Originally Posted By: Susan
Stay away from the edge of icy cliffs.

Stay away from roaring water in flood. A guy here died because he went right up to the edge of a raging torrent to look at it. The bank caved in and took him with it. I never heard that they even found his body.

Sue


That actually happened to me once. I was 14, on a boy scout trip (a planned 10 day excursion. This was day 1). Went to the edge of a river, on granite rock. Somehow slipped (was about a foot or 2 back). Down I went into Class V (heck, it might have been X!) rapids. Bounced off some rocks, smashed into one long enough to catch my breath, went off some small waterfalls (thought I broke my legs it hurt so bad)... somehow made it to the side (current? Luck? God?) and hauled my butt out of there.

It was a pretty quite hike the rest of the day.