LogFAQs > #955922116

...while hiking?

I was up in Glacier National Park last week and it was full of people, many of them with their kids and such.

Now for women, if they want to wear impractical clothes to go hiking (like nearly all of them were) that's fine. As adults they can decide what they want to do and suffer the consequences. Hