Maybe, just maybe.... Re: [at-l] Parenting, Holmes, and measuring life

[Slyatpct at aol.com (Slyatpct@aol.com)]

In a message dated 1/22/2004 11:29:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
kellyswhitman@hotmail.com writes:

> I'm a non-hiker?  That's interesting you brought that up about a rescue.  
> Someone else emailed offlist saying it was a terrible thing to put rescuers 
> in danger "unnecessarily," and that person has been strangely silent about 
> what this fellow did.
> 

I suppose everytime some goes hiking they're potentially endangering the 
rescuer unnecessarily.  As far as I can tell that's part of the job, such as a 
soldier, policeman or fireman.  Had the hiker in question been ill-prepared 
without a stove, sleeping bag and tent and with only a daypack and/or a cellphone, 
I could see your gripe.

Even the best equipt hiker can suffer ill-fortune when mother nature takes a 
turn for the worse or they're not careful.  Into Cold Air.....

Sly