Be careful out there...

On Saturday afternoon, 3/15, a couple of young hikers ran into some trouble in the Superstition Mountains. Around here, you often hear warnings about being careful in the desert. They are usually about the heat and taking plenty of water with you. People just need to remember that when you step into a national forest or a wilderness area or whatever, it is not an amusement park. It doesn't have handrails on the stairs or warning stickers by anything that might be even mildly dangerous, or any of the thousands of safety features built into amusement parks as the result of thousands of lawsuits. Nature will always allow you to go places you really shouldn't be, without giving so much as a sigh of discouragement or a hint of the disaster that could be just moments away. It's up to you to think about what you are doing, and keep thinking about it all the time you are out there, or you could wind up falling 80 feet and landing on your face, too.

Click here to read about the guy that survived such a fall with minor (compared to death) injuries.