No one should ever hike in a wilderness area alone.
My first thought was, "Never go alone. Never go alone. Never go alone!", but...had he had a hiking buddy in this instance, wouldn't the chances that they BOTH got buried be pretty high?
In this case, probably two people would have died in the avalanche. Safe spaces sometimes only exist in a campus fantasy world.
Why not? It’s part of a free life. Probably saferr than living in NYC.
Voof, that’s really gonna put a crimp in my plans next winter.
I’m planning to camp at Robber’s Roost and ride the Glenn Springs Loop on my singlespeed mountain bike. Again.
All that stuff is in a place called the Big Bend. Brewster County, TX. Very remote, very hostile, very quiet at night and the most beautiful skies I ever saw except up north of Gothic, CO, one night. On another lone roam.
“No one should ever hike in a wilderness area alone.”
John Muir who the wilderness is named after wouldn’t have done that./ The only person he risks by going alone is himself. A second person is mostly going to be a second victim, or a witness to the heart attack, death fall, deadly avalanche, etc.
A second person might help locate a body sooner. But the second person degrades the precise reason some people want to be there alone in the first place. Our pussified society recoils in fear at someone who wants to hike alone, but its a classic human activity.