{"id":6383,"date":"2016-06-07T11:28:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/07\/know-your-limits\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:28:36","slug":"know-your-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/07\/know-your-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cautionary tale: Geraldine Largay's Wrong Turn: Death on the Appalachian Trail<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Never Hike Alone<\/em> warning found in most hiking books is not just a piece of CYA boilerplate required by publishers.  It is good advice.  I have violated it numerous times in unforgiving country in quest of my inner Thoreauvian, but then I am extremely cautious. But I don't go quite as far as Henry David's  harsh, "I have no walks to throw away on company."  It's a balancing act: the wilderness explorer seeks solitude but he also hopes to return to hike again.  A competent partner will raise the probability of that.<\/span><\/p>\n

The following disclaimer is my favorite, from local author, Ted Tenny, Goldfield Mountain Hikes<\/strong>, p.  4:<\/p>\n

The risks of desert hiking include, but are not limited to: heatstroke, heat exhaustion, heat prostration, heat cramps, sunburn, dehydration, flash floods, drowning, freezing, hypothermia, getting lost, getting stranded after dark, falling, tripping, being stung, clawed or bitten by venomous or non-venomous creatures, being scratched or stuck by thorny plants, being struck by lightning, falling rocks, natural or artificial objects falling from the sky, or a comet colliding with the Earth.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Still up for a hike?<\/span><\/p>\n

If you lose the trail, or have the least doubt that you are still on trail, stop<\/em>.  Do not plunge on.  Retrace your steps to where the trail was clear and then proceed. Thus spoke the Sage of the Superstitions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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