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by devindotcom 3777 days ago
You can also be injured, left behind, faint, stop to help someone, etc.

A drone that can follow a trail that changes quite a bit over the year and is trained to recognize obvious trail signals (jacket on tree, reflectors) or human voices offtrail as it passes ("help! over here!") would be excellent. A drone pass at closing time might become a standard precaution and CYA thing for parks, plus they can give trail notes like where it's poorly marked, blockage and collapses, and so on.
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samcheng 3777 days ago
Ugh, I hope not! Nothing like ruining the joy of alpenglow with the high-pitched buzz of the nanny state.
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onion2k 3777 days ago
To be fair, the wilderness being littered with dead bodies would probably ruin it more.
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samcheng 3777 days ago
It isn't, though!

The only wilderness place I know that is 'littered with dead bodies' is Mt. Everest. And that is from hypoxia and exposure, not getting lost.

EDIT: Hmm, and maybe Aokigahara Suicide Forest in Japan. Also not from getting lost.

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