A man hiking in the Grand Canyon has died after being found unresponsive over the weekend, marking the third death in the national park within the last three weeks.
A 50-year-old unresponsive male hiker was found on the Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon about 100 feet from the trail head on Sunday, according to the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center.
Bystanders began CPR while emergency personnel responded to the scene, but efforts to resuscitate the hiker were unsuccessful.
Fuuuuck. Is that normal temp for the region this time of year, or is it worse because of climate change? I know it’s in the Southwest, so it’s gonna be hot, but is 120 degrees in the shade normal?
Very normal in the canyon. On the rim it will be 90’s easily in July. But down in the canyon it’s way hotter. It’s recommended to hike only during morning and evening during the summer.
I’ve never been, but I always imagined it was cooler down in the canyon. TIL.
It’s hot as fuck down there because the canyon walls radiate the heat back out and there isn’t much airflow. Which makes it nice to go in the fall. But it’s hell in the summer.
I’ve been a few times. One of my friends was dumb enough to try hiking all the way down and up last August. Told them not to. They didn’t get back out until something like 3am because they had to stop during peak daylight hours.
I went on a Grand Canyon rafting trip for 6 days this time last year. And yes it regularly gets up to those temps daily. It was an amazing trip, but you had to be on top of hydration as your life literally depended on it. I had a 32oz bottle and my husband had a half gallon bottle and we refilled them constantly throughout the day. Honestly most of the day was quite pleasant assuming you wore appropriate clothing and made sure to get wet in the river regularly. But in the evening, it was so hot from the rocks radiating heat that any breeze just felt like an oven. That was the worst part of the day by far, but that’s also when we would make camp and have fun swimming while waiting for the sun to go down. 12/10 experience if you can keep up with drinking water.
Holy shit. That seems like Death Valley temps.
“Walk down a trail, add a little sauce, baby you got a
stewBBQ going.”Yes, its pretty normal. People have been dying there for a long time.