[pct-l] Hiker rescued near Snow Creek/Fuller Ridge was NOT dehydrated

[Melissa Rexilius]

I never slandered any specific restaurant. The facts are that she ate Mexican food in Idyllwild. She said it was from a restaurant. That's not the definition of slander, that's just the truth. I am not sure if it was the main restaurant that you are talking about. And nor do I care to find out. My only concern is making sure the PCT community knows that she was not an irresponsible or ill-equipped hiker. And you are right, you can't prove her food borne illness came from a specific place. I can only repeat the information I heard from her. I am not worried about libel charges because I have called no particular establishment out.  

t.Rex

Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 15:19:59 -0700
Subject: Re: Hiker rescued near Snow Creek/Fuller Ridge was NOT dehydrated
From: atetuna at gmail.com
To: melissa.rexilius at hotmail.com
CC: tortoise73 at charter.net; pct-l at backcountry.net; jape1 at cox.net

While I thank you for telling us more about Sarah and her situation, I also suggest that you wait for all the facts before slandering a restaurant that many of us enjoy eating at, and if you have those facts, please present them.  If the food there was bad, I'm sure there were several other hikers, locals and tourists that also got sick.  I ate there myself on the 5th and thoroughly enjoyed the meal and the company I ate with.


On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Melissa Rexilius <melissa.rexilius at hotmail.com> wrote:






Hi all,
I had the pleasure of hanging out with Sarah, aka Quijote, now more appropriately named "Airlift" for a good 5 hours yesterday to help her get her eye glasses and trekking poles which were not allowed as loose items on the helicopter. She was not dehydrated, and she was not sick from altitude. She had food poisoning from a Mexican Food restaurant in Idyllwild. It's unfortunate that the Riverside Sheriff's Department has ran this story without knowing all the facts, and subsequently some people believing it up to another under-prepared or ill-equipped hiker, based on the report. She had plenty of water in her, it was the food. I feel like I need to stick up for this girl! She's still trying to keep food down 3 days later in Palm Springs. A dehydrated or altitude sick individual would have long ago recovered.


t.Rex 		 	   		  


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