This notification found on a New Hampshire trail might seem like a no-brainer but, when it comes to hiking, there's no end to the creative snafu's people commit. At my park alone, we have had to conduct search and rescue on someone who took, not water, but a fifth of vodka on a three-mile outing. She was found, no surprise, dehydrated and confused but, surprise, missing her shoes. On another occasion, a person was stranded on the side of a cliff overnight because he'd dropped his keys off a 200-foot bluff and opted to take the shortest route to retrieve them: straight down. Then there's the time two girls started out at dusk, only to get lost shortly after sunset. Mistaking a creek bed for the trail, they were discovered on the Mississippi's banks--shoeless. So, what do we learn from this? That's correct. Over 66 percent of novice hikers have their footwear confiscated by forest gremlins! |
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