Internal memo orders staff not to reveal deaths in national parks

[the_liberal_grandpa]

9. I spend several weeks a year in Yosemite Valley and

most years I see search and rescue helicopters going back and forth to Half Dome or the back country rescuing people who are injured.

I have seen bodies being flown by helicopter or walked down the trail on gurney by search and rescue.

Every year someone goes over Vernal or Nevada falls or off of Taft Point all while doing something stupid like getting that great social media video.

Yosemite never relases information on visitor deaths.

I have heard of victims families begging them to release information to try to save lives of others who may try to do the same stupid things their loved ones did but they won't

There used to be a sign near the Vernal Falls footbridge that had the photo of a young boy who drowned when he was playing in the water and got swept away. They took that down.

It amazes me that officials tell visitors that Yosemite Valley is not Disneyland and once you step into the wildernes your are in danger but when something tragic happens they cover it up. Leaving others to think they are safe standing on the ledge of a waterfall or a rock to get a photo, swimming in a raging river or leaning into the river just above a waterfall to fill their water bottles.

Believe me, there are dozens of document ways you can die in a national park.
Here is a bone chilling book of you want to read about some of them

https://www.amazon.com/Off-Wall-Yosemite-Michael-Ghiglieri/dp/0970097360