It's an article talking about how more and more people are going up into hills without proper equipment (map, compass, etc), getting stuck and calling emergency rescue services instead of unsticking themselves. Certainly on my last Kinder walk there was a group up by the 633 trig point that looked like foreign students, dressed in normal street clothes, with no map that I could see, all drinking cans of Stella as they walked!
It's an article talking about how more and more people are going up into hills without proper equipment (map, compass, etc), getting stuck and calling emergency rescue services instead of unsticking themselves. Certainly on my last Kinder walk there was a group up by the 633 trig point that looked like foreign students, dressed in normal street clothes, with no map that I could see, all drinking cans of Stella as they walked!
-- Chris
Missed that one, nicely balanced article, states that there are good points too and this hasn't been cut down to an ending sentence in the name of journalism. They've let the MR bloke get on with giving his advice and not interfered.
The list of injuries over one weekend is rather misleading in such an article though? I was expecting a catalogue of errors in there, such as "woman in high heels rescued from crib goch", the rescues all sounded reasonable from what i could see.
Missed that one, nicely balanced article, states that there are good points too and this hasn't been cut down to an ending sentence in the name of journalism. They've let the MR bloke get on with giving his advice and not interfered.
Agreed though it does reinforce the usual -
"Rather than spending a wet night out or using some proper navigation and finding their own way down safely, they just press the button and call us out,"
"People are depending on them as the first line of defence. They will go out with no map and no compass and no whistle - but they have a mobile phone."
It is also pointed out that MRT members are volunteers. They may start to wonder about the wisdom of having time off work to haul people off the hills who probably shouldn't be there.
It's an article talking about how more and more people are going up into hills without proper equipment (map, compass, etc), getting stuck and calling emergency rescue services instead of unsticking themselves. Certainly on my last Kinder walk there was a group up by the 633 trig point that looked like foreign students, dressed in normal street clothes, with no map that I could see, all drinking cans of Stella as they walked!
simple answer - charge those that have been deemed to have been inappropriately rescued the cost for their rescue... and watch the number of unnecessary calls plummet dramatically...
simple answer - charge those that have been deemed to have been inappropriately rescued the cost for their rescue... and watch the number of unnecessary calls plummet dramatically...
Complicated answer.
And likely the only people to benefit from a system like that would be the lawyers.
