and so here we are: You are considered a slug on society if you don't take electronics TO WALK YOUR DOG.
you wonder if it is required to use a GPS to get from your house to your garage?
Ken, I can't figure out your point, other than you want to call out people as "anti-adventure" for using electronics. I hope you don't teach that at your A-16 Whitney class. I doubt they would agree with you on that, and it's really bad advice for some people, as in this story.
This lady got lost for days in the forest on an 11-mile hike and happened to have dogs with her, that's not the same as "walking your dog." The 11-mile forest hike is a far cry from "walking to your garage." People should have more respect for nature than to equate those things.
In your next post, you swing to the other extreme and compare her 11-mile hike in a forest to climbing Nanga Parbat where "
exposure is the most important ingredient." Climbers need to go back 100,000 yrs with no possibility of outside help.
If people want to play caveman, fine, just be sure nobody knows that you're even out there, so SAR doesn't come looking for your buckskin with those fancy radios, GPS, and helicopters that Neanderthal didn't have. Maybe sign a "do not rescue" directive, like a medical directive not to resuscitate.
Edited more toward third person generic.
