I always carry way more water than I will need, and usually some sort of food and maybe a knife, flashlight, or extra socks, even on little 3 hour hikes. I've been on group hikes with people like that who think one 16 oz bottle for a 10 mile hike is sufficient. They usually bum water off someone else, but the next time around (assuming they ever come back) they still carry just like one small bottle. Yet they always have room for phones and selfie sticks and even ipads. But no water. Bonus if they wear flip flops on a mountainous rocky trail full of snakes and sharp rocks. I've also seen them wearing chucks/skate shoes with no arch support, flats, slip ons, fashion boots (because they're the same as hiking boots amiright), skinny jeans, all manner of sandals, and (in a snowy winter hike) mesh top sneakers that soon became soaking wet and the guy had to use plastic bags to keep his feet dry. The shoes then froze solid overnight. I've seen girls pack makeup but not extra water and no food. I've seen people bring drones, but no extra water. And they think a string backpack is just as good for an overnight as a hiking pack.
It seems like people have an extremely romanticized view of the outdoors and don't understand you are one wrong move from death at all times. Step wrong, twist your ankle, die alone and freezing. Take the wrong turn on a trail or a "shortcut", get lost, die of dehydration under a tree just a few miles from a road. Even experienced hikers die all the time, from dehydration or mountain lions or leg/ankle injuries or just plain getting lost. But effete millenials whose only outdoor adventure thus far had been a starbux patio think it's kindergarten.
>>797965>when it's over 105-110?>100 flat, very low humidity, innacity>2 hour walk>become so thirsty that I have to purchase a drink in addition to the bottle of water I always carryI can't imagine hiking in that shit. I hike in 90 no problem but after that it gets mercilessly uncomfortable.
