That's cool as long as you have figured out how to file an effective do-not-search-or-rescue order with all the agencies potentially involved and you have funded a prepaid body recovery service. What is it all those signs say? "If you pack it in have it packed out" 0r something like that.
That's all well and good but everything we do comes with some risk, and loss of life is a risk every single hiker takes on any trail. Anyone naïve enough to think it couldn't happen to them are usually the first to go. While ascending the switchbacks, I was aware a rock (or heart attack, or a slip) could come out of nowhere and I'm finished, flukes happen anywhere.
Nobody goes up hoping/expecting to expire but knowing the dangers and there is a risk is something that gives me peace because I'm out doing what I absolutely love.
I think all those trendy hiking mantras don't quite apply to the dead, as I could not only be
not packing it out, I'm also leaving a trace and quite possibly
unintentionally feeding a bear
. I suppose such a triple-violation would
really trigger the vocal mob of internet Karens
that loves to complain!
