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canyon, Eaton, hikers, Hiking, los angeles, lost, missing, mountains, San Gabriel, sheriffs, waterfall
Less than a month after a hiker lost their life in Eaton Canyon, a group of hikers has gone missing in the same area. The group set out at 8am Thursday morning and were expected back 8 hours later. The group was reported missing by one of the hikers’ parents Friday morning.
Eaton Canyon is located in the San Gabriel Mountains. The search for the missing hikers is being lead by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Eaton Canyon is an extremely popular hiking destination for Southern California natives, but has had more than of it’s faor share of rescues and deaths over the past few years.
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I hope they find these hikers and hope they are OK but I fear they are in deep trouble, probably trying to hike to the 2nd waterfall and completely unprepared. I can’t begin to remember all the times I’ve seen young hikers trotting up a trail with their little pint bottle of water, shorts, tank top, sandals and little or nothing else, like a puppy prancing toward the highway assuming nothing will go wrong. Sure, we all HOPE nothing will go wrong but there’s no guarantee so being prepared can be the difference between survival and death or at least major discomfort. I wonder how many people have to be killed, injured or rescued before the rest of the population respects the dangers of the mountains and hiking off-trail enough to be safe when they go out there?? Let’s all hope for a happy ending to this particular story and hope it’s also the last one in the ‘series’!!