“Should the government tell us when we cna hike?”
Someone needs to when idiots need government services to save them from themselves.
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.
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.