>>2740197Maybe they pay for S&R these days but just 10 years ago that wasn’t the case. I paid $8 in 2007 for 5 years of S&R insurance.
I also doubt it was crunchy granolas getting stuck, maybe getting hurt but not likely granolas getting lost and stuck, more like tourists and browns doing that.
Whenever I read about someone in the paper they were always 20ft from safety and made a wrong turn OR just stopped there because they were finally too scared and didn’t want to get more lost OR they decided to climb the nearby cliff to see where the river leads instead of just following water downstream until safety and they got stuck on the cliff ledge.
>>2740056Licenses might be a deterrent to normies but anyone who has been back in the woods knows that there are way more trailheads than there are cops to watch them, and once you’re innawoods off trail nobody is looking for you. I guess if you live in NJ and there’s 10k hunters per sq mile then maybe the cops would be out there, but western forests are fucking huge and unmonitorable
