I just don't get it!

xhunter
blaming is a weakness in leadership. I will not trust my life with people like you outdoor.

Consider what happen now. everybody are feeling pain and depressing.  All you did is add more salt to the wound.

Being a hunter and fisherman. I never seen people more professional then these people. I can trust my life with them. Their leadership.

Look at their postings. you will see how many years of experiences they had. look at what they carried. you will see how professtional they are. Look what they did, they went back to find their missing partner after three days of traveling and called RCMP as soon as possible.

It is an accident! like driving a car. When somebody had an accident. Is that because they didn't respecting the car? Should they never drive a car again?

Now is the time to deal with what has happened. not pointing usless fingers. That is what we call responsibleness and leadership.

Learning from this accident is important, but first things first. Lets give more support to those who actually did something for the situation.

bushguy
Anyone will be welcome to my camp. But keep in mind that brand named equipment don't mean nothing and don't make you more professional but the looks. I'm still learning too. The most fatal mistake made this time was nobody stopped him when he wandered off and the whole group didnt stop to assess th situation when the last visual contact was made. So where was the leadership? To me it seems that the victim panicked when he thought he was lost, got wet and cold and being alone. Rule number one in the mountain/bush is knowing your limits. Rule number two is no panic. Rule number three for a group is staying together and never leaving anyone behind. The whole group kept moving for at least another hour without know where he was, which seems very irresponsible. More people got killed where they thought were far away from help after giving up, while the help was just minutes away. As always, those got killed were those who thought the toughest ones.

In this case why the 'experienced' leader didn't leave a couple of guys at the parking lot keeping in touch with the police and go back to pinpoint the victim? Scared? Time was just wasted like that!

What a waste of life!

xhunter
I want to apologize for those inappropriate words i used. Here, I want to say sorry. Please accept my apology.

bushguy, I want to apologize to you too. I read your note again. I understand your intention. You want everybody to be safe too. Maybe I over reacted.

Maybe I can visit your camp next time when i am in vancouver. I am willing to learn, if you are willing to teach.

Charlieji
I never hiked with this group. Newly registered with this website and just spent few hours in researching the people here in order to prepare for future involvement.

I never heard about the victim before, but now I learned how risky can be when go out hiking here even with an experienced team.

From personal experience, I feel the outdoor sport, like any other format of exercises, is a matter of balance of body and mind, which requires the quality of conscious and self-control, as well as the empathy to self, nature and team members.

It is more about the ego management rather than the elevation gain or length of the trail or the beauty of the view.

I remember there is great quote: “the road to recovery is a trail".  For those who would like to remind you about the true meaning of the hiking, I would like suggest hiking on this one of the safest trails in BC again - it becomes danger for only one reason: you lost your true character as a well-functioned human - a circumstance that we may all encounter once a while in life. That is why we hike for – to sustain these qualities.

We hike to remember the character, we hike for recovering it…