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The most Dangerous Parks

Writer: balzaccom
balzaccom
Jan 7, 2022
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We liked this story about where the National Park Service most often has to call on a Search and Rescue (SAR) to help out visitors. We guessed that the Grand Canyon would be on the list, and Yosemite. But some of the others were a bit surprising...



Here's a chart from that story:



Of course, once we realized that Mt. Whitney is in SEKI, we also realized that lots of crazy people would be trying to climb it without appropriate gear or experience...

 
 
 

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