Off The Wall: Death in Yosemite

[thatguy]

TG - Do you remember Lisa's friend Rich? Deadhead acid casualty guy? I remember she said that his grandfather fell into a hot spring in Yellowstone and died.

Wow, yes, i do remember Rich. National parks... they'll kill you. I remember at Lassen, there's a pool called "Bumpas' Hell" that some early visitor stepped in and lost his leg.

Oh look, here's what the wikipedia says:

It is named after Kendall Vanhook Bumpass, a cowboy and early settler who worked in the Lassen Peak area in the 1860s. Bumpass discovered the geothermal feature and was named on a mining claim for the area. In 1865 the editor of the Red Bluff Independent newspaper took a trip with Bumpass to see the locale. During this trip Bumpass broke through a thin crust above a scalding hot mudpot; his leg was badly scalded and eventually had to be amputated.[2] The area was named in his honor.

--tg