"a good number of the people who died here , died frhom nothing more than bad luck . a rock'lll brreak free and tumble down a slope and it'll fall on someone's head . a thunderstorm 'lll blow up out of sight of the canyon floor and the first lighting strike of the afternoon will hit a guy who's doing everything else right . and there 've always been flash floods . don't forget . the grand canyon exists partly because of a billion years of flash floods . flash floods have gotten plenty of folks .
"but mostly the book tells story after story about people forgetting common sense , not preparing for the weather , ignoring warnings , overestimating themselves , or underestimating the canyon or the river . sometimes all of the above in the same afternoon . rangers see it on very shift ."
sam had been a cop long enough to know about all the ways that arrogance and hubris can be fatal. " but it isn't an accident that you think happened to jaana ? is it ?"
"read that book . when the canyon kills people or river kills people , stupidity is usually an accomplice . that's what most loklikely happened to jaana ."
"if i arrested people based on who was most likely to commmit a crime . i'd be arresting a lot of innocent people . you seem reluctant to share your appraisal ,
" sam told ramona .
she said ," okay , this is opinion .'ve read the file , that's it . you undersatnd ? i inheritedd a file , and i'm curious about solving the puzle . got it ?"
Ssam told ranger ramona he understood .
he told me that they both knew the caveats were were crap . ramona had a theory .
"what do you think ? someday i'll come in to work and hiker or somew river guide will call in and tell us they found a jawbone or a femur forty miles downstream . it'll be hers . jaana's . that 'll be the end of the story .it'll turn out the river got her in ne of the ways the river gets pewople . how did she end up the river ? probably never know .
"but mostly the book tells story after story about people forgetting common sense , not preparing for the weather , ignoring warnings , overestimating themselves , or underestimating the canyon or the river . sometimes all of the above in the same afternoon . rangers see it on very shift ."
sam had been a cop long enough to know about all the ways that arrogance and hubris can be fatal. " but it isn't an accident that you think happened to jaana ? is it ?"
"read that book . when the canyon kills people or river kills people , stupidity is usually an accomplice . that's what most loklikely happened to jaana ."
"if i arrested people based on who was most likely to commmit a crime . i'd be arresting a lot of innocent people . you seem reluctant to share your appraisal ,
" sam told ramona .
she said ," okay , this is opinion .'ve read the file , that's it . you undersatnd ? i inheritedd a file , and i'm curious about solving the puzle . got it ?"
Ssam told ranger ramona he understood .
he told me that they both knew the caveats were were crap . ramona had a theory .
"what do you think ? someday i'll come in to work and hiker or somew river guide will call in and tell us they found a jawbone or a femur forty miles downstream . it'll be hers . jaana's . that 'll be the end of the story .it'll turn out the river got her in ne of the ways the river gets pewople . how did she end up the river ? probably never know .
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