Posted on 06/10/2018 5:05:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Park and Tulare County swift-water rescue resources responded to the Kaweah River around midday after receiving a report that a visitor was swept down the middle fork of the river, according to a news release from the National Park Service.
The man had gone into the river downslope of the park entrance sign parking lot, officials stated. Park rangers found the man and determined he had died...
“With rising area temperatures, rivers look very inviting. Please stay away as they are swift, cold, and dangerous,” said Park Ranger Elizabeth Dietzen.
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The man’s name was not immediately released, but park rangers said he was 36 years old.
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Darwin.
You’ll get that.
You mean Mother Nature isn’t like a Disneyland ride?
RIP.
DHMO is nasty stuff, it will kill you.
if a tree falls on you in the forest does anyone hear you scream?
If a man is in the forest and his wife doesn’t hear him, is he still wrong?
I was up there last year in the May run-off season which that year was at record high water. There were a number of people that got swept in at that river and in King’s Canyon.
To get in that river when it is up is beyond foolish.
I swim well, even for an old-timer. I boat and have canoed a lot in rivers. No way would I venture into that river hopping rocks.
of course!
When I was a kid, mid 60’s, we were playing near the river in Kings Canyon when my younger brother fell in. My dad was fishing downstream and waded out to catch him. Another fellow fishing near my dad helped pull them both out. I remember hearing a woman, her father and her boyfriend all died in that river the same weekend when the latter tried to save the woman.
Shhhh. Don’t let the blame Clinto crowd know. They’ll say it was murder
I don’t know where you think you’re at, but if you’ve got a problem with the blame-Clinton crowd you couldn’t be more in the wrong place. FR *is* the blame-Clinton crowd and was literally created for that purpose.
if a tree falls on you in the forest does anyone hear you scream?
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A hungry bear might hear you.
"Park rangers found the man and determined he had died ..."
Fast or slow, moving water always wins.
Better than dying in Compton..........
Well, you could drown in the L A River there. But you’d need to wait for a really rainy day.
Someone I know lost his wife in King’s Canyon a dozen years ago. Two couples on a backpacking vacation. They returned from a day of hiking to their camp near the river. Three of them went off on some errand but the wife decided to stay back and rest by the riverbank. When the others returned she was nowhere to be found. Her body was recovered downriver three weeks later.
This was mid summer but the water was high and running fast. They were experienced hikers. She may have decided to cool her feet in the water and slipped, or maybe the current was strong enough pull her in.
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