[pct-l] weather from the trail

[Eric Lee (GAMES)]

L-Rod wrote:
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I've come to the conclusion that there are a number of Darwin Award candidate wannabes out on the trail this year.
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Wow . . . when L-Rod gets POed at thrus, you *know* things are bad!  :-)

I completely agree about the stupidity of hiking without appropriate cold/wet weather gear regardless of where you are.  It's each individual's responsibility to ensure his or her own safety in any reasonably foreseeable circumstance.

Donna, if it were me who got that phone call, I may very well have just said, "Hmmm, well, good luck with that!"  Or maybe not - I'm pretty soft, actually.  But anyway, it seems to me that trail-angeling works well when the folks you're angeling for are self-sufficient and your help is unexpected, though appreciated.  The system kind of breaks down when those folks aren't self-sufficient and are *relying* on your help.  At some point you start having to draw lines and say, "Sorry, but that's not my problem, it's your problem," which sucks because it goes against the trail-angeling instinct, but that's the way it is, I guess.

Anyway, I've already done enough ranting on that kind of subject this spring so I'll leave it there.  :-)

Eric