09-19-2021, 08:13 AM
The Queen was picking up my books from the library and the librarian said the Queen should take Off the Wall for me as well since I had checked out pretty much every other Yosemite book they had.
The real subtitle of this book should be People are Dumb.
The book chronicles every, and I mean every death, that has ever occurred in Yosemite. The book is horrific. It's non-stop death. I almost had to stop reading because I was familiar with pretty much every location where the deaths occurred and it was giving me the heeby-jeebies. The first chapter was all about people who died in the waterfalls with the majority coming in the Vernal Fall and Nevada Trails. It made me not want to go to those locations ever again because i could now picture all the tragedies in that location.
But I have persevered because it is really fascinating. I am learning a lot about the park. They've mentioned trails and places I hadn't heard of and now want to go. For instance there used to be a trail called the Ledge Trail that started behind Curry Village and went straight up to Glacier Point. The trail was too dangerous to remain open so the park abandoned it. People still try and climb it.
In the chapter on Aircrashes, the story is told of a drug plane that crashed in Lower Merced Pass Lake. It was in a the middle of winter with a storm front moving in. The Park Service figured the inclement weather would keep the 6000 lbs of marijuana safe. People immediately went up to loot the plane. The Park Service put guards back on the plane but not before they lost a lot of weed. The weed from the plane was referred to as Lodestar Lightning because the plane that crashed was a Boeing Lodestar.
I'm about halfway through the book. But I wanted to get some thoughts out before it all mushes in my mind.
The real subtitle of this book should be People are Dumb.
The book chronicles every, and I mean every death, that has ever occurred in Yosemite. The book is horrific. It's non-stop death. I almost had to stop reading because I was familiar with pretty much every location where the deaths occurred and it was giving me the heeby-jeebies. The first chapter was all about people who died in the waterfalls with the majority coming in the Vernal Fall and Nevada Trails. It made me not want to go to those locations ever again because i could now picture all the tragedies in that location.
But I have persevered because it is really fascinating. I am learning a lot about the park. They've mentioned trails and places I hadn't heard of and now want to go. For instance there used to be a trail called the Ledge Trail that started behind Curry Village and went straight up to Glacier Point. The trail was too dangerous to remain open so the park abandoned it. People still try and climb it.
In the chapter on Aircrashes, the story is told of a drug plane that crashed in Lower Merced Pass Lake. It was in a the middle of winter with a storm front moving in. The Park Service figured the inclement weather would keep the 6000 lbs of marijuana safe. People immediately went up to loot the plane. The Park Service put guards back on the plane but not before they lost a lot of weed. The weed from the plane was referred to as Lodestar Lightning because the plane that crashed was a Boeing Lodestar.
I'm about halfway through the book. But I wanted to get some thoughts out before it all mushes in my mind.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
