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“Also not enough water is also a good thing because it completely dries it out. “Too much water is a good thing when it comes to quicksand,” Fagergren says.

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Fegergren says he has gone on group hikes where the leading hikers have walked over a patch of quicksand with no problem, but the dozen or so hikers that followed loosened the sand so much that those in the back of the group felt their boots sink into the earth. The more quicksand is agitated, the stickier it becomes. If you’re hiking in sandy, clay-filled areas that are perennially wet or near bodies of water, be aware of the ground you’re walking on. (Hear more about it o n this episode of Backpacker’s Out Alive podcast.) (Photo: wwing via Getty Images) Hours later, park rangers made it to Osmun and pulled him out. She had initially slid into quicksand, and as Osmun pulled her out, his leg slipped in and became cemented in place.

Snow dumped on him as he waited for his girlfriend to hike out of the canyon and find help. In February 2019, Ryan Osmun spent 10 hours waist-deep in quicksand at Zion National Park. However, incidents do happen, especially when quicksand is paired with bad weather. “Exposed edges or rattlesnakes or hypothermia are the things that actually can kill you.”

“It’s something to be aware of when you’re hiking, but maybe not something that should be outright feared,” he says. Zion National Park Chief Ranger Daniel Fagergren says that Hollywood unnecessarily sensationalizes the danger of being trapped in sucking sand on a hike. In real life however, quicksand isn’t the death trap it’s made out to be.

If you watch cartoons, quicksand is like, the third biggest thing you have to worry about in adult life, behind real sticks of dynamite and giant anvils falling on you from the sky.”

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