Mt. Washington Rescue

[TJsName]

Don't laugh, but when I lived in CO, one town adopted a "fee" system for the fire dept. When arriving at a burning house, they realized the owner had "opted out" of the system. They let it burn, while he waved his money at them.

I laughed - sorry!

 

[Stan]

We seem to lose sight that search and rescue is a humanitarian endeavor and not a profit center. As for stupidity on the trail, well, that stupidity exists off the trail, too. If we could extract a fee for every act of stupidity, that would be some marvelous profit center.