Re: [Paddlewise] Teenager drowns on Chatooga, retrieval effortsd angerous

I disagree.  Often, things such as wilderness are more important than people.
Although the death of the girl is unfortunate, she is just one person do did an
extremely stupid act.  I don't think the tradeoff of harming unique wilderness
is worth the closure.

Bottom line, and this will seem harsh, is that if you go into the wilderness and
do dumb things, you should be prepared to pay the consequences without expecting
other people to endanger their lives to rescue you.  I hav never figured out why
people risk their lives to rescue people who dosuch dumb things that they do not
deserve to be rescued.


"Mills, Larry" wrote:

> Steve
>
> I agree that it is terribly sad.
>
> And wading across upstream of a Class IV is just wrong.
>
> But the debate isn't the rightness or wrongness of signs
> in wild areas or wading in the wrong place.  It's about
> a dead girl.
>
> If it was your child, I suspect you would do anything
> and everything possible to retrieve their body.  I know I
> would.  I put people ahead of things every time.
>
> Larry Mills
> Purchase, NY
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Cramer [SMTP:cramer_at_coe.uga.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 10:12 A.M.
> > To:   paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
> > Subject:      Re: [Paddlewise] Teenager drowns on Chatooga, retrieval
> > efforts dangerous
> >
> > Elaine Harmon wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi- been reading about this in rec.boats.paddle. That kid was NOT A
> > BOATER but a hiker who was wading and fell in.
> > >
> > > We should all email Strom Thurmond and bitch (or something). Why not
> > just
> > > put signs up whereever hiking paths come up to rivers?
> >
> > Mainly because this is a National Wild and Scenic River. You don't put
> > structures in W&SR corridors. Also, wading across a river upstream of a
> > Class IV rapid is perhaps not the safest approach to crossing a river.
> >
> > A very sad situation.
> >
> > Steve
> >
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> > University of Georgia
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