Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Sheriff says family on California hike died of extreme heat.

LHO did it.

Self Portrait???

Did you have adequate water?

I helped drag a guy up the final part of a steep slope and into the bed of a truck after a hike down to a lake in SoCal for a swim. We were HS age and in good shape. If we hadn't got him in the truck, got water into him and a wet blanket on him, he likely would have died. Couldn't have been more than a couple of hours in those conditions for him to get heat illness.

So yes, YMMV depending on conditions and "luck"???

Mehhhh...
Californians...
Probably Liberal Socialist Democrats anyways.
Probably death by Bunga- Bunga.
Sad for the kid and the dog.

Dunno where I heard it, they were only 1.5 miles from their vehicle but that last 1.5 miles involved a steep climb.

about 5 years ago I went hiking in a gorge which was roughly a 7 mile loop in May. The temperature was around 83 degrees and my wife and I knocked out the hike in about 2 hours. It wasn't all the challenging.

Then in July we decided to do it again with a group of people and the temp ended up being 97. I wasn't sure I was going to make it out. at one point I was laying down on a flat rock in the open sun just trying to get enough energy to finish the last 1/4 mile. We had water, probably not enough, but the heat just zapped me, and since then I just avoid being outside in that kind of heat doing any activity.

That said, that was just me, my wife was fine, all the people I was with went ahead, and certainly there weren't any dogs dying that day.

If the heat did kill these people, they had to make some collective decision that did them in which is hard to believe. at some point you want to seek help and protect that child at all costs.

If either man or woman went down for the count any normal parent would do their best to save the child. They would not just sit down and let the kid die. Edk

Nonsense.

Roofers work their asses off in similar conditions and don’t miss a beat. Somethings fishy

Odds might be that both parents were in heat stress and neither was thinking right. Similar to hypothermia, the brain becomes secondary to the body keeping the basic life systems running.

No thats funny as hell. NOBODY can tell me about heat or dehydration related things. I am an EXPERT on the subject.

I can do you one better than that. I had one troop that had terminal Leukemia, he tried to kill himself or the cancer by going into the gym sauna until he was damn near cooked. Twice they found him near death in the sauna and not only did he survive, it cured the Leukemia.

I’ll stick to my belief that just like many other cases over hundreds of years, they don’t know or don’t want to admit what happened and they want it to go away.

Roofers are acclimated to the work also.

I worked in a place where the average daily high is over 100F from June through Sept. If I'm not mistaken, an average day in July is 108F and we had periods of 5+ days in a row over 120F. One becomes more used to it as summer progresses.

I came home from work one day, stayed inside for a couple of hours, then went out and mowed the lawn. Looked at the thermometer and it was 104F and I hardly felt it and commented to myself that I was glad it was finally cool enough to do some yard work.

My understanding, both those adults came from IT or some sort of indoor profession and more than likely rarely saw 107F temperatures.

People from up north die every year in AZ because they feel that "dry heat" is pretty pleasant and they hardly seem to sweat. Next thing you know, they're down for the count.

I get acclimated to the cold too. Most folks don't shovel snow in shorts and a 20 year old threadbare hoodie.

Interesting how some of you are comparing seasoned construction workers who work in the heat for a living to a pair of soft ac loving city folks that just moved one of the hottest parts of California and decided to go for an extended exhaustive hike in heat index conditions that kill some of the very same seasoned construction/ labor workers every year.

Ha, Covid.

Yep. They have water.

Some people die easy too.

There's that.

Breaks my heart to think, the baby probably died first. What happened after that nobody knows.

I call B.S.
All four died at the same place, same time... of heat stroke?
C'mon man... this is baloney.

280, they weren't found for two days. Once again, nobody has claimed they died at the same time or that they died within an hour or so. These were not acclimated roofers or construction people. They were a man, a woman, and an infant hiking in rough terrain when the temp shot up over 60 degrees.

I don't disparage posters who have heat experience. But it wasn't you out there. As a rough analogy, there have been people who survived chest shots with a .357 Magnum and others who have keeled over dead with one hit from a .25 ACP. You cannot make any assumptions about how susceptible other people are to something based on your own or somebody else's hardiness.

To those claiming BS, kindly show us actual evidence that they died of something other than hyperthermia. Not guesses, not theories. Evidence.

Have you been shown “actual evidence” that they all died from hyperthermia...?