Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:43 pm
by outwhere
cougarmagic wrote: ↑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....
HikeUp wrote: ↑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]
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...
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:40 pm
by 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?
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 9:56 pm
by tekewin
Sitting Bull wrote: ↑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.
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
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.
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
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
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 2:25 pm
by Teejate
cougarmagic wrote: ↑Ooh, a special twist to this one!
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.
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 9:51 pm
by 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.
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 10:20 pm
by Hikin_Jim
HikeUp wrote: ↑This is your future people...we're fucked.
Take off the rose colored glasses, you danged optimist.
HJ
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 6:48 am
by HikeUp
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 10:50 am
by 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.
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 3:27 pm
by 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.
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 5:08 pm
by Sean
The juvenile had more sense than the adult. So, I wonder if they actually fine these people who disobey the closure order.
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 3:43 pm
by AW~
Sean wrote: ↑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.
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 4:27 pm
by Sean
Thanks. Better get my butt over there before it shuts down again.
Re: Official "People falling in Eaton Canyon" thread
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:34 am
by 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.
