[Az-Geocaching] Death of geocacher Mike Curtin (a.k.a. FHR Rangers) due to heat in Orange County, CA

[Scott Wood]

At 07:59 PM 9/3/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>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

Being someone who grew up with the Clearwater National Forest in my 
backyard, literally, I spent a lot of time in the backcountry and 
outdoors.  That continued on when I was a forest fire fighter.  Even with 
tons of experience in the outdoors, things can still happen that are beyond 
your control, regardless of how prepared you are.

Those of us in the desert tend to be a little more prepared for being out 
in the heat than those in places that only get hot occasionally, but that 
is still no guarantee.  Even on the easiest hike just about anything could 
happen.

I would also like to see the list of 10 essentials and compare that to my 
own list that I have come up with over the years.  Perhaps compiling a list 
would be a good thing to post to azgeocaching.com.



>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/
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Scott
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