B.C.'s North Shore Rescue says 2015 was busiest year to date

Which proves the theory that as a species we're regressing when it comes to our IQ.

Not really. Always been numbnuts. The nice weather just pulled more people out, so the ratio of numbnuts doesn't increase, just the total number of rescues. As the story explains. Haven't heard any winter horror stories yet, even tho there's much more snow back there this year.

No, it's Canada. Narrow strip along the US border and people forget there's 500 miles of sweet fuck all on the other side of the hill.
No 'everything out there is poison' like in Oz or gators and Deliverance hillbillies like down south to keep people in check

The SAR outfits in the Okanagan experienced an uptick as well.

They are blaming it on the weather as well as a push to advertise nature-type tourism in the area.

And on people who don't have the skills and really shouldn't be out in 'nature'. Les Stroud is doing a season of "Survivorman" on adventure tourists who get in way over their heads. It's pretty much the attitude he is trying to convey. If you don't normally go out camping or hunting of fishing, then a weekend in the woods may not be for you. Even seasoned veterans like him make some dumb mistakes and end up becoming statistics.

He almost does it on two different shows - he's one step away from death when he catches himself.

True, but in all that SFA there's some of the most breath taking scenery on God's green earth!

Fresh water and elbow room. My two favorite things about the chunk of dirt called Canada.

Five hour drive to see the specialist if you hurt one of those elbows... or for that matter, want to buy hot dog buns for under $5.00

even though if you a specialist you could have captive clients, a palatial lakeshore home with enough acreage to ski, hunt, fish, snowmobile and hike in your own yard for the price of a condo in Vancouver...

For NRS it's not usually about people going camping, but people going for what they think will be a walk in a park. They don't realize it's real wilderness right at Vancouver's door step, so they head out in high heels or flip flops with shorts and a t-shirt and no idea where they are going. A lot of them this year seem to have been tourists.

Oh, wow. Busiest year.

I wonder if the population is growing?

For NRS it's not usually about people going camping, but people going for what they think will be a walk in a park. They don't realize it's real wilderness right at Vancouver's door step, so they head out in high heels or flip flops with shorts and a t-shirt and no idea where they are going. A lot of them this year seem to have been tourists.

Yes, exactly. It's people who don't realize there are no services, no cell reception, no lights after dark that are getting lost and stranded. People who regularly go into the bush know there is no such thing as just 'a walk in the park'.

One of the re-creations on Survivorman this season was a family who went on their regular Saturday afternoon mushroom picking trip, made a mistake and got caught in the bush after dark and spent a week in the woods unprepared. They were never more than 3km from their car, but nearly died from exposure. And yet, there were all sorts of things they could have survived on, all around them.

For NRS it's not usually about people going camping, but people going for what they think will be a walk in a park. They don't realize it's real wilderness right at Vancouver's door step, so they head out in high heels or flip flops with shorts and a t-shirt and no idea where they are going. A lot of them this year seem to have been tourists.

We just had the same thing here over the weekend. Some couple of city jerks with new snowmobiles found out that 2m of powder is too much for their rides and they spent the weekend stuck in the Sierra. Lucky them the CHP rescued them last night.