[Mr Rogers]

Have you ever tried to carry a 100 lb dog? I have. And no, you won’t make it down a mountain without special equipment and HELP.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

And no, you won’t make it down a mountain without special equipment and HELP.

Evidently, some brave, noble souls out there can't make it back up to look without "special help," either.

[RegulatorCountry]

The dog was pretty much immobile, otherwise “bailing” wouldn't have entered the discussion. The “younger” companion was 19 years old. A summer snowstorm at altitude like that is no walk in the park, but it's not as if you'd have to carry the dog down the entire mountainside to reach safety. Just get to the treeline, most likely. I understand there's a road up to at least that point. Where was he parked?

I've carried a 120 lb dog, writhing and yowling, for a quarter mile at a jog. Pure adrenaline though, I saw a boar and didn't want to see him gored, he was still a “puppy” being a Lab, despite being two years old and quite the big boy. My back was sore for days, but I'd do it again.

Anyone who'd take their dog into harms way and abandon it is a poor excuse for a human being, imho. There were other hikers. There was help if he cared to ask. He didn't, just left her there, abandoned and cold, to die. Then, after the danger had passed, for days, he didn't go to retrieve her.

He deserves to be charged with animal cruelty because what he did (and didn't do) was cruel to the point of depraved indifference.