[Leica] Yosemite Mist Trail

[rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)]

One of the scariest things I've seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm8ImFWx1ac

Shame they cropped off the top of the tree at the beginning on Taft Point...


On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > "Bob Adler" <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote
> >
> >> Just don't go swimming...
> >>
> >> http://www.latimes.com/local/**lanow/la-me-ln-man-swept-over-**
> >> yosemite-waterfall-20130602,0,**1124451.story<
> http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-man-swept-over-yosemite-waterfall-20130602,0,1124451.story
> >
> >>
> >>
> > I met a ranger in a wet suit at the Merced once and asked him what he was
> doing.  "Looking for a body."  They have to search the river until they
> find the body -- or most of it.  They also have to take large bags to the
> bottom of Half Dome and other cliff areas to pick up the pieces.  It sort
> of took away my desire to be a ranger there.
>
> One of the absolute dumbest things I ever saw was a testosterone-poisoned
> teenager hanging from one of the I beams under the bridge at the top of
> Nevada falls.  He was proving his machismo to his buddies by going hand
> over hand along the I beam, under the bridge and over the top of the falls.
> I couldn't watch.
>
> About the biggest risk I've taken at the top of that falls is to put my
> camera on the end of an extended tripod, set the self timer, and hold the
> camera as far as possible over the edge of the falls to get a shot looking
> straight down.  It makes a cool picture (even if no person is going over
> the falls at the time).  ;-)
>
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>
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Bob Adler