What you say is absolutely true but Chaz isn't wrong either. Sometimes everything (or enough) does go wrong. Few are ever truely fully prepared. No matter how conservative and careful we are we put ourselves out there at risk all the time. This is life. We all push on at times when we would have been better off to hang it up. Even if it is to get out of the situation we are in. It might be driving through a down pour, on snow and ice covered roads in a blizzard, or other aspects and areas of our lives. These can all go very badly. Daily life can go very badly.

Your message is of course very true. Common sense and due caution need to enter into everything we do. Understanding the situation is imporatnt. Their actions or inactions may have been inappropriate. Even so it can all go wrong or we can get trapped out unexpectedly in conditions we would not have ventured.

I sense some of what has been said in this thread is really a psychological defense and justificiiton. They were foolish so bad things happened to them. That couldn't happen to me b/c I have so much more comment sense, skill, and wouldn't be foolish. This is a very common phenomena in such situations.



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• emergency stuff in trunk, hdm, Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:36:08
  • Something to add from c|net, ChuckD , Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:22:15
  • can you make a cell antenna from a car panel?, steve, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 20:04:57
  • There's also common sense, Noel, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 06:28:30
    • Re: There's also common sense, OKSaabs, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:34:02
    • It's nice someone finally said the obvious, Drew in Houston, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:41:16
      • Drew and Noel. You are wrong and wrong spirited..., Chaz, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 19:21:56
        • Re: Drew and Noel. You are wrong and wrong spirited..., Noel, Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:18:31
          • Re: Drew and Noel. You are wrong and wrong spirited..., ursaw, Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:12:40 <-- Viewing This Message
            • Thanks, ursaw. Agree. I just have this thing, Noel, Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:18:26
        • Re: Drew and Noel. You are wrong and wrong spirited..., Drew in Houston, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 22:03:35
      • Thanks. I'm wondering how many others will agree. n/m, Noel, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:11:30
        • Re: Thanks. I'm wondering how many others will agree. n, TomMit, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 13:19:29
          • Cell phone dependence, Noel, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 15:11:34
            • Re: Cell phones in the backcountry, kenS , Sat, 9 Dec 2006 15:26:49
              • Re: Cell phones in the backcountry, AdamB , Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:39:40
                • not necessarily, steve, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 17:35:49
                  • But the First Rule of Holes is..., Noel, Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:02:33
                    • Re: But the First Rule of Holes is..., TomMit, Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:50:43
  • Interesting rule of thumb in a CNN story, Oscar, Fri, 8 Dec 2006 22:54:02
    • Boy, it's amazing, Oscar, Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:05:03
  • freeze dried food.. MRE's.., -993-, Fri, 8 Dec 2006 20:22:29
    • TP, jp, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 08:03:08
  • Basics, EricG, Fri, 8 Dec 2006 18:17:24
  • Interesting that nobody mentions OnStar, Caarma , Fri, 8 Dec 2006 18:16:19
    • Since GM charges for it ....., Trev, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 08:33:35
    • 911 mentality, JMJ in NC, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 06:12:49
    • OnStar works on Verizon's land-based cellular system, Bill Homer , Fri, 8 Dec 2006 21:07:32
      • Re: OnStar works on Verizon's land-based cellular syste, Caarma , Fri, 8 Dec 2006 21:36:03
        • OnStar's answer (CYA Memo), Bill Homer , Sat, 9 Dec 2006 08:27:07
          • OnStar and GPS Coverage question, UpstateNY Bill, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:07:29
            • Re: OnStar and GPS Coverage question, AdamB , Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:51:59
              • Thanks for the explanation, wondered how it works n/m, UpstateNY Bill, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:39:17
              • Onstar or another GPS, Trev, Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:39:43
    • With GPS nav they wouldn't have needed it (nm), AdamB , Fri, 8 Dec 2006 20:23:50
    • OnStar not available in Alaska. You'd think . . ., Mike in Anchorage, Fri, 8 Dec 2006 18:38:34
  • I have been thinking about the same stuff... (long)..., Chaz, Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:57:32
  • Re: emergency stuff in trunk, Noel, Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:55:34
    • I make sure I'm ready for a hike, SeeVTSaab, Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:17:31

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