Rescued hiker will never forget the night lost on Mount San Gorgonio
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Ed wrote:I've had enough self-inflicted bad experiences to take a dim view of descending by any route I am not familiar with, unless it is a trail or I have a full view of it. But if you do, I wonder if it safer to stay on a ridge rather than descend a canyon.
OtherHand wrote:I've always felt strongly that cross country travel up or down is MUCH safer and superior when done on a spine. You have more options (good cell coverage) and much better visibility as to the terrain ahead. No such possibility down in a canyon and it's easy to get trapped (not that it's ever happened to me). There's also a good mathematical argument to be made that the average gradient of a spine is less than the adjacent ravine.
Myth wrote:Water makes canyons and water doesn't worry about vertical drops or getting back up.
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