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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in the SW, in an area that is seeing highs in the range of 103-108 (like the day they went hiking). I think the piece of this i STILL cannot understand, is why they were on this hike or what they were doing.

Yes, I know people die all the time of heat stroke. But they KNEW this area, it’s not like many of the cases listed here where it was tourists. I know they’d only lived there a year but that’s plenty of time to be familiar enough with the heat.

Also, living in this desert climate….it’s not like DC. It’s not like the weather is a surprise to anyone. They would have known the forecast for the day. There’s simply no way they didn’t know how hot it was and what was coming. It’s really really hot, every day, for months.

Even assuming that they got a later start than they planned or just somehow didn’t fully realize the heat, there’s no way they wouldn’t have realized soon into their hike that it is REALLY hot out and only getting hotter and there’s no shade. I don’t see why they wouldn’t have anticipated that things were going south. Not in an OMG we are gonna die kind of way. But just in a “this isn’t goood for the baby and really sucks” kind of way. You don’t need to be an expert hiker to discern those things. Why didn’t they turn back sooner into the hike?

Also….1 year olds don’t like to be in hiking carriers for hours. They just don’t. The baby had turned 1 in august.

The whole trip was weirdly conceived.

Now keep a few things in mind….

1. They went somewhere that they likely knew would have no foot traffic
2. They told no one where they were going
3. according to some reports, they did not bring very much water
4. They knew the conditions of the area and where they were going in advance (not clueless tourists)

I go back and forth between FA and heat stroke, but the hike was so ill conceived, and they stuck to it. It strikes me as just not adding up to an accidental hike gone wrong.
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+1  (and I also live in the SW) NO ONE in their right mind would go on a hike like this with a baby. OR with a dog you care about at all. Just NO. The only people that do this sort of thing are (1) dumb tourists and (2) reckless young people in their teens and 20s. I just can’t emphasize this enough. If they were alone, it would be more plausible but it would take a special kind of stupid to go out like this with a baby or a dog.

They are either complete idiots who were overconfident and got in completely over their heads, or it’s a murder-suicide. I think the latter. [/quote]

The only thing I can think is they intended to start really early and go on a &lt;4mi hike.  Something happened that made them start a bit later than intended, but it was still pretty cool at 8am when they actually started on the trail.  Then something or a collection of somethings dragged their hike out.  They made a series of little decisions that culminated in them being unable to make it back to the car by mid-morning like they'd planned.  I can't think that heat was NOT a factor, but perhaps something else was going on as well.

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