Guard helping search for 2 Mount Hood climbers

[unhappycamper]

Guard helping search for 2 Mount Hood climbers
By Tim Fought - The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Dec 13, 2009 15:58:36 EST

GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. — Searchers used a helicopter Sunday to search for two missing climbers on Oregon’s Mount Hood and were preparing take rescue and medical teams back to the area on a second try.

Capt. Stephen Bomar, an Oregon Army National Guard spokesman, said he didn’t know if the crew of the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter had spotted the climbers. It is “still on ongoing rescue,” he said.

The two climbers along with another man went up the mountain on Friday. Crews found the third climber’s body on Saturday.

The weather forecast for Sunday called for slightly warming temperatures with snow fall tapering off and chances of improved visibility.

The two missing climbers were heading up an especially treacherous face of the mountain.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/12/ap_mount_hood_oregon_guard_121309/

[thunder rising]

1. Two morons get lost on a mountain and we'll spend $100K on them ... go figure.

[hlthe2b]

2. Perhaps.... I know many would agree with you..

But, if it wasn't two young guys doing an extreme climb, but a family caught off guard and their car lost in a blizzard somewhere, would you feel the same?


I think we all lose something if potential liability for cost of rescue prevents even the most average of us from enjoying the great outdoors... Clearly, there is a line there somewhere that requires one to be trained and prepared and not to stretch oneself in a way that is totally irreconcilable to ones' skills, but still... I'd rather my tax dollars go to these kind of domestic rescues, which provide useful training opportunities for the Guard, then wasting billions on imperialistic wars overseas.

[thunder rising]

4. now apply that to health care. This sucks.

[PavePusher]

3. Going down that chain of logic...

you get to: You eat bacon? No healthcare for you....