[at-l] Unprepared hikers required rescue...

[gaudet@mediaone.net (Arthur Gaudet)]

It occurs to me that Lafayette claims lives more frequently than 
others of the Whites (excepting Washington). Not counting Waterman 
who was a suicide, there was Brian Kane in Sept. 1999, died of 
hypothermia just at the time of Hurricane Floyd. He was section 
hiking the AT.
In the early 80's two MIT students disappeared on Lafayette and their 
bodies were never found. NH authorities seem to notice that many 
rescues/deaths are college age kids from Cambridge, MA and 
surrounding areas. Students join the college outing club and then 
tear off for the hills (Harvard, MIT, Yale, Dartmouth). Some are 
smarter than others.
Last weekend also had a rescue on Wildcat Mtn. - a couple more Mass. 
students not prepared to spend the night in the woods.
-- 
Arthur D. Gaudet         	"Is walking down called hiking, too?"
(RockDancer)  	                 -heard at the top of Mt Washington, NH