EISPIRATEN

Even a place with short not so steep hikes can be danger

http://www.thespectrum.com/article/2009 ... identified

edenooch wrote:Even a place with short not so steep hikes can be danger

http://www.thespectrum.com/article/2009 ... identified

Angels Landing is the white angel of death! That place kills people all the time. The short section between Scout's Lookout to the actual landing is pretty steep. It's also narrow. If you slip off the trail, it's a 1,000 ft one-way express ticket to the bottom of the canyon.

It think this has been posted here before but it's worth a read http://www.summitpost.org/trip-report/5 ... l-sun.html

bertfivesix wrote:It think this has been posted here before but it's worth a read http://www.summitpost.org/trip-report/5 ... l-sun.html

I haven't seen that. Thanks for posting. Man, that's crazy.

Angels Landing is one of my favorite places. I've done the scramble up that spine four or five times and each time I was more scared of having to see someone else fall off. Something about seeing someone falling in free fall to their death is haunting to me. Here if you fall, you're going into free fall.

There is an amazing variety of people that go up there and some aren't going to be as careful or sure-footed as you need to be. Even then, the first time I was there, it just was two days after an experienced hiker fell off from the top. It's sad, but there will always be deaths there. I just hope they don't close it.

They should post a sign that says how many people have died up there to really get the message across instead of just a sign that says "Narrow Route with Cliff Exposure."

so sad. and the summitpost report was chilling.

i have only done that hike once and i remember it as being easy and i was not sketched-out about the exposure. though two men in our group of mtn bikers decided not to go on when they saw the chains. for me, the first time i did Half Dome was scarier than Angel's Landing.

i am always amazed by the masses of recreational hikers that scale Half Dome each year and how few fatalities there are on that last 800'.

i always hate hearing about deaths in the mountains that i love so much.