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(The Hill)   You won't believe the condition a 68-year-old Death Valley hiker was found in   (thehill.com) divider line
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    More: Obvious, Inyo County, California, California Highway Patrol helicopter crew, Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Wednesday afternoon, Furnace Creek, California, Helicopter rotors, Family members  
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whyRpeoplesostupid  
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2021-07-30 5:54:36 PM  
Raisin?
 
EdwardTellerhands  
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2021-07-30 6:00:59 PM  
Mint?
 
gopher321 [OhFark]  
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2021-07-30 6:03:27 PM  

whyRpeoplesostupid: Raisin?


I was going with, 'He probably looked like a piece of jerky'

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whyRpeoplesostupid  
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2021-07-30 6:12:11 PM  

gopher321: whyRpeoplesostupid: Raisin?

I was going with, 'He probably looked like a piece of jerky'

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The hiker embarked on a 12-mile round trip hike through the salt flats


yeah, you're right
 
RolandTGunner [TotalFark]  
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2021-07-30 6:17:03 PM  
"His cause of death is under investigation."

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Nina9 [TotalFark]  
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2021-07-30 6:17:42 PM  
"His cause of death is under investigation."

Alligator mauling?
 
moos [OhFark]  
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2021-07-30 6:30:46 PM  
verdant mountain?
 
iToad [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2021-07-30 6:37:46 PM  
118 F and 91% humidity? I hope that the humidity figure is a mistake. If true, that would result in a wet bulb temperature of 115 F / 46 C, which is more than enough to kill anybody.
 
cretinbob [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2021-07-30 6:41:01 PM  
ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION - Burnt Weeny Sandwich LP 1970 Full Album
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psilocyberguy  
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2021-07-30 7:25:04 PM  
Came here looking for Wet Bulb. Not disappointed.
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2021-07-30 7:45:01 PM  

iToad: 118 F and 91% humidity? I hope that the humidity figure is a mistake. If true, that would result in a wet bulb temperature of 115 F / 46 C, which is more than enough to kill anybody.


It's almost certain that temperature and that level of humidity were recorded on the same day, but not at the same time. The monsoon brings humidity but it cools things off about 30 degrees as the humidity rises.

Still, 118F is lethal and exposure to that temp for long periods could kill anyone.

I don't understand why people think it's ok to go hiking in that kind of weather. I would never do that myself. It's insane.

/desert rat
 
bingethinker [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2021-07-30 7:45:37 PM  
I guess we can rule out drowning.
 
KarmicDisaster [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2021-07-30 7:58:25 PM  
Nurse! Moisturizer, stat!
 
Confabulat [TotalFark]  
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2021-07-30 8:00:09 PM  
How do you make it to 68 years old and still be so dumb that you go on a 12-mile hike in the hottest place in the world in late July?
 
IP  
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2021-07-30 8:23:02 PM  

Confabulat: How do you make it to 68 years old and still be so dumb that you go on a 12-mile hike in the hottest place in the world in late July?


Blind luck.
 
Miss_Dorothy_Kilgallen [TotalFark]  
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2021-07-30 8:34:29 PM  

gopher321: whyRpeoplesostupid: Raisin?

I was going with, 'He probably looked like a piece of jerky'

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Original? Peppered? Or teriyaki?
 
BlippityBleep [TotalFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:10:07 PM  
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Enigmamf [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:11:04 PM  

bingethinker: I guess we can rule out drowning.


Might have drowned in his own sweat.
 
Biledriver  
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2021-07-30 9:12:19 PM  
Fully hydrated and complaining of a draft?
 
Some Junkie Cosmonaut  
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2021-07-30 9:12:20 PM  

Confabulat: How do you make it to 68 years old and still be so dumb that you go on a 12-mile hike in the hottest place in the world in late July?


Probably someone that normally takes heat pretty well, figured he'd quit it if he started feeling weird, and got addled right quick.  Some people are overly convinced in their own superpowers.  It's been 120 where I live - and yeah I've been out in because sometimes you gotta do shiat.  I'm staying in the shade as much as possible, and not moving far away from the house.  Get whatever done as fast as possible, get the hell back inside.  That kind of temp is not to be farked with

/was a mere 107 or so today, with 22% humidity
//even that feels like someone's trying to sauna your ass to death
///someone goes out but doesn't come in for a bit - we go out and check
 
waxbeans  
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2021-07-30 9:12:29 PM  

Confabulat: How do you make it to 68 years old and still be so dumb that you go on a 12-mile hike in the hottest place in the world in late July?


I'm beginning to suspect these are suicides
 
tonguedepressor [TotalFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:13:28 PM  
Best use of Obvious Tag I've seen in quite a while.
 
imauniter [OhFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:13:34 PM  
Good one subby.
I didn't expect that.
 
Madman drummers bummers [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:14:50 PM  
But it's a die heat.
 
tonguedepressor [TotalFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:17:40 PM  
See, this is why you can never really count on The Weather Channel.
 
powhound  
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2021-07-30 9:17:42 PM  
They really should just stack the bodies at prominent places around that place to serve as a warning to others.
 
I should be in the kitchen  
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2021-07-30 9:18:18 PM  

bingethinker: I guess we can rule out drowning.


