When you get these symptoms at altitude, it is best to assume it is AMS until demonstrated otherwise...did I respond based on the assumption that it was AMS or in the hope it was something else?
That is an important observation and something I touched upon above
2. If someone vomits while hiking at elevation, do you automatically assume that it is AMS? Would you immediately descend? My gut feeling is that it should be assumed to be AMS until proven otherwise.
My gut feeling at the time was that we should descend, but I let the 'credentials' of the others in the group trump my assumption. If there had been only two of us on the hike, I have no doubt we would have descended.
PS: I posted on this before my JMT last year.
Do you have a link to the thread? (nvm, found it:
http://www.whitneyzone.com/wz/ubbthreads.php/topics/32173/Training_question_pain_in_the_#Post32173)
