Death in Buckskin Gulch

[tanya]

Was there ever one? I thought I read once about a young girl who could not hold onto a rope and she died?

[Jaxx]

That sounds like the story I have heard about Black Hole.

http://www.climb-utah.com/CM/blackhole1.htm

[Iceaxe]

At one time I started to write a book on all known Utah Flash Flood death's so I have varying amounts of information scatter on my hard drive. But here is the short version.... Since 1950 (when death by Flash Flood became a specific statistic) Kane County has had only two officially reported Flash Flood death's, neither was in Buckskin/Paria.

September 17, 1961
At Wahweap Creek near Glen Canyon City a 9-year-old girl drowned in a flash flood.

September 5, 1998
A flash flood in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area's Ice Cream Canyon swept away and drowned a 10-year-old girl. She was standing on the side of the canyon observing the flash flood in the canyon below when the side gave way and she fell in.

[tanya]

Thanks Shane



What story am I think of where a young girl could not hold onto a rope and fell and died. I think the family and friends were in a slot canyon and everyone else made it to a safe place but her. It was posted in one of the groups in the last couple of years?

[Jaxx]

I seriously think it is Black Hole. Did you see my previous post?

[tanya]

It might be. I will look

[trackrunner]

I seriously think it is Black Hole. Did you see my previous post?

Dido I think I remember a similar story of a teenager death in the Black Hole.

[tanya]

That sounds like the story I have heard about Black Hole.

http://www.climb-utah.com/CM/blackhole1.htm

That's the one I was thinking of, just a different canyon. Thanks.