Originally Posted By: Rod
Well the question is still out there. Do we all carry doses of Dex in case we come across cases of HAPE or HACE? Should they issue a wag bag and a dose of Dex?

Harvey or Ken -- Would the average doctor even Rx Dex at any dosage for their asymptomatic Pt so they can carry it on the trail with them "just in case", and esp. if they knew it might be used for someone else rather than for the Pt requesting it?

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)