1 boy dead, another missing in Yosemite river

[shanti]

Source: Sacramento Bee

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- Yosemite National Park officials say one boy is dead and another is missing after they were swept away in the Merced River.

Park officials said Thursday the two were part of a family visiting from Southern California that had been hiking near the Vernal Fall Footbridge. Group members were cooling off in the river Wednesday when a current carried the boys away.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/16/4731793/1-boy-dead-another-missing-in.html#storylink=cpy

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So very sad to hear of yet more people who misread the power of the merced river....

[FirstLight]

1. wow...sad

I don't know the Merced, but most mtn rivers are pretty scary in early summer...is this river a bigger one that has whitewater year round...?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. How sad...

The river's not all that big, but it's fast and very cold.

[Mz Pip]

4. The river is going downhill

at a fairly steep rate at that spot. I've hiked that trail and it seems like every year a few people are lost because they go off trail.
Very sad.

[handmade34]

3. my heart breaks...

I was there last year the day after the three went over the falls... this is a shot closer to the footbridge (w/rangers searching for the bodies)

[Marrah_G]

5. This is so sad

I can't imagine what the family is going through