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Hiker rescued off B.C. cliffside after taking non-existent Google Maps trail (www.nelsonstar.com)
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[–] NIB@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Plenty of people fuck up using their own judgement. Hiking can be dangerous. You assume that if something is on googlemaps, it is somehow vetted and/or "commonly used", otherwise why would googlemaps even have a path in the forest/mountain.