Longs "rescue" Tuesday

[peter303]

Relatives initiate rescue of guys who didnt want to be rescued. Everyone OK.
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/04/rm ... ongs-peak/

[Wish I lived in CO]

Reminds me of when I lived in Michigan - ice fisherman on Lake Huron on occasion would have to be helicoptered off of ice flows. However they often would resist the rescue in fear of being charged.

[Sugar Madison]

There was a little bit more going on behind the scenes beyond an outright refusal. The party was pretty hypoxic/hypothermic and thought they just needed to figure out the route (that they had been up at least a dozen times before). Spent most of the night looking for the exit move off Kieners. Definitely needed SAR involvement, but I think there was some level of cognitive impairment (which led to confusion) due to the weather/conditions/altitude. (I know one in the party, not someone I would classify as a proud/ego type of person and definitely not worried about the cost of a rescue). As a climber/runner, I found it both interesting and fairly sobering to see how (1) a couple of questionable decisions could go south so quickly and (2) how fast one can be rendered fairly incapacitated, even to a *very* strong athlete.