What the hell is wrong with some people?
If you hiked from GA to NH then your concern and kinship with others should be there, and this to me showed some horrifically self serving ‘who cares’ attitude toward a person who could have been lost, injured, dead, anything and not one of these people…two of which started the slack pack with her, never mentioned to anyone that she was missing.
And to be honest, Ive seen the WORST bunch of hikers EVER this year…
(Sure, they’re some good ones too, but jesus…)
Packrat and I got packed and headed out from different directions at 1 a.m.
I didn’t get back till 3 the next afternoon as I hiked the Benton, Long Pond, Mud pond and other trails that lead away from the summit and back searching.
She decided to stay on the mountain with no bag, no light, nothing and she was fine in the morning, but it bothers me that the hikers were watching TV or in their tents and not a single person made an effort to find this women, with the exception of one person mentioning it to Gary early in the afternoon, (And even then, no on mentioned she hadn’t made it back) but after that…nothing.
Makes me sick to my stomach that people don’t care.
She did make it down fine, but she could have been in trouble and if I hadn’t told one guy he might be disturbing people with the TV loud at midnight, he responded…”Nobodies in the hostel, the woman upstairs never came back…” as if he were talking about a lost puppy…
That is the kind of attitudes that people, in previous years, has long since lost…something is wrong with people, and they ALL USE THEIR damn cell phones on the trail now too…but that’s a different thread