Be Careful Out There!

[Wes Mantooth]

Somewhat related (no body shaming intended)

https://twitter.com/x/status/2080407750643794253

Talk about two wildly different experiences and individuals. The self-jousted hiker is an ER nurse, so his training likely kept him alive; he is obviously pretty even keeled to look down at a trekking pole impaled in his body and say "merely a flesh wound" and hike the F out. Hats off.

The other example, and I will get in trouble for this, was self-induced. When you are that size, you are not in good shape, especially not enough to head out on a hot day on a hike with elevation, terrain challenges, etc. And to basically fall apart at two miles? Really? That seems like someone who has no idea of their personal limits. If you get winded going up one flight of stairs, don't tackle hikes like that. Look at the resources siphoned off for that "rescue".

Rant over. Keep those baskets on your trekking poles, and stay in shape.

 

[TOGIE]

I've never understood not pushing a button for fear of costs.

SAR extraction is free in basically every state as far as I am aware. Charges only begin once you get put in ambulances, air or ground. Air extraction is rarely an ambulance, usually National Guard or law enforcement, so... free. You usually get put in an ambulance after extraction, if needed. And if it's needed, then who cares about the cost.

Generally speaking, if something happens, push the button.

 

[Straight Arrow]

I've never understood not pushing a button for fear of costs.

SAR extraction is free in basically every state as far as I am aware. Charges only begin once you get put in ambulances, air or ground. Air extraction is rarely an ambulance, usually National Guard or law enforcement, so... free. You usually get put in an ambulance after extraction, if needed. And if it's needed, then who cares about the cost.

Generally speaking, if something happens, push the button.

Yes! And if you are lucky as I was ... Two Bear Air out of the Flathead may extract your broken body at no cost to you.

 

[noharleyyet]

I bet the gawkers drove him nuts on the hike out .
I hiked three miles with a broken Tibua , it swelled up to the size of a cantaloupe.
People would get in my way trying to get a better look at it and one woman tried to touch it .