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The other odd thing here is that SAR was alerted by a caller, presumably someone close to the hiker who knew their itinerary, and was worried when they were not
by abeppu 3y ago
The other odd thing here is that SAR was alerted by a caller, presumably someone close to the hiker who knew their itinerary, and was worried when they were not off the trail by that evening. But that caller appears not to have tried to tell the hiker that they were calling SAR? And presumably that caller would _not_ be an unknown number ...
- i_am_jl 3y ago>presumably someone close to the hiker who knew their itinerary I'm not sure what this trailhead is like, but it's not unheard of for someone to call rangers who call SAR for something as simple as a car parked at a trailhead after it's closed.
- rafram 3y agoThey likely didn’t know that the hiker would have cell reception on the mountain. That’s the sort of thing that SAR would know, but the average person’s assumption is that you’re not going to have reception on the trail.