High Sierra Taco stranding all over the news: anyone on here?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news...-in-the-high-sierra/vi-BBSJjZK?ocid=DELLDHP17

 

Next time take a coat & energy bar.

 

McKenna and John need to learn some basic back country driving techniques. This should serve as a wake up call for others, too.

And I'm not talking driving techniques in snow.

I'm talking about emergency preparedness, back country communication (CB/ham, sat phone, garmin in touch, etc), and letting others know where your going and when to start worrying if you don't return. Also, if you split up, you should never leave your last know location - that's a great way to not get found. At least she went back to the truck and stayed there.

Also, I'm not sure peeing on your legs is the best way to stave off the cold. That pee will cool off very quickly, and now you're just wet, which will pull even more heat from your body. If anything, she should have peed in a bottle and used that for what little heat it would offer.

Also, maybe bring a shovel and recovery gear next time.

 

Stranded, to peeing on yourself. In three posts. A new record. Doesn't it normally take like 5-10 on here?

 

Millennials

 

I think you're thinking of being called a nazi or something (Godwin's Law).

Since you posted the video though, technically you brought it up first, lol.

I was simply saying that's a bad idea.

Kinda like drinking liquor to "warm" you up. All it does is cause the blood from your warm core to travel to your extremities, making you feel warmer for a short time, but all it's doing is accelerating the cooling of your blood.

That said, in the 8 years I've been a member, I've never seen a thread about peeing on yourself. What threads do YOU participate in??

 

Is an 18 year old even a millennial still?

 

Wait, wrong forum. Sorry!

 

An 18 year old will ALWAYS be a millennial, just as a GenX-er will always be a GenX-er, no matter what age they attain.

 

I know that. I'm just saying that if you're 18 now, like the 2 kids in the news story, you're too young to really be called a millennial. That would be post-millennial, or whatever name ends up sticking to that generation.

I've seen age "definitions" all over the map though. Growing up, I thought I was Gen Y because that was the name we were "given", but I've since been included as I was born in '79. Millennials are the new "Gen Y" and were born 1981-1996, old enough to remember/comprehend 9/11, but young enough to have gone thru the 2008 recession as young adults. Although I find it hard to believe that a 38 year old today would be considered a millennial...

This is apparently something that the Pew Research Center does.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/

I know, off topic. Whatever.

 

Amazing how unsafe people can be, not even proper clothing and only a minimal amount of fuel, really??