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Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:05 am to LSUTANGERINE
Here's a Go Pro video of the Alkali Flat Trail. Two hours, with Chinese narration. This dude survived. Maybe Chinese are better acclimated to the heat. LINK
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:06 am to SEClint
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Who goes hiking in heat like that.
My exact thoughts when I saw that article.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:08 am to LSUTANGERINE
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Yes he lived. Father kept saying the car is just over there. He was disoriented
Damn
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:12 am to LSUTANGERINE
City folks 
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:13 am to SEClint
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Who goes hiking in heat like that.
I don't walk to my mailbox in heat like that
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:15 am to Jebeco
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What kind of fricked up vacation is that?
"Hey Pierre, how about we walk across a desert this summer with no water to relax and have fun?"
first thought that popped in my head. Seriously what a stupid fricking "trail". 
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:15 am to TheCaterpillar
Natural selection at work
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:29 am to GetCocky11
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Reminds me of people trying to hike 8-10 mile trails in the Smokies in jeans and tennis shoes or flip flops who start their hikes at around 1 in the afternoon. These are the same people who try to get selfies with black bears.
So what would be ideal attire for that hike? Jeans makes sense to me and I'd imagine boots or nice tennis shoes, but I know nothing, Jon snow. So what would work
This post was edited on 8/10/15 at 10:56 am
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:41 am to LSUTANGERINE
These folks are not that unusual. As I contemplate the poor choice they made, I wonder why they didn't foresee the danger. Without knowing for sure, I will assume that warnings were posted by the trail, much less the obvious natural warning signs of the desert conditions themselves staring the couple in the face.
I think 3 factors must have been involved:
1) The Darwin principle. These folks just made a bad choice and the fault lies in their ignorance/stupidity/carelessness.
2) In our human and national efforts to be kind to each other and to make nature more easily "accessible", we have created a false "Disney-fication" of our National "Parks". People have come to expect that they will be protected by the big soft hand of government and would never be allowed into a dangerous situation that is "sponsored" by a governmental agency.
3) We have become desensitized to warnings. Thanks to lawyers, we are inundated with excessive warnings over even the most trivial of hazards. The effect has been to water down their effectiveness, especially on the dim-witted, who can't tell the difference between real and trumped up dangers.
I think 3 factors must have been involved:
1) The Darwin principle. These folks just made a bad choice and the fault lies in their ignorance/stupidity/carelessness.
2) In our human and national efforts to be kind to each other and to make nature more easily "accessible", we have created a false "Disney-fication" of our National "Parks". People have come to expect that they will be protected by the big soft hand of government and would never be allowed into a dangerous situation that is "sponsored" by a governmental agency.
3) We have become desensitized to warnings. Thanks to lawyers, we are inundated with excessive warnings over even the most trivial of hazards. The effect has been to water down their effectiveness, especially on the dim-witted, who can't tell the difference between real and trumped up dangers.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:48 am to Jimbeaux
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In our human and national efforts to be kind to each other and to make nature more easily "accessible", we have created a false "Disney-fication" of our National "Parks".
I've been to Disney World in July. Near 100 degree temperatures. People can die.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:51 am to Jim Rockford
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Length of trail: 4.6 miles (7.4 km) round-trip
How does anybody get in that kind of trouble walking less than five miles?
French are weak. Pretty sure I could run/jog that far to get back to the visitor center.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:55 am to Jim Rockford
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:57 am to CtotheVrzrbck
Putting aside the humor in your post, I'm sure you would agree that it's more than a little absurd to claim that "the French are weak" based off of this ONE couple.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:58 am to PapaPogey
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how do you get that far and THEN just realize holy shite it's hot and I have no water. damn French are clueless
France is about as big a Central. They figured wrong.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 11:02 am to Jimbeaux
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Thanks to lawyers, we are inundated with excessive warnings over even the most trivial of hazards
It's not a lawyer's fault these frogs, likely dehydrated from a lifestyle of swilling wine and little water, decided to go John Wayne.
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who can't tell the difference between real and trumped up dangers
I can. Then again, I'm a lawyer.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 11:04 am to ballscaster
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Same way you get halfway through Russia and realize it's cold as shite. It's the kind of thing that they do.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 11:07 am to Meauxjeaux
this sounds like a chevy chase movie, only in the movie, a kentwood truck would have driven by right before death was upon them
Posted on 8/10/15 at 11:09 am to Jimbeaux
Can you imagine the jail sentence for the corporate fat cat who put a bunch of poles in the middle of the desert and enticed people to go walk around them in mid-day sun at 110+ heat?
Posted on 8/10/15 at 11:13 am to LSUTANGERINE
BTW, this probably needs it's own thread.
Awesome police work...
Kid's probably dead too without that heads up work.
Awesome police work...
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They called the Otero County Sheriff's Office, which sent deputies and emergency responders, but 51-year-old Ornella Steiner already was dead.
"They were trying to figure out why she was on the trail by herself," Sheriff Benny House told CNN.
Looking at Steiner's camera for clues, the deputy saw photos of a man and boy at the park's entrance. They were unaccounted for, House said, so deputies then extended their search.
Kid's probably dead too without that heads up work.
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