Via: Flickr Title: Stupid dad By: GinnyRED57
Originally uploaded: 15 Jun ’07, 4.10pm CDT PST
Sign says do not climb on rocks
This guy put himself and his two small sons in danger of death or serious injury twice in ten minutes; we drove up Boulder Canyon and decided to stop at Boulder Falls. When we got down the little access trail to the bottom of the falls, this guy was down at water’s edge, off trail, goofing around with his kids on the rocks. There’s a lot of water in the creek, and if one of them had fallen in, they would have gotten pretty badly knocked around on all the underwater boulders, and maybe risked drowning. Then after we took our photos and left, they’d gotten ahead of us and were then climbing up the rocks at the edge of CO119, with traffic rushing by. The sign to the lower left clearly states “Do not leave trail. Do not climb on rocks. Private property except for access trail.” The guy thought nothing of letting his kids clamber high above the road and was making no attempt to get them down – in fact, he was encouraging them.
“What? You mean that applies to me? Aw, go on. That’s for *stupid* people.”
When I told my sister about it later in the weekend, she got this funny look on her face. A good friend of hers lost her little daughter many years ago during spring runoff. It was a sad, sad story.
That scenario was all too easy to visualize when I first saw the guy and his kids, teetering around on the big rocks at water’s edge leaning over the stream. And then to see them again… well, I’m a stickler for remaining on the designated trail, too.