65 year old woman dies on Peralta

[chumley]

65 year old woman dies on Peralta yesterday.

California couple (71-year old husband) were experienced hikers and had been hiking 10 hours yesterday when wife collapsed.

That's a long time to be out in the kind of temperatures we are experiencing, even for experienced hot weather hikers.

http://www.abc15.com/news/region-southe ... wilderness

[azbackpackr]

Oh, that's sad. I was at Lake Mohave yesterday. On the lake in my kayak it didn't seem as hot, and every so often I stopped at a beach and swam. I wore a long sleeved shirt, a huge ventilated hat, drank water and ate salty peanuts. Putting my boat back on the car was the worst part but before I was finished I went to the water and dunked myself again, got my clothes wet. I can't even imagine thinking about going for a hike in that kind of heat. When I left my motel in Bullhead yesterday morning to head for the lake at 6:15 a.m. it was hot. It had never cooled off overnight.

[cactuscat]

I'm betting that they didn't intend to be out for 10 hours - probably the hike took much longer than they expected, or they got lost. They almost made it out ... so sad.
I once rescued a couple out in the Supes under similar circumstances and led them back to their trailhead, otherwise their outcome might have been similar.