Yellowstone National Park Death

Mama Mia · ‎03-10-2010

A 23 year old tourist from Portland, Oregon left the boardwalk and fell into an acidic, boiling spring, killing him instantly. He and his sister ignored the warning signs and walked out to a geyser basin dotted with boiling springs. He slipped on some gravel and fell in. Nothing left of him to recover.

Tourists are ignoring the signs more and more, also getting right up to bison and being gored. It is not a zoo up there, it is a beautiful wild place. Don't go if you don't want to obey these warnings.

We live close to the park and haven't been up this year, hopef

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ully soon before it gets crazier.

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"Cats are like potato chips, you can never have just one".

hoosieroriginal · ‎03-04-2012

I really can't have sympathy for people who ignore rules and do their own thing - rules are rules. Probably trying to take a selfie.

StylishLady · ‎03-11-2010

Sad how some folks have no common sense. When I was out there I saw people get out of their cars to take pictures of buffalo. Wild animals are, well, wild. People need to be careful.

Mama Mia · ‎03-10-2010

I can;t either, and it is getting worse up there. We live close, 65 miles, to the park, and hear all the details here. The Rangers are giving citations but it still doesn't seem to help.

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"Cats are like potato chips, you can never have just one".

ValuSkr · ‎03-15-2014

How awful, but so foolish of the man and his sister. I've wondered how the Park Service knows the boardwalks around the boiling hot springs and geysers are safe to walk on, i.e. that they haven't been undermined by the hot, acidic water.

Puzzle Piece · ‎06-29-2010

Oh well, another dunce bites the dust.

Never Forget the Native American Indian Holocaust

Mama Mia · ‎03-10-2010

@ValuSkr wrote:
How awful, but so foolish of the man and his sister. I've wondered how the Park Service knows the boardwalks around the boiling hot springs and geysers are safe to walk on, i.e. that they haven't been undermined by the hot, acidic water.

Agree! I don't know, but they have geologists studying the Park all the time. What bothers me is the fact some Rangers had to go way out among the boiling springs to see if there was anything of his body left to recover, there wasn't, just his flip flops. But they had to risk their lives, knowing they were on a thin crust.

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"Cats are like potato chips, you can never have just one".

MimiLouise · ‎06-22-2010

May have to close the geyser down. It seems when humans enter the picture the wild and beautiful are destroyed. ( Lions, Gorillas, etc....) I'm sure there is more . Another sad situation to hear about

Mama Mia · ‎03-10-2010

@TMimiLouise wrote:
May have to close the geyser down. It seems when humans enter the picture the wild and beautiful are destroyed. ( Lions, Gorillas, etc....) I'm sure there is more . Another sad situation to hear about

They really can't close them down. You probably haven't been there. YNP is full of geyers, hot springs all over, huge waterfalls, all of it can't be closed down because it is all wild, geysers are in the backcountry where there are no boardwalks at all, and tourists go all over the place. Your are required to get permits for some of it, but again, everyone doesn't pay attention and thinks it doesn't pertain to them.

They had 4.1 million visitors in 2015.

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"Cats are like potato chips, you can never have just one".

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

I think the idiots who climb really big mountains should have to post a BIG bond to do it, since we all have to pay for it when people have to go resuce their dumb behinds.