2 killed in Arches National Park fall were from California
(Chris Detrick | Tribune file photo) Visitors take pictures and hike around Delicate Arch in Arches National Park Saturday, March 5, 2016.
Moab • Authorities say a man and woman who died last week while hiking in a popular area of Arches National Park were a couple from California.
Grand County Sheriff Lt. Kim Neal said Monday that the two who died Nov. 29 while hiking to Delicate Arch were 65-year-old Toshiaki Amimoto and 60-year-old Etoko Amimoto of Torrance, Calif.
He says their son, 30-year-old Ryo Amimoto, suffered serious injuries but survived.
Neal says it appears the three slipped while on a steep slope in a sandstone bowl near the Delicate Arch. It had been raining and snowing with temperatures near freezing.
Delicate Arch is a four-story sandstone arch perched on the rim of a deep red rock canyon in southern Utah. Thousands of people each year make the 1.5-mile hike to view it.
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