Хайкеры бывают разные

[Alesanda]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national ... 50621.html

[Gatchinskiy]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national ... 50621.html

Скоро начнуть штрафовать за 'не по форме' одежду, как веслосипедистов за отсутствие шлема ...

"There's a few guys out there wearing dress shoes and jeans and stuff that looks like they're kind of just up for a walk, or something like that ..."

[Vovchik]

B.C. rescuers swamped with calls to find the foolhardy
Last Updated Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:00:55 EDT
CBC News
Mountain rescue volunteers in North Vancouver are blaming a lack of common sense and appropriate gear for a boom in requests to find distressed hikers.

Over the weekend, the North Shore Rescue team pulled a man off the peak of Crown Mountain, just north of Grouse Mountain, in the group's 39th rescue so far this year, and the prime season is still a month away.



Tim Jones, a senior search manager with North Shore Rescue, fears the volunteers won't be able to keep up with the pressure of being called out so often, since they all have full-time jobs.

Jones attributes the problems to "a complete lack of utter common sense."

He also points to the ease with which uninformed tourists can get to the wilderness in less than an hour on their hunt for the Great Canadian Adventure.

"There's a few guys out there wearing dress shoes and jeans and stuff that looks like they're kind of just up for a walk, or something like that," said Scott Stefani, who regularly hikes the Grouse Grind Trail, a mountainous route that climbs about 800 metres over its 2.9 kilometres.

"You kind of shake your head and wonder what they're doing."

Poor equipment can be a matter of life and death. David Koch, an American businessman, was wearing sandals when he fell to his death three weeks ago during a walk on Grouse Mountain.


FROM JUNE 7, 2005: Body of missing hiker found in B.C.

But it seems that death has brought little awareness to other would-be hikers, so the rescues continue.

In just the past week, locals speak of three trail users who avoided injury only by luck:


A man who climbed from Grouse Mountain to Crown Mountain, wearing running shoes. He said he wanted a better view of the sunset, but forgot about the lack of light that normally follows a sunset.
A skateboarder who called for help when he found he couldn't roll down the mountain at night.
A father who was found coming up the Grind Trail with his infant son in a backpack, also at night.

One walker who wasn't wearing hiking boots dismissed questions about the safety of his gear from a CBC camera crew this week, saying, "It was dry, so it was fine."

Another hiker wearing slip-on clogs was asked if he knew what he was in for on the rugged trail that lay ahead of him.

"No," he replied, before adding: "I'm in for a good challenge and I'm up for a good challenge."

[Vlad_Van]

Зто все от головы - одни в одиночку поднимаются на Эверест, а другие теряются на Граусе...

[Alesanda]

Совсем что-то не то в Ванкувере делается:

Body found in Lynn Canyon
June 26, 2005 - 4:05 am
By: Michael McLaughlin
Mounties say the body pulled from Lynn Canyon is the 38 year old owner of a backpack found in the area Saturday. North Shore Rescue says a Park Ranger saw the body at the bottom of a natural pool after yesterday morning's hunt had ended. George Zilahi with North Shore Rescue says a chopper and divers were brought in that afternoon from Vancouver Island. A rescue team lowered three divers into the water who then searched the pool and recovered what appeared to be a male's body. No one had been reported missing but a backpack was discovered earlier on Saturday. Searchers do not know how the body got into the pool or how long it had been there.

[S.G.]

Совсем что-то не то в Ванкувере делается:
Body found in Lynn Canyon

Думаю, все были в Lynn Canyon park и видели, как возле второго моста, со скальных обрывов возле и прямо с моста народ прыгает в небольшие бассейны у водопадов. Особо там впечатляет прыжок, который они сами называют suicide. Это прыжок с разбега по диагональной траектории на 15м вниз, когда нужно миновать скалы и попасть в совсем небольшой сток под водопадом.

Прыжки же в 30-feet pool (или как он там называется, вверх по течению реки) вообще за прыжки не считаются. Хотя и там разбиться можно легко.

Не удивительно, что там гибнут люди. Народ там просто отчаянный.

[Alesanda]

Я не видела, как прыгают. Я видела памятники с надписями "утонул такой-то", "утонул сякой-то".
Что касатется этого последнего человека, то не сказало, хайкер он, пловец или еще кто. Кстати, погода не располагает к купанию.

[Yury]

Я не видела, как прыгают. Я видела памятники с надписями "утонул такой-то", "утонул сякой-то".
Что касатется этого последнего человека, то не сказало, хайкер он, пловец или еще кто. Кстати, погода не располагает к купанию.

не далее как вчера две местных жительницы вовсю купались в озере Чиливак (:shock: оно вчера совсем не располагало к купанию), в то время как мы боролись с холодом горячим чаем и шашлыками. У них, похоже, средства были другие