Sad to hear about the death of a fellow geocacher.  Good reminder of the
dangers of being out in the backcountry.  I'd guess that the rates of cachers
getting into trouble will be similar to those of regular hikers.  Besides
those of us who are a bit more aware of the dangers, there are many who are
relatively inexperienced outdoors amoungst our number (I'd guess just a
little bit less than amoungst the average hikers, but probably not that much
different).  We also have that extra incentive to get to the cache which
might make us a little too vulnerable to the "go fever" syndrome that could
take us a little too far.  Good to remember that we are all human and there
are many ways nature can get you.

Jim.

On 3 Sep 2002, Brian Cluff wrote:

> Does anyone know if this is the first geocaching to die while
> geocaching?
> This is the first that I can remember.  Considering the number of
> cachers in the world, that would make us some of the most resposible
> people out there.
> Or in other words we take plenty of water so that we can make sure that
> all the garbage that we are hauling onto archeology sites actually gets
> there, and we get back home save, so we can trash another site on
> another day.
> 
> Brian Cluff
> Team Snaptek
> 
> On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 17:09, ken@highpointer.com wrote:
> > The geocacher who died this weekend due to heat-related causes in Orange County, California was Mike Curtin, who went by the user name of FHR Rangers.  The death was reported by geocacher seminary7 in a posting on the Groundspeak forum.
> 
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Jim Scotti                              
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory         jscotti@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu 
University of Arizona                
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/