20-year-old college student dies after falling from Yosemite's Half Dome hike

That hike has a cable all the way to the top that everyone is supposed to hang on to. Guess she got too confident.

The actual trail with hand cables.

Fall? Why didn’t she just Rohloff?

[quote[ "There's no way 10 minutes before, when she was up there smiling ear to ear, that I thought I only had 10 minutes left with her. It was a tragedy."

Dude, that's a smirk. God smited her.

There was a sudden thunderstorm and it was slippery R1. Did you not read the article?

Her dad is hot.

There were cables to hold onto did you not see that picture R5?

I have been there, you are instructed to hold onto them at all time. ESPECIALLY when it's raining and slippery.

I like hiking but that's a "no, thanks" for me (at r2).

One less voter for Trump.

Ivana full investigation.

Apparently they had heard thunder in the distance when they were about to start their descent and were expecting to make it down before it any rain began, but the clouds probably moved swiftly. I probably would have done the same thing in that situation. Such a tragic way to go. My condolences to the family.

I did that hike when I was a healthy 33-year-old, and I still consider it one of the physically hardest things I've ever done. Two days later at work, I wouldn't even go "down" a flight of stairs, because I was so beat up. The part with the cables is at the very end, after interminable hiking. And because people are going both up and down the cables, you sometimes have to stray from fully engaging the cables so that everyone can pass.

This is a bad idea. Being scalded by the scalding hot geyser is also a terrible idea.

Geronimo!!!

^^Triple no now with that added info about having to step aside for people who are on their way up or down, r12

It feels like that could be managed better, but what do I know?

The Hunky- ish dad said she was FEARLESS

I would say more like

F0OLISH

She looked like a fine girl so sad. Shit can happen to anyone count your blessings.

R12- 33 years old- What year was that 1977?

R12, thank you so much for putting quotation marks around the word down.

Is this the girl from that creepy dwarf family?

Thunderstorm in Yosemite in late June? It can happen I guess but isn't it usually dry at this time? And often fire are blazing around, but a thunderstorm right now, weird.

I meant July obviously

A ranger warned them that a storm was brewing but they didn't listen and climbed anyway.

Passing thunderstorms happen intermittently in elevated locations, even in the hot summer.

This is why I don't leave my couch.

I think she was distraught that the Pac-12 is no more and ASU is off to the Big 12. It wasn't an accident.

Very sad.

The father Johnathan Rohloff is insanely hot and sad, too.

Fir those of you who've never been to Yosemite, add it to your bucket list It is undeniably gorgeous, it smells like a pine tree, and you'll see a zillion stars at night.