06-11-2019, 02:30 PM
Amazing how people, primarily tourists and recent mainland arrivals, regularly injure themselves in some of our wild places that lack serious danger, comparatively.
Oahu's mountains, filled with razor back ridges and sheer, unstable slopes, are highly prone to fatal falls.
Mauna Kea's slopes are not that steep. And they are not obscured by vegetation--a major factor in Oahu and Maui cliff falls.
Any day now we'll have a tourist drown in 3 feet of water. Time for another tax on tourists: Wildland use.
Oahu's mountains, filled with razor back ridges and sheer, unstable slopes, are highly prone to fatal falls.
Mauna Kea's slopes are not that steep. And they are not obscured by vegetation--a major factor in Oahu and Maui cliff falls.
Any day now we'll have a tourist drown in 3 feet of water. Time for another tax on tourists: Wildland use.