I feel sorry for.....

TheRogue · 12-12-2006, 07:50 AM

.....the families of these people, their friends, and the searchers risking their lives looking for them. I certainly DO NOT feel sorry for the hikers themselves.

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/storie...rs.eac70d.html

TR

freespool · 12-12-2006, 08:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheRogue

.....the families of these people, their friends, and the searchers risking their lives looking for them. I certainly DO NOT feel sorry for the hikers themselves.

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/storie...rs.eac70d.html

TR

TR, I feel the same way, maybe they just need to lock the gate in the winter, so unwitting hikers don't wonder up the mountain?

salmon hugger

Radke · 12-12-2006, 08:07 AM

I believe you can rent a beacon of some sort that can send out a signal identifying your position when hiking on Mt. Hood. I would like to think that if you saved a few bucks by not renting this thing, you would be fully responsible for any and all cost of the search. I agree that people are taking too many chances and therefore endangering others.

fishboys · 12-12-2006, 08:08 AM

I feel for the hikers, I to have made choices in life that could have cost me my life, but I somehow alway came out of it alive. Now that I have kids and am older and fatter I dont get into those situations. I do wonder why people dont take a locater device with them, it just seems so easy?

ampersat · 12-12-2006, 08:41 AM

Perhaps we should just have a 24hr a day curfew so that folks don't go out into the big bad world.

freespool · 12-12-2006, 08:47 AM

But if they do go out and do something stupid, we'll just call them heros.

salmon hugger

craigcw · 12-12-2006, 08:50 AM

I feel for the hikers. These were experienced hikers (Raineer and McKinley) and the knew what kind of conditions to expect. Accidents happen, things happen even to the best. All we can do sometimes is prepare as best we can and then hope mother nature doesn't beat us anyway.

El-Kabong · 12-12-2006, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by ampersat

Perhaps we should just have a 24hr a day curfew so that folks don't go out into the big bad world.

I like this approach, but we will need to take it further. most accidents occur in the home. so in addition to the curfew we will need personal bathroom safety monitors. power tools? not any more. cars - are you kidding, they kill lots and lots of people. bathtubs - thing of the past, cheese, candy, cigs, motorcycles, knives, BOATS, fishing hooks I can go on.

from the reports I have seen these guys are serious climbers, well prepared and aware of the dangers they were facing (I'll bet they are way more aware of the potential dangers then the arm-chair "experts" recommending whats best for everyone else here).

Will they make it? I hope so, will others get injured? I hope not. No one is being forced to help them. The ones out trying to help are doing so because that is what they want to do. God Bless them for it.

If these guys make it, I can't wait to hear the details, if they don't, my sympathy for the families, but I will believe that they died doing what they loved. (trust me - no one tries the North face of Hood in December who does not live, breath and sleep climbing)

EK

pnwcoast · 12-12-2006, 09:38 AM

Jennie@ifish · 12-12-2006, 10:22 AM

I am shocked to be a part of a community that can be so cold to their fellow man.

I am upset that we need to close this kind of subject. I, as the owner of ifish am not happy about it, but I choose to do it, as I refuse to own a website that displays such cold feelings towards a family in trouble.

Would you say these things to their faces? To their families? Well, when they search, years later, this will probably still come up on a google search.

Why do we question these things? I just don't understand. I wish I did.

Will Lars go on for three days about their stupidity?

I'm so sorry, but I just don't have the nerve to do that to the families that are left to suffer the loss.

Why do we need to call them anything? To judge their actions? They did what they did and they are paying for it.

How can you not feel sorry for the hikers themselves? Have you not ever made a mistake? A terrible one? I sure have.

I just don't understand why people feel the need to point fingers, when someone else is suffering. It is just beyond my scope of understanding.

I want to live in a peaceful world, and ifish is part of that world of mine. I don't want uglies, here. It is my paradise, it is my family, it is my peace.

There are other kinds of websites that I'm sure that you'll find will be more of what you are looking for, if you want to criticise their actions.

Some will find these sites, and leave ifish and I have to just understand that's meant to be, for some.

Ifish is what is meant to be, for me and those who want ifish for what it is.

I just can't stomach criticising people who are suffering.

I'm sorry.