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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m fat and out of shape and I live in southern arizona.

I don’t think it was heat stroke. For those of us that live in these climates, we know how to deal with the heat. I’ve gone hiking, in the morning, in the summer. I’ve never been close to heat stroke, and I’m a person who barely sweats. Also, 109 in 20% humidity for a person who is in good shape and has water is unlikely to be suddenly hit with heat stroke. It would take more time to cumulatively build up.

You’d be surprised how much the temp swings throughout the day and how much the lack of humidity helps. For example, my kids play outside when it’s in the low 100s here and we are all fat, fair skinned Scandinavians. Nobody has ever gotten heat exhaustion, let alone heat stroke. [/quote]
They were walking up an extremely steep switchback, though. And also likely in an area with much worse air quality than what you have due to the forest fires. The baby hiking carrier posted up thread looks very heavy, and who knows if one of them (including the dog) was possibly in distress from an injury, which could have slowed them down and kept them there for many more hours than they anticipated. There was apparently zero shade between them and the truck since a fire wiped all the trees out a couple of years ago. [/quote]

I also think heat stroke is a viable theory.  I don't see them splitting up if one is struggling.  But note that baby hiking carrier was an example one.  They are slightly heavy, but the 1 year old itself is also pretty heavy.  + water[/quote]

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