Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread

[outwhere]

I'll probably not update this stuff after this one. It's just not that interesting anymore. Like, if I had a nickle for every mylar balloon I've found....

And now I agree with CM's sentiment, enough of this.

Unless someone invents an original way to demonstrate their stupidty

I do appreciate you posting these Eaton 'falls' reports cougarmagic, thanks much, can understand if you don't want to keep posting them but if you do keep posting them, wouldn't say no that...

Not trying to tally [possible] toe tags or anything like that,,, but these reports are an interesting insight at just how many people get themselves screwed up there ---- and what it takes/effects to get them down....

Risking rescuers' lives, particularly in a preventable situation like this, is rather inexcusable.

It really might take a 'party of 5 ??' to tumble down together before much, if anything, will change the situation...



And then there's the one from AW's fantastic misc 21 news posts....

Ugggg, why couldn't 'The Game' be someone that was lost and not found [his way down]

"The Game"

http://www.pasadenamonthly.com/articles ... 2013-06-28


Just two days before the team’s rounds, in fact, world-renowned rapper The Game and several of his friends attempted to find the second water- fall-only to get lost. The Game was able to find his way to safety, but one member of his crew was not.

Although this wasn't a bad answer... maybe someone undersold/told him on Runyon vs Eaton



So it goes...

[Sitting Bull]

Wouldn't it cost less to build a safe trail to the second waterfall than having all these rescues and accidents every year?

[tekewin]

Wouldn't it cost less to build a safe trail to the second waterfall than having all these rescues and accidents every year?

Then people would get stuck getting to the third waterfall. Or the fourth.

[cougarmagic]

Just for old times' sake:

http://altadena.patch.com/groups/police ... ton-canyon

Deputy Mark Williams with the Altadena Sheriff’s Station said the hikers, a male and female in their early 20s, were hiking near the large waterfall when they slipped and fell.

They were spotted by another hiker clinging onto a tree at around 3:45 p.m., said Williams.

[cougarmagic]

Ooh, a special twist to this one!

http://altadena.patch.com/groups/police ... g-warrants

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Two stranded hikers were rescued on a cliff at Eaton Canyon Tuesday, but were later arrested when authorities found that they had two outstanding warrants

[Teejate]

Ooh, a special twist to this one!

http://altadena.patch.com/groups/police ... g-warrants

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Two stranded hikers were rescued on a cliff at Eaton Canyon Tuesday, but were later arrested when authorities found that they had two outstanding warrants

I found the irony that they were found at 4:20 to be pretty entertaining.

[HikeUp]

So so so happy that some things never change...

Two hikers rescued at Eaton Canyon Friday

by TImothy Rutt

RescueSearch and rescue teams rescued two hikers spotted hanging on to branches to keep from falling down a cliff face Friday afternoon.

According to a spokesman from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the two hikers were spotted in Eaton Canyon and a 911 call went out at 11:31 AM Friday, Dec. 27. The two were rescued by combined teams of the fire and sheriff's department with the help of a helicopter, and were transported to the hospital for evaluation.

http://www.altadenablog.com/2013/12/two ... riday.html

This is your future people...we're fucked.

[Hikin_Jim]

This is your future people...we're fucked.

Take off the rose colored glasses, you danged optimist.

HJ

[HikeUp]

[AW~]

A reopening of the area quickly resulted in incidents.
Given the recent rains and resulting saturation and slickness, it will be considered suicidal to attempt the second falls....thus decrees AW

The news reporting a woman in her 30s fell 30ft to life-threatening injuries. Shes lucky she fell as it only goes higher and more difficult. But it also goes to show that making it 'easier' solves nothing but deciding for people who think its easy now.

[AW~]

Another close fall...although Id have to say its backed off the max 'suicide level' warning ...back to highly discouraged/#NotAtrail level.

Today{3/12/17} minutes after noon, Altadena Mountain Rescue Team was called for the rescue of a hiker who had fallen in the area of Eaton Canyon Waterfall, in the Angeles National Forest. Los Angeles County Fire Department units responded and hiked into Eaton Canyon. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Air Rescue 5 responded to Eaton Canyon and located a 29 y/o male resident of El Monte at the bottom of the canyon. Air 5 hoisted the injured hiker, who was complaining of a shoulder injury, and his two uninjured friends and flew them to Huntington Memorial Hospital. The injured hiker and his friends, male and female adult were attempting to reach the second waterfall and the injured hiker fell approximately 50' off Acrophobia Ridge and landed on the ground below. The hikers injury was serious and required treatment at a trauma center.

The injured hiker attempted to bring his son, a young juvenile to the second waterfall, but the juvenile felt too nervous to climb the crumbling hillside and he stayed behind. Fire Department and Altadena rescue team members met the juvenile hiker and escorted him to his grandmother at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center.

[Sean]

The juvenile had more sense than the adult. So, I wonder if they actually fine these people who disobey the closure order.

[AW~]

The juvenile had more sense than the adult. So, I wonder if they actually fine these people who disobey the closure order.

Its open...closure order ended in Jan.

[Sean]

Thanks. Better get my butt over there before it shuts down again.

[Taco]

Let em go. Take all the warning signs down. Maybe just fly a bigass blimp over the city and yell really loud "if you fuck up, it's your fault" once, really really loud so everyone hears it.

Let the rest of the cosmos do its thing.