Three hikers were rescued with severe dehydration. They left Palm Springs at about 1.30 pm with temperatures near 100 degrees F

http://cys-hiking-adventures.blogspot.c ... april.html -- The links are active now

Geniuses.

They should have to pay the costs for their own rescue, just for being so stupid and/or ill-prepared!

Here is another rescue. This one was near the 7000 ft level

http://www.mydesert.com/article/2013042 ... ck_check=1

Between stories like these, and the media overload on non-stories like the Boston thing (try living in a myriad of other countries)...I think I might jerk the wheel into a bridge abutment on the way home from work today.

man, darwin has been having a rough go of it lately.