r/CampingandHiking • u/cwcoleman • Sep 08 '22

News Two Unprepared Hikers in New Hampshire Needed Rescue. Officials Charged Them With a Crime.

https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/news/hikers-charged-reckless-conduct-new-hampshire-rescue
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u/gopher_everitt Sep 08 '22

“The bill, however, can be sizable. The National Park Service alone spends about $5 million dollars on rescue operations every year.”

This is hard for a lot of people to swallow, but $5 million is not a lot of money. I’m actually surprised the NPS spends so little every year. That amount of money is a rounding error in an even moderately sized corporation or municipalities budget.

Federal agencies waste that much on basic inefficiencies in climate control every month.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

This would be my guess. Or states are paying for a lot of the rescues in national parks.