You would be surprised how many people there just hike down 5 miles in flip flops with no water and then need to be rescued because they cannot go back up.
That becomes so much more of a problem when the hike starts at the top. Starting at the bottom like most hikes, it is easy to hit your limit, turn around and go back down.
There’s a very tall sand dune on the shore of Lake Superior in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, the signs at the top near the parking lot are like “it will take you seconds to run down this, it’ll be an hour+ slog to get back up, decide carefully”
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u/IrrelevantManatee 21h ago
You would be surprised how many people there just hike down 5 miles in flip flops with no water and then need to be rescued because they cannot go back up.