AT and Tumbledown Rescues in Maine
These types of rescues makes me wish people would get charged for the cost of the rescue. unprepared for the time of year.
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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White
Ditto. Or get to warm up in the clink.
From reading the remarks Maines not like New Hampshire in the regards of Rescues. To bad their not.
My love for life is quit simple .i get uo in the moring and then i go to bed at night. What I do inbween is to occupy my time. Cary Grant
Maine does not get the volume of hikers that NH does. The WMNF is practically a city park for the greater Boston area and southern NH. So fewer rescues in Maine.
The woods are bare down low on south slopes and along roads up in the whites but head into the woods and up in elevation and there is still snowpack especially on the north slopes and areas with softwoods. Folks just head out unprepared and if they run into unexpected conditions they fool themselves that it will get better instead of worse. The snow pack is also "rotting" If its below freezing at night it will reform a crust but give it warm day and around 11 AM it will start breaking down and by 2PM folks will be postholing and on some days they will posthole with snow shoes.
Just for the record.... not everyone in Maine is that stupid.
The Tumbledown rescue group were from New Jersey
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