Hope the student is found soon. There’s still three to four feet of snow in some parts of the mountain.
"Anand is a student at Dartmouth College and was on a group hike sponsored by the college.
Fish and Game said Anand was improperly dressed for hiking, wearing sneakers in the snow. He left his group and attempted to head back on his own.
That’s not good. He shouldn’t have been allowed on the trip to start with and when he turned back, he should have had a companion.
It has been very cold at night so the outcome will not be good for an inexperienced and ill prepared hiker.
I don’t understand why the Outing Club would have allowed anyone to hike Moosilauke right now without snowshoes, microspikes, etc etc. The leaders must know about the snow coverage right now, they had to have been informed. They own most of that mountain.
May I respectfully ask that the focus remain on finding him before switching to blame? There are other circumstances involved that aren’t included in the article. My daughter is a friend of his and involved with the search, and all anyone wants right now is for him to be found safely. There will be plenty of time to learn from this experience later.
@Proudmom89 You’re right, and I apologize. I should have held off on expressing my surprise at the situation. I hope the young man is found safe and sound, and soon.
Hi,
As of this morning the student was found alive and walking and is being transported to the hospital! (@Proudmom89 @doschicos @JanieWalker)
Do please note that the trip was not run through the Dartmouth Outing Club and was not led by student leaders in the club. It was a PE class led by college staff members, and not under the authority of the DOC student leader body. The training of student leaders includes multiple policies which would have prevented such a situation from happening (and the student leaders are furious that the hike was allowed to happen as it did).
A big shout out to all of the NH Fish and Game, DOC, and volunteer crews who searched and found him.
-Dartmouth alum and community member
Thanks for the great news and clarification on details, @sprucemoose16.
Hope he’s okay.
Thanks for the update, @sprucemoose16 .
What you stated regarding the Outing Club runs more in line with my expectations of them, as someone who knows Moosilauke fairly well and has hiked up that mountain dozens of times year round from all sides over the past decade+. The Outing Club owns much of that mountain, and the folks in the Outing Club are simply too knowledgeable and too responsible to have someone start a hike in sneakers this time of year, let alone have him walk back out on his own. Hence my post above - I was really surprised at what I was reading from the local news and FB groups. Didn’t mean it as a judgment so much as a “wha…???” because it did not make sense. Nevertheless, I should have held off on that post.
In any event, very glad the fellow will be okay! SAR people are awesome.
https://www.vnews.com/Dartmouth-College-Vows-to-Pay-for-Search-Costs-25768164
" hiking the mountain as part of a Dartmouth Outing Club class named “Hiking Overnight,” went missing on Saturday, May 11, and was found on Monday, May 13, dehydrated and hypothermic but alive.
…who was wearing only sneakers to hike in and who was found shoeless, became lost when he tried to return to the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge alone…wasn’t prepared for the hike…other students may not have been either, which Fish and Game plans to look into as part of their probe into the incident…
The hike was listed as a Dartmouth Outing Club course that fulfilled a requirement for a PE credit, according to the college’s website. But the post indicated the hike was to take place on 2,200-foot Moose Mountain in Hanover, not Mount Moosilauke, a 5,000-foot peak in the White Mountains."