Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion Who is gonna pay for the SAR?

CaT
that was the point I was making was abut the numbers. The actual number of hikers needing rescue and therefore the money spent, far exceeds the climber rescues, not only because of the number of hikers and their relative lack of training/knowledge/preparedness, but because climbers can generally effect self rescues as well, so rescuing climbers is a tiny bit of the Yosemite SAR work so why should people get overly upset about it?
Jim