Originally Posted by smokepole
Originally Posted by Stickfight
Originally Posted by HuntnShoot
superior judgement.

If checking the weather before going on a hike in the White Mountains strikes you as something that could "happen" to anyone, I feel sorry for you.

Read the excerpt from the story I posted, she may have read the weather report but decided to go anyway, to reach her goal of all 48 peaks by the time she was 20.

Those kinds of goals push people to take a lot of risks.
If she read the weather but decided to go anyway wearing what she wore, then she earned a Darwin.

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

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