OT: Candidates for Darwin award.
ELF
to activate it after whatever misfortune ended their climb on Dec. 12,
the searchers below might have been able to pinpoint their location. The
two are presumed buried beneath several feet of snow and ice.
It's the second time in three years that a search and rescue operation
on the 11,239-foot mountain has failed to turn up climbers who went up
the mountain without signaling devices and got into deadly trouble.
So, politicians, rescue crews, mountaineers and others are debating once
again whether to require such climbers to carry locator beacons.
The recent rescue mission has raised the question, "When are you going
to stop the carnage on Mount Hood?" said Jim Bernard, a commissioner in
Clackamas County on the south side of the mountain.
"People are dying for no reason," said Bernard, a longtime climber who
said he had been up Mount Hood several times. "We need to find a way to
protect them and we need to find a way to protect the people's resources."
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Hmm.
The locater beacons rent for all of $5.
People climbing a high mountain that in the best of times can make
its own (bad) weather, neglect/refuse to spend the $5.
It's called evolution in action, as cold as that may sound.
You want to save "the people's resources" then post warnings that if
you climb the mountain without a locater beacon, and require rescuing --
you will be billed for the cost of the rescue. Be sure and apprise them
of the cost.
Then bill any survivors that need rescuing and didn't rent a beacon.
If simple common sense and survival instinct doesn't work, economic
self interest just might.
elf
Suzanne F
> Had Nolan and Vietti rented a $5 locator beacon and had they been able
> to activate it after whatever misfortune ended their climb on Dec. 12,
> the searchers below might have been able to pinpoint their location. The
> two are presumed buried beneath several feet of snow and ice.
>
> It's the second time in three years that a search and rescue operation
> on the 11,239-foot mountain has failed to turn up climbers who went up
> the mountain without signaling devices and got into deadly trouble.
>
> So, politicians, rescue crews, mountaineers and others are debating once
> again whether to require such climbers to carry locator beacons.
>
> The recent rescue mission has raised the question, "When are you going
> to stop the carnage on Mount Hood?" said Jim Bernard, a commissioner in
> Clackamas County on the south side of the mountain.
>
> "People are dying for no reason," said Bernard, a longtime climber who
> said he had been up Mount Hood several times. "We need to find a way to
>
> Hmm.
>
> The locater beacons rent for all of $5.
>
> People climbing a high mountain that in the best of times can make
> its own (bad) weather, neglect/refuse to spend the $5.
>
> It's called evolution in action, as cold as that may sound.
>
> You want to save "the people's resources" then post warnings that if
> you climb the mountain without a locater beacon, and require rescuing --
> you will be billed for the cost of the rescue. Be sure and apprise them
> of the cost.
>
> Then bill any survivors that need rescuing and didn't rent a beacon.
>
> If simple common sense and survival instinct doesn't work, economic
> self interest just might.
>
> elf
I believe you are already billed for the rescue.
Suzanne
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