[Caipirabob]

There is at least one rescue a week on Camelback mountain in Phoenix in the summer months. People will go in flip-flips, without water, separate from their groups, go off trail, get in all sorts of unnecessary trouble.

Some of the reports since late May: Before these reports started, the temps began to get above 100 degrees with 20% humidity.

What are they thinking?

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/hikers-rescued-camelback-mountain/75-6a3c9be7-1880-4b94-b9e6-35894327b3b0

https://patch.com/arizona/phoenix/rescue-camelback-mountain-closures-place-phoenix-fire-dept

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2022/05/22/six-people-rescued-off-phoenix-hiking-trails-week/9875323002/

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/hiker-rescued-after-300-pound-boulder-crushes-his-leg-during-mountain-trek-camelback-arizona-phoenix

[bondjamesbond]

When I was a kid, my brothers and sisters hiked up to the glaciers on top of Mt. Rainier. It was a beautiful hike on a beautiful day.

Decades later, I drove up to the glacier to the visitor’s center on a beautiful summer afternoon, and watched as the weather turned cold with freezing rain over about 15 minutes.

If we had been up there with our t-shirts and shorts, we would never have made it down. Boy, were we stooopid!

(And that’s not the stupidest thing we did on that trip!)