A Lesson For All

Last week, Ted Ropple mentioned in a blog about hiking in the mountains—one of his favourite pastimes—that a woman had recently frozen to death, having gone out unprepared. I had a mind to comment on his post, but the comment kept getting longer and longer, so I thought I’d blog about it, instead.

Then, before I could get to it, he followed it up with a very informative post about what to bring when you do hike in the mountains.

And so, now that Ted has laid the groundwork, here is my stor...