Posted on 04/07/2022 10:09:42 PM PDT by zeestephen
The discovery came a week after the doctor, a 26-year-old cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin, set off alone on a hike through the area, which features trails and a towering waterfall, surrounded by steep clay banks.
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People die every year on the trails in Yosemite doing that.
She must have been very smart and hard working to be a fellow at age 26.
The Wild will kill you dead, sometimes.
Eh, she couldn’t have been that bright.
Since when is hiking alone in the woods a good idea for a woman?
I hope she was not in involved with any of the fraud that was so prevalent in the Election in Wisconsin.
Prayers going up.
IMHO unless you have a lot more people along, you are probably about as safe being alone as not.
Since when is hiking alone in the woods a good idea for a woman?
It's empowering. That's enough for any risk. /s.
RIP.
Safer than it sounds on the surface.
A big Black Lives Matter supporter.
“[she] died after veering away from an observation area overlooking the waterfall to get a closer look at the river.”
That look she got was a view of a lifetime!
I’ll bet she regretted it about 2 seconds into her fall.
I’ve done plenty of stupid dangerous stuff in my life. I got away with it, she wasn’t as lucky.
Out in the wild wanting a closer look can be terminal. I once walked up on a bear trap at Yellowstone’s Canyon Village camp ground. The rangers had trapped a black bear. I’d seen animals in zoos so I walk up to the trap bars to look at the bear. It was pissed off. I got my face about a foot from the bars. It hit them from about 6’ doing a 100. Scared the 💩 outa me! Getting a closer look is a bad idea in a lot of instances. Just saying.
Leave the moose alone.
If I see a bullwinkle, I exit, stage left, with large trees between me and it.
Per the article:
“She was also a Black Lives Matter supporter .....”
She apparently was educated beyond her common sense and won the Darwin Award.
The crap I’ve seen people do in Yellowstone is unbelievable. I was 18 and set up by my uncle, he had already seen the bear and directed me to the trap. He got quite a kick out of me jumping back. Then we watched as the campground woke up. I’ve lived out here now for over 30 years. It’s still a petting zoo to visitors. They get a view they don’t want sometimes. Elk in the rut and wounded mule deer aren’t to be screwed with either. The politics aside. The girl shoulda stayed on the trail. Mother Nature can be a beotch.
3 weeks ago, she would have been OK.
The ground is softening because of the melt, and the article says it's clay.
The satellite view looks like clay-sand, which you see a lot in that area of Northern Wisconsin. Greasier than greasy when it's saturated.
Her parents spent a lot of money on her. Wish they’d spent more time teaching her about the beaten path and caution. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes he gets you.
That area up there can kill you quick.
I've almost froze to death twice around there.
Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes he gets you.
Indeed.
Dude - Idaho has AWESOME plums. Scored on a box of them last fall and made oodles of powidla.
Its not a good idea for anyone, if its not an absolute necessity.
Third one:
Dont go near the edge.
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