It is not unusual for the same type of incidents to occur here in the Idaho mountains. Every year, people go out without the proper clothes and gear and either suffer or pay very dearly for it.

"Be Prepared," as the Boy Scouts say.

L.W.


"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)