Squatters, illegal BASE jumpers invade Yosemite amid federal shutdown

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3. I'm reminded of the BASE jumper who died at El Cap during a protest jump.

Back in the fall of 1999. The protest was because a BASE jumper had drowned in the Merced River that summer while fleeing from park rangers (who were trying to arrest/cite him because that's their job/the rules).

It was a planned protest, there were five activist jumpers and they had arranged with the park rangers that they would surrender upon landing and accept their citations and have their gear confiscated. The first three jumpers went fine. The fourth one, not. Her husband was filming the event too. Very sad, and traumatic to onlookers.

And there are many others, of course. About a decade ago there was a fellow with one of those flying/gliding suits who died.