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Yosemite hiker killed by falling branch was ‘a really careful person,’ her father says
But in a freak accident July 19 walking just a few steps ahead of the others on a mostly paved old stagecoach road, Angela was struck and killed by a falling tree limb. Her family believes the heavy branch — the width of a tire rim — likely killed her instantly.
In Yosemite, Falling Tree Branches Kill a Young Hiker in ‘Freak Accident’
The trails of Tuolumne Grove, a popular site in Yosemite National Park, wind through forests of pine and giant sequoias, the largest trees on earth. On July 19, after hiking about a mile into the grove, Angela Lin, 29, and her friends heard a snapping sound above them.
Bay Area woman, 29, dies in Yosemite National Park after being struck by falling tree branch
Back in August 2015, two high school students were asleep in a tent in the Upper Pines Campground when an oak limb fell, killing them both. And in 2012, a concessions worker was killed when a tree fell on his tent cabin during a windstorm.
Angela Lin, a 29-year-old Google software engineer, died after she was hit on the head by a falling tree branch at Yosemite ...
The fatal incident occurred while Angela Lin was admiring large sequoias along a trail in the park with her boyfriend and two ...
After Lin's death, Tuolumne Grove—the area where she and her group had been hiking—was closed to the public for nearly a week ...
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