Criminal idiot parboiled at YNP

We swim in creeks in the Sierra -- we test the current first. But if we are wrong, and the current is too strong, we get swept away and drown.

We climb fairly steep granite domes, like Lembert Dome in Yosemite. The traction is good, but there is always a chance that your foot will slip and you will get hurt.

Some risks are not capable of being managed.

Quite right we've been up Lembert, great view of Touloumne. And we've sat on the edge of thousand foot cliffs. But we don't behave stupidly when doing it. In my younger days I was a technical rock climber in Yosemite and other places, my son is a climber right now. If you take the time to learn and manage risks then you minimize them.



But morons don't and I have no sympathy for them. For example I was told by a ranger that Yosemite loses a number of fools every year when they go for a swim in a mountain stream up around Glacier point only to find themselves washed over the top of a 600 foot waterfall. And they lost more climbing cliffs using cloths line as their rope (that's something you don't see anymore}. Plus those who went cross country skiing only to find that you can ski 15 miles but when you break a ski you cannot walk back 15 miles in the deep snow.