those who said 'Gravity':
50 posted on
08/24/2011 9:18:20 AM PDT by
Moltke
(Always retaliate first.)
To: socal_parrot
I climbed it with my father and brother almost 20 years ago. Without knowing more details, I’ll venture and say that anyone who falls was probably doing something they knew they shouldn’t. The cables aren’t near as bad as you think, but going outside of them is asking for trouble. At the top, there wasn’t any railing so you have to be careful about getting close to the ledge. The area at the top is huge so if you want to avoid the edges, that isn’t hard to do. Just like the waterfall deaths, I think this guy was doing something that he shouldn’t have been doing.
56 posted on
08/24/2011 10:28:20 AM PDT by
Marko413
To: socal_parrot
Could be a serial killer.
57 posted on
08/24/2011 10:36:51 AM PDT by
isom35
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