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Hikers - Top Story!
While We Are Bitching About Things...
How is it that the top story for the last 4 days is these missing hikers who wandered up Mount Hood in the winter? There is nothing else going on in the world that is more important than finding them? This is like some twisted corrolary to the Missing White Woman phenomenon. Because of the found SF family story (sorry, Jack), now any missing people in the northwest are national news? How many people go missing on Everest or other mountains per year? Why are Oregon/the federal government expending the resources that they are to find guys who voluntarily went out hiking on a mountain during the winter? Over 60 hikers on the mountain now in bad weather to try to find the remaining two?
Assumption of risk holds no water in the real world today, I guess.
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