Aldaron
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Maybe this is a good topic for discussion.
Sometimes I get a little obsessed, and a couple of years ago I decided that I wanted to find out what was really the number one cause of death in the backcountry. I had always heard that it was falling, but I wanted to try to confirm that.
So I started collecting data...religiously...for a whole year.
And this is what I came up with:
http://www.edarnell.com/2010.html
The final conclusion: falling was far and away the number one cause of death in the backcountry.
Go figure.
And the thing many people worry about: animal attacks? Barely even on the radar.
What did I learn? Stop doing stupid things in high places...gravity always wins.
But I enjoyed collecting the data, and now it feels weird not to be doing it! I might do it again next year just to see how it plays out a second year.
Sometimes I get a little obsessed, and a couple of years ago I decided that I wanted to find out what was really the number one cause of death in the backcountry. I had always heard that it was falling, but I wanted to try to confirm that.
So I started collecting data...religiously...for a whole year.
And this is what I came up with:
http://www.edarnell.com/2010.html
The final conclusion: falling was far and away the number one cause of death in the backcountry.
Go figure.
And the thing many people worry about: animal attacks? Barely even on the radar.
What did I learn? Stop doing stupid things in high places...gravity always wins.
But I enjoyed collecting the data, and now it feels weird not to be doing it! I might do it again next year just to see how it plays out a second year.