He needed a helicopter because his injury prevented him from hitchhiking.

I could understand this if it was her Manolo's but I doubt she had them on on hiking trail.

Not suprised.

I have had to tone out a volunteer dept around 0200 for a woman who had a yeast infection.

Srsly.

I was on watch when a "mayday" call came in from a woman who's engine quit on her. She was off the Florida Keys and "in distress". Turns out that 2 hours later she was actually making way (moving). I called her back. She was in a sailboat, with sails up. No distress, no mayday. Everytime she called she would yell MAYDAY! I told her to stop that.

You should have sent them out with a tube of Monistat.

Well actually he wasn't the one who called. One of the guys from the group that he was in had called for the helicopter rescue.So technically, he wasn't "the moron". He might have been in a group of morons though :P

All jokes aside, and regardless of the folly or otherwise of the person who made the call this is damned irresponsible journalism

No details are given of the trail or the terrain. It's only at the last that the details of the weather are given.

Hands are a pretty important part of rock climbing and if it were necessary to climb a difficult rock face. Does anyone seriously think this would be a good be a good idea with an injured thumb?

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It clearly wasn't such a cut and dried case that the person charged with triaging incidents on the mountain felt comfortable without first consulting others.

So there may be people reading this article who would question whether it was appropriate to call mountain rescue for advice (which is really what happened here if you cut through the BS) for fear of ridicule, potentially putting their lives at risk.

This is not something comical like a woman with thrush or a man not knowing how to make sandwiches but a serious issue.

The only moron I see here is Lorna Colquhoun.

Knowing the area might help with making that call.

Check here: Mount Crescent

It isn't a rock-climbing area. It's a hiking trail. A fairly low-exertion hiking trail.

The eastern 'mountain' ranges in the US are pretty rounded, well eroded hills. Yes, there are craggy, talus slopes and rock climbing areas, but not many. If they'd called this person a rock-climber, it would be a different story.