Glen Onoko falls trail to be closed May 1

What?

Crazy stuff here!!

Why are such rude comments allowed to be kept on this page?

Wow!

Just read another terrible comment...

This is absurd!!

absolutely nuts!!

Who comes up with this stuff...

Are these people for real??

What a bunch of uneducated people..

Best comment from mechanical art:

"They should change the PAGC motto to "protecting you from your fate" and change the logo to a parent wrapping their kid with bubble wrap and pillows. Next hunting season the trees are off limits, ground hunting only. No mountains either, too high."

Who from the Times News monitors this comment section/blog? Do you think having anyone putting expletives on this site, especially the F variety, is appropriate and good news?

I really don't know the solution to this problem. That's kinda strange as I usually see a solution to things quickly. I do have a story though. I remember (it must be over 40 years ago) when I was like 10 (shit closer to 50 years ago) hiking up there to the Glen from Jim Thorpe as that was pretty much the only way to get there then with a few other kids and my two younger brothers. We all brought sleeping bags and intended to hike up the falls and sleep up there somewhere. I don't remember which falls it was but it had a big flat rock space on like the Eastern or Northeastern side of the stream. And immediately off that rock was a good distance down to where the water from the falls hit the boulders below. We camped there for the night and I slept about 4 or 5 feet from that sheer drop. Didn't worry me as I knew I wasn't going to roll some 5 feet in a sleeping bag. We had a big old fire there on that rock, and I'm pretty sure after leaving the Lehigh river we didn't see anyone else that day or the next. At some point we made it to the top and headed back down. I remember rolling boulders at at least one of my younger brothers, probably as we hiked up the steep trail and they lagged behind. So, what if one of those boulders would have hurt one of my brothers? What could we have done? There was only one thing we could have done, and that would have been to help, drag or carry him back to JT. Yeah, I guess we could have been considered dumb-asses, and I think we knew it, but we made it out alive. Now, there's a big parking lot at the bottom with tons of visitors there. So now all anyone would have to do is get to the bottom of the falls and there would be vehicles to get them to a hospital. And, it is generally easier coming down than going up. How are people needing extraction or medical care up there on the trail? I just don't understand what the problem is unless they actually fell off one of the falls, and then I doubt they'd really be in need of immediate medical help; more like get the body down the hill. That should be really easy, and probably not too costly either. Posting prominent signage stating if you enter this area you do so at your own risk is not enough? That should curtail a lot of the dumb-asses that kinda know they are dumb-asses. Then you're only left with the 10 or 15% of dumb-asses that don't know they are dumb-asses. And, given an actual emergency, bill them for it in it's entirety. It's no excuse to say that recovering funds is costly and time consuming because hospitals are the experts in this. It also seems that people around here love to volunteer, so I imagine if there were to become a dedicated Glen Onoko volunteer rescue squad it would surely be filled with people that enjoy that kind of stuff. Doesn't sound like that would be too expensive. And any of those 10 to 15% who do require rescue and a hospital visit should have their total bills publicized, maybe posted under the enter at your own risk signs. All in all there shouldn't be that many dumb-asses needing expensive help.