Trail Sherpa Rants

Trail Sherpa is passionate about the outdoors and occasionally rants about certain topics. Read our recent rants on the outdoors.

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Rescue Just Ahead

I have been reading lots of stories of hikes gone wrong lately.  I covered the topic of rescues in Yosemite in a post a few weeks ago. And this week another story of rescue hit the press. He went off trail and found himself stuck with no cell phone and without supplies.  He suffered from [...]

$2,500,000 to rescue hikers? I think we can do better.

WTF stamp

This is just one of those WTF moments for me. Inexperienced hikers disregard the common sense and push on in bad weather only to find themselves in danger. Their reaction? Call for a rescue. Seems like 2011 had more rescues than previous years.