Camp host dies after falling over Sierra waterfall

(08-12) 19:38 PDT MADERA COUNTY -- A Bay Area man directing a group of Sierra vacationers to a swimming hole slipped on mossy rocks and fell over a 100-foot waterfall to his death Saturday.

The Madera County Sheriff's Department identified the man on Monday as Daniel Stephen Greenlaw, 37, of Richmond.

Greenlaw, a campground host at the nearby Farm Meadow Campground in the Sierra National Forest, was showing a group of six campers how to slide down some rocks to get to a swimming hole on West Chiquito Creek, said Erica Stuart, sheriff's department spokeswoman. He slid too far, stood up, lost his footing and slipped into rushing water, which carried him over Camino Falls.

"The water is extremely cold and moving quickly, and those rocks are as slick as you can imagine," Stuart said.

A Madera County search and rescue team located Greenlaw's body on the rocks beneath the falls Sunday and removed it with the aid of a California Highway Patrol helicopter.