Fire Puck:
1400 degrees F. You'd better want fire, because that's what you will get.
"She had also tried to make fires using the matches and lighters she kept in her backpack."
The article says she was "no beginner", but what else can you call someone who has a lighter and still can't get a fire lit in Appalachia in July?
Have you tried modern matches, lol? They’re produced with health and safety standards - they don’t light.
there’s an old saying, “you can have 18 yrs of experience, or one yr. of experience 18 times”
She may have been hiking over some years, but she obviously never progressed beyond the most miniscule knowledge. Indeed, she should have learned what would have saved her life in this case before she ever went out on a hike alone.
Sorry if anyone doesn’t like criticism of the dead, but I’ve been on mountain rescues and have many friends who devote a lot of their lives to rescuing stupid people making stupid choices. There is reasonable risk (we can always debate what risks are reasonable, of course), but then there is downright blind reckless ignorant risk.
“The article says she was “no beginner”, but what else can you call someone who has a lighter and still can’t get a fire lit in Appalachia in July?”
Most folks here in the city can’t start a fire without a gallon of lighter fluid
Watch the History Channel survival series “Alone”. You will be surprised at how inept “survival experts” can be.
Fire Puck:
1400 degrees F. You'd better want fire, because that's what you will get.