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Phoenix board votes to restrict popular hiking trails during extreme heat
KTAR ^ | Oct 29, 2021

Posted on 10/29/2021 1:10:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 10/29/2021 1:10:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Should the government tell us when we cna hike?


2 posted on 10/29/2021 1:11:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

“Should the government tell us when we cna hike?”

Someone needs to when idiots need government services to save them from themselves.


3 posted on 10/29/2021 1:12:57 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: nickcarraway

Too hot for crossing our border?


4 posted on 10/29/2021 1:13:19 PM PDT by blackdog (Jab Dodger. )
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To: nickcarraway

Mad dogs and Englishmen...


5 posted on 10/29/2021 1:18:25 PM PDT by Bobalu (Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
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To: nickcarraway
Should the government tell us when we cna hike?

If the government is the one who is risking their firefighters and wasting resources because people are making stupid choices-- like hiking up a mountain in 121 degree weather. It's akin to governments closing the beach when there are rip-tides or e -coli/red- tide conditions. These same stupid people have an expectation that government emergency crews will be sent to save them from their stupidity.

6 posted on 10/29/2021 1:19:20 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: TexasGator

Concur. Perhaps a better policy would be to fully charge for such rescue incidents. That would stop a lot of these people who far, far overestimate their abilities and who completely fail to use their critical thinking skills. Baring some unusual circumstance, I, as a taxpayer, should not have to pay for someone’s foolishness that also puts others in jeopardy.


7 posted on 10/29/2021 1:19:46 PM PDT by Obadiah (Truth is treason in an empire of lies.)
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Yeah, there are people that stupid. For the same reason you have to board up abandoned buildings.

It spares the taxpayers high rescue costs. I read about one Jaybird who got caught on a mountainside trying to rescue a drone worth about $50. Rescue costs were about $50,000 with MedEvac and the like.

Yeah, even the life of a dumb@$$ is worth $50,000, so you've gotta do it.

8 posted on 10/29/2021 1:26:53 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: nickcarraway

Damn, our government sure keeps their eyes on the ball.

I can’t remember a day where a fellow citizen didn’t express their concern over the anarchy of hiking. It’s about time...


9 posted on 10/29/2021 1:31:24 PM PDT by EEGator
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“Yeah, there are people that stupid. For the same reason you have to board up abandoned buildings.”

Florida has many bike trails, many with fences. They put fences up to keep bikers from going off trail and falling into knee deep water but no fence to keep riders from going off trail and being hit by a car.

Then we have those bike lanes right in the middle of traffic!


10 posted on 10/29/2021 1:32:54 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Obadiah
Perhaps a better policy would be to fully charge for such rescue incidents.

They already bill people for things like this, especially since it involes ambulance or helicopter transport. As the article says, what precipitated this new policy was that firefighters were being sickened and taken out of service as a result of these unnecessary rescues. That endangers not just the firefighters, but the rest of the community as well.

11 posted on 10/29/2021 1:33:26 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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“Fearing the worst, the distraught dog lover dialed 911,”

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4008063/posts#1


12 posted on 10/29/2021 1:37:31 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s Squaw Peak.


13 posted on 10/29/2021 1:38:10 PM PDT by SACK UP
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To: nickcarraway

In other words, 365 days a year. What problem are they trying to solve?


14 posted on 10/29/2021 1:38:47 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: fidelis

Always swim perpendicular to the rip tides.


15 posted on 10/29/2021 1:40:48 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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To: Reno89519

June thru August


16 posted on 10/29/2021 1:41:16 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: fidelis

I don’t mind charging them for their rescues. But I live in southern AZ and am well adapted to heat. I can hike safely in 115 deg heat. Don’t do it often and I won’t lose sleep over it being banned, but I regularly RUN in 105 degree heat.


17 posted on 10/29/2021 1:44:12 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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It happens all the time in Washington State. Dumb libs go hiking in the mountains... Then expect the government to rescue their dumbass.


18 posted on 10/29/2021 1:46:12 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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To: Mr Rogers
I don’t mind charging them for their rescues. But I live in southern AZ and am well adapted to heat. I can hike safely in 115 deg heat. Don’t do it often and I won’t lose sleep over it being banned, but I regularly RUN in 105 degree heat.

I live here too. Have for 26 years. You and I know better, but the yay-hoos who get themselves stuck up on Camelback in mid-June apparently don't.

19 posted on 10/29/2021 1:49:01 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: Mr Rogers

Wow. You are a machine. Perhaps you should be one of those rescue guys.😄


20 posted on 10/29/2021 1:49:39 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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