Unless he went diving in the Devil's Hole
 
Russ1642  
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2021-07-30 9:18:20 PM  
I've had decent hypothermia, but you know you can give up hiking at any time and start a fire. And I carry a PLB with GPS. Besides, hiking is just a fancy word for walking. It's only slightly less safe than sitting on the couch and watching TV, unless you lack a functioning brain.
 
Rann Xerox [TotalFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:19:10 PM  
Dry martini?
 
tonguedepressor [TotalFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:20:06 PM  
"His cause of death is under investigation."

Untreated heel bones spurs aggravated by Military service?
 
tonguedepressor [TotalFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:22:46 PM  

Confabulat: How do you make it to 68 years old and still be so dumb that you go on a 12-mile hike in the hottest place in the world in late July?


He was trying to make it to Mexico before. Aug 13.
 
HAMMERTOE  
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2021-07-30 9:23:04 PM  
Covid?
 
berylman  
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2021-07-30 9:28:36 PM  
Natural mummification is an interesting way to go. Who knows...maybe it was on his bucket list and this was the grande finale
 
Incident on 57th Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:31:12 PM  
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Incident on 57th Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:32:10 PM  
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Whoops.  Wrong thread.   I apologize.
 
lolmao500  
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2021-07-30 9:33:53 PM  

iToad: 118 F and 91% humidity? I hope that the humidity figure is a mistake. If true, that would result in a wet bulb temperature of 115 F / 46 C, which is more than enough to kill anybody.


The humidity figure is wrong.

According to data, the weather was 116F at most with 12% humidity on wednesday.

The highest humidity all week was 82% but with 82F temperatures.

He just died because he was totally unprepared physically.
 
El Borscht  
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2021-07-30 9:35:10 PM  
Twenty bucks says he was from Bellingham.
 
lolmao500  
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2021-07-30 9:35:45 PM  

waxbeans: Confabulat: How do you make it to 68 years old and still be so dumb that you go on a 12-mile hike in the hottest place in the world in late July?

I'm beginning to suspect these are suicides


Good way to fake a dumb death so the family get the insurance money.
 
tonguedepressor [TotalFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:35:59 PM  

Incident on 57th Street: [Fark user image 576x432]


Man that equipment is simply top notch, how old is that pic?
 
pissnmoan  
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2021-07-30 9:36:05 PM  

powhound: They really should just stack the bodies at prominent places around that place to serve as a warning to others.


That practice doesn't seem to help matters at Mr. Everest.  I guess they don't stack them but you have a bunch of old frozen bodies laying around and acting as landmarks.  They might stack them....you might need the space to pitch your tent or something.
 
Salmon  
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2021-07-30 9:36:43 PM  

Incident on 57th Street: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Whoops.  Wrong thread.   I apologize.


it works
 
daffy  
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2021-07-30 9:37:06 PM  
OK. He is dead. I would like to know how. Was it heatstroke or snakebite? They certainly didn't give many details.
 
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2021-07-30 9:38:14 PM  
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Mega Steve  
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2021-07-30 9:39:24 PM  
The spirit of Ronald Reagan claims yet another victim
 
tonguedepressor [TotalFark]  
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2021-07-30 9:41:15 PM  

Confabulat: How do you make it to 68 years old and still be so dumb that you go on a 12-mile hike in the hottest place in the world in late July?


Absolute precise spacing of "Golden Corral Next Exit!" signs?
 
DorkusThe2nd  
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2021-07-30 9:41:15 PM  
If only there was some way to give the place a name that would serve as a warning.
 
resident dystopian  
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2021-07-30 9:42:44 PM  

Salmon: Incident on 57th Street: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Whoops.  Wrong thread.   I apologize.

it works


There is never a "wrong" thread.
/beef jerky keeps
//so does frozen beef patties.
 
Patmaniac  
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2021-07-30 9:44:36 PM  
I'm thinking before he went on his walk he thought 'today's a good day to die' , otherwise it makes no sense. 12 miles in the salt flats in 118F? Nuts, stupid or determined to end his life.
 
frankb00th  
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2021-07-30 9:45:44 PM  

powhound: They really should just stack the bodies at prominent places around that place to serve as a warning to others.


The ones all over Everest don't deter climbers so...
 
Loren  
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2021-07-30 9:49:40 PM  

iToad: 118 F and 91% humidity? I hope that the humidity figure is a mistake. If true, that would result in a wet bulb temperature of 115 F / 46 C, which is more than enough to kill anybody.


Since they currently have a 15% chance of rain and 27% humidity I do not find that 91% out of the question and certainly more likely than 9.1%.

Some Junkie Cosmonaut: Probably someone that normally takes heat pretty well, figured he'd quit it if he started feeling weird, and got addled right quick. Some people are overly convinced in their own superpowers. It's been 120 where I live - and yeah I've been out in because sometimes you gotta do shiat. I'm staying in the shade as much as possible, and not moving far away from the house. Get whatever done as fast as possible, get the hell back inside. That kind of temp is not to be farked with


Yeah.  There's a hot spring maybe 50 miles from here--they have to close the parking lot because search and rescue got tired of pulling people and occasionally bodies out of the canyon.  120F and no shade was common, yet idiots went out into it.

Russ1642: I've had decent hypothermia, but you know you can give up hiking at any time and start a fire. And I carry a PLB with GPS. Besides, hiking is just a fancy word for walking. It's only slightly less safe than sitting on the couch and watching TV, unless you lack a functioning brain.


A PLB without GPS wouldn't be of any use.
 
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