Do these people who college know that green can be mean.
U want to mess with mother nature in any way she will get u if u drop your guard
and well educated in green get then 6 feet into mothers natures root system.
Why don’t u fools in school learn how to stop being so right at everything u know nothing about.

Oops i left out some words. thank god I am still alive ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Try it some time ; it will humble u.

Gordon, set the drink down….

Perhaps not the appropriate time for your feeble attempt at humor.

My child was on his 3 day class trip there.The 1rst hiker was in front of these children when he slipped and fell.My child was very detailed in what had happeend.With all these deaths every year.Yosemite needs to have tour guides.Due to the fact that people do not listen to the what they are told and how dangerous this is.My prayers go out to both familes and prayers to my childs class.I hope these children do not have issues with what they saw.

We were also on the Falls trail Friday and came upon the accident. We do not need trail guides but to educate people and kids on trail safety.

I understand that.My childs teacher was a Park Ranger before he became a teacher.Have you read up on Yosemite?These “accident” are usually men/boys that think nothing can hurt them.156 yrs there have been over 900 deaths.Thats a lot deaths.I just think more needs to be done to prevent this from occuring so much.

I led a corporate hike group last Saturday after the deaths. Our fifth year in a row of Yosemite Fall Summit. We do safety training before we hike–and it is a talk they must hear me say BEFORE they ever get off the bus that day. I always warn to stay AWAY from the water edge especially near falls plus stay away from edges or cliffs in general. They might think it’s overkill but after last week a few wrote to say did you hear people actually DIED last week?!!! Ah…yes. It happens more than people think. I have seen the most stupid acts on the upper falls summit. People playing Frisbee across river near the mouth of the falls. Hanging off edges of rocks right at mouth of falls…even sitting in a rubber raft that is tied off with a lame ass rope near the mouth of falls!!!

Wow there are some really silly comments here. Yosemite gets around 4 million visitors per year. They engage in all kinds of activities from biking to hiking to rock climbing. The fact that there are ONLY 12 to 15 fatalities per year is remarkable.

Accidents happen. People die at Disneyland. I do not want tour guides mothering me as I hike up the falls (which I have done several times) nor do I want non-skid surfaces attached to rocks. If you are uncomfortable with the risks associated with traveling through nature, please stay home and watch TV.

Tour guides? Oh My God! It’s called “Wilderness” as in WILD for Pete’s sake! That’s why I go there. I want it to be WILD. If you make it another Six Flags theme park…count me out. Only a liberal could come up with that nanny-state solution.

Just hiked both Upper Yosemite Falls trail and Mist Trail. Wore rain gear, had good shoes, and went slowly. The problem is people who over estimate their skills and underestimate the dangers of nature. Accidents happen but a lot of the time it’s people being, well, stupid. Even a tour guide can’t prevent that..Not everyone is goofing around when something tragic occurs. But there are also a lot of people doing stupid things on trails. I’ve seen people on these trails wearing flip flops. Some guy was taking a nap at the edge of a sloping rock at the top of Nevada Falls. Respect nature, your life, and the lives of others on the trail. Sometimes we can’t prevent an accident. But we can take precautions. Number one safety tip – stay away from morons on trails.

This season I’ve hiked both the Mist Trail and Upper Yosemite Falls. I am amazed how careless and unprepared some hikers are. I’ve seen grown men carrying their children on their shoulders while hiking the dangerous sections of the Mist Trail. I’ve seen parents allow their young kids to run / jog up & down the often slippery, rocky Upper Yosemite Falls trail. I’ve seen hikers disobey “Trail Closed” signs at trail heads. These trails were closed due to unsafe conditions (ice, falling rock, wet / slippery rock, etc.). All these activities are an invitation for potentially deadly consequences. Be safe and prepared out there people. Plus don’t put rescuers in harms way due to your carelessness.

Jamie Stobie was our leader. My 23-year-old daughter Jamie was second in line, always watching out for me, who brought up the rear on our hike to the top of Laurel Falls il in Yosemite. The first thing I did when I arrived home was to check the number of fatalities on the Mist Trail. This is what I came up with. I am very proud of the two Jamies and of myself for making it up and down this treacherous path, nobly laid down by the Army Corps of Engineers. Our threesome remained in brave, good spirits until WE MADE IT.
DO NOT TAKE THE MIST TRAIL LIGHTLY. There are gale force winds up there and lots of hurricane-like water, narrow rock ledges and little girls in tiny dresses.. Combined with your lack of AIR/O2 and your lack of preparation it could be the last lovely vista your eyes might see. I am so thankful for this life giving experience.

I hope your son & everyone with him will be OK. It’s pretty traumatic seeing that. Take care!

We used to go to Yosemite every summer to camp out and boy the minute we got there(early am)it was up the trail to Yosemite falls to see who could get to the top first. The only thing that sorta frightened us was perhaps meeting a bear up there somewhere on the trail. God was with us, thats all I can say because it was pretty dangerous, sometimes we would pass photographers coming down and they would tell us to slow down because some can get mighty short of breath up there. No tourist guides for us healthy farm kids needed. Geez we all survived and so have OUR kids who do the same thing.

You can’t fix stupid

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i could not agree more we already have enough of the government trying to protect us from ourselves. if people werent so stupid you would not even need a guard rail or signs there.

I’ve been an avid Yosemite buff since the mid 1960′s. I *thought* I could name every waterfall (and its height) in the park, and yet I’ve never heard of Laurel Falls. I can’t find it in any of my guide/hiking books, nor can I find it on any of my maps, including my topo map. Can you please tell me where it’s located?

Kent Butler was my uncle and he was an extremely experianced hiker. I was there when he fell. A group of children approached us and we chose to step towards the outer edge of the trail to allow a group of children to pass by on the safer inside track. We were on one of the narrower, more dangerous sections of the Mist Trail.
Kent was a father and recognized the danger of the location where our two groups were to cross paths. He made the obvoius choice to yield our saftey to ensure the group of kids had the safer inside track, away from the ledge that morning.
According to some of your posted comments, maybe Kent should have “hiked smarter” and forced the children towards the outer edge that morning. Clearly he would still be alive if he had. But he was a better man than virtually all of you, who sit here and pass ignorant judgment on him from the saftey of your computers. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

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