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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m on of the Arizona posters who posted 300 pages ago that it was inconceivable to me to leave on a bike like that so late in the morning especially with a dog and baby.   I think people around the world are really going to have to adjust their expectations about what they can do given the rising global temperatures.  Stay safe everyone.  Mother Nature has a real wicked side.[/quote]

Yeah, WTAF were they thinking?? And why didn’t they turn back way sooner? I would have attempted that hike with a dog and a baby in ideal conditions. Sounds mean but this seems like sort of a Darwin Award to me.[/quote]

I posted my HS theory back around page 10-ish or so.  I don't think we'll ever really know 'why'.  My best guess is a tragic cascade of miscalculations:
1. Lots of 'adventure tourism' gave them false confidence in their abilities and preparation
2. The research they did was inadequate for understanding how extreme the terrain would be
3. Online pictures from before the 2018 fire made it look like the S-L trail would be well shaded with plenty of trees
4. The downhill trek in the morning was probably fine.  But once they were at the river, there's no way out except 'up'.  Turning back or going forward, you still need to go 'up' ... and if they still didn't understand that S-L would be completely shade-free, that may have looked like the better option than going back up the way they went down.
5. When the first one (dog or baby or adult) started having trouble, the logical thing to do would be park one adult with dog & baby at the river, and 2nd adult go for help.  But they only had one water bladder, so they couldn't split up.  So everyone slowed down to help the struggling person/animal, dooming all of them.

Very poor decision to have all of their water in one bladder (an analogy of eggs and baskets comes to mind...).  But that was just one of many poor decisions that, on its own, might have been survivable.  It's the compounded effect of ALL the poor decisions and unfortunate circumstances that killed them, IMHO.[/quote]

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