[pct-l] Another missing hiker found

[Terry]

Eric, I understand your point of view and your understanding of the situation.
 
I also know from over three decades of first hand experience in the field, just how completely ignorant some people are and the involved cost of not just tax dollars, but the well being of the many others, trying to rescue them.  

At some point and at some time the SAR teams, which are mostly manned  by County Sheriff volunteer personnel will become so stretched thin by the ongoing operational cost that it will become virtually  impossible to outfit these teams in the future as they  stand today. 
 
Terry




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On Oct 8, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Eric Lee <saintgimp at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Terry wrote:
>> 
> The Federal Government is shut down, many states are close to shutting down
> for being bankrupt and we have to deal with a few people who have no clue as
> to what they are getting into, and costing all of us hundreds of thousands
> of dollars and risking the lives of the SAR personnel, just to rescue their
> butt. 
>> 
> 
> 
> It is a fact of the universe that given any sufficiently large group of
> people, there are *no* set of rules that are perfectly fair and immune to
> abuse.  It's just not possible.  Once you accept that fact, then the only
> remaining question is what kind of abuses do you prefer to live with.
> 
> Personally, in this case, I'd much rather deal with the abuses of some
> people getting free rescues due to their own carelessness rather than the
> abuses of having government personnel stationed at all trailheads telling me
> whether or not I may proceed based on some bureaucrat's abstract idea of
> acceptable risk.  To me, the first scenario is the lesser of the two evils.
> You may disagree, and that's ok.  :-)
> 
> Eric
>