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This should be a reminder to the suburban family units that go on strenuous or even straight up dangerous hikes, carefree and letting their children and animals roam everywhere.
I’ve seen tourists kids just casually fooling around on a ridge hike with a sheer 500+ foot drop on either side of a like meter wide ridge with no barriers. Dogs gladly running into the brush which leads to said 500 foot drop.
This hiker chose to free solo an almost vertical wall and unfortunately paid the price. Mountains are dangerous. People regularly climb and fall off Morro rock and that’s literally just a rock, not even a mountain.
This is incorrect. One because it's not "almost vertical" (it's a 3rd class scramble) and two because she was not technically free soloing - she wasn't rock climbing and the protection in this case was the cables. I acknowledge these distinctions may not matter to you but they matter when talking about why these accidents happen.
Aside from the "free-solo"ing of a dangerous but established NP trail with hand rails, I agree with the sentiment that casual hikers do not take the perils seriously. Goes double for parents.
This is one of the most heartbreaking stories I've heard in a long time.