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Posted by FMD on January 23, 2008 at 12:32:23 pm EST
In reply to Re: Perils of Winter posted by calamity on January 23, 2008 at 2:00:19 am EST

Calamity wrote:

With ordinary common sense, the average hiker, in average circumstances, has a mile-wide margin of safety, and therefore, "pushing the envelope" is a good way to broaden one's experience

Ordinary common sense, average hiker and pushing the envelope all seems to contradict each other. Here is where average ordinary people pushing the envolope get themselves into trouble in cold weather.

I would not recommend pushing the envolope UNTIL you have the experiance, training and proper gear. Then you can push the envolope to gain more experiance and you'll know when that envolope begins to exceed your training and comfort zone. But, if you havent experianced stress or panic in certain situations, panic can creep up on you and panic is what many of people perish from. Not the elements of winter.

Calamity, what may seem common sense to you may very well not be to a person that has never been in the outdoors. And surely, walking ones dog down the sidewalk that you walked many times is different from being out in the woods.

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