Countryside Management Association News

On November 27th, a 50-year-old woman who was hiking by herself on the Angel’s Landing trail in Zion National Park fell a thousand feet to her death, evidently due to loss of footing. Angel’s Landing is a 1200-foot-high rock formation that rises up from Zion Canyon and is reached by crossing a narrow ridge. There are support chains along the way, but the path is classed as hazardous. It was the second fatal fall from Angel’s Landing this year. (Roger Cole CMA International Adviser was at Zion on the same day meeting with Jock Whitworth the park superintendent).
Then, on November 28th, a man visiting the South Rim of Grand Canyon with his family evidently lost his footing at a spot on the South Rim and fell several hundred feet to his death. A slip is suspected.