Ok, I'll bite. Who is carrying dynamite in the backcountry?gdurkee wrote:Yep, dynamite. Very common when a horse or mule is close to the trail or water and there's not a pack of hungry bears close at hand. Short straw blaster.
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Ok, I'll bite. Who is carrying dynamite in the backcountry?gdurkee wrote:Yep, dynamite. Very common when a horse or mule is close to the trail or water and there's not a pack of hungry bears close at hand. Short straw blaster.
Long story and details are fuzzy since the story was told to me some time ago, but the horse wasn't the only death on the trip. Apparently, the packer himself had a heart attack and perished the following night. And that's the G-rated version. The rest of the story having to do with the fate of the dead packer's body is pretty disturbing.Ozark Flip wrote:Precisely Eric....dynamite. Whew dogs, all the trees and brush turned redish brown.
I wondered if anyone else had heard of this.
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Extremely good news. Backcountry rangers carry a lot of junk that we wouldn't otherwise carry were we not paid so much (e.g. a calculator to figure out our bonuses & 401K), but dynamite is not something we carry. Only trail crews and then only a few with a blaster's license. Even then, they don't routinely carry explosives unless they know they've got a big rock or something that needs blowing up. Then they order it and it's either flown or hauled in by mule.Sorry for the dynamite diversion, but i'd kinda like to know if my ranger friends out there carry dynamite.
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