[kearnyirish2]

“I had one bottle of water left, a near thing. All I kept saying is that “we are all getting out of here.” I’ll remember that hike every time we prep for one now.”

I take my boys hiking in the mountains along the NY/NJ border; not as harsh a climate but you can be a few miles from help. When it gets too hot such hikes aren’t practical due to the amount of water we’d have to carry. On one hike a police sergeant told me to bring an “extra cell phone” due to rattlesnakes in the area (I guess if one couldn’t get reception another might?).

[Caipirabob]

We actually gave out water to people going back up who had none that day. One couple was a mother and child who the father had said "I'll meet you down there" and took off. She gave up and had turned around to march back up 4 miles. They were having a rough time already at the one mile mark when we gave them the water. We didn't see or pass them again on the trail.

I would have hated to be the father when he climbed back out of the valley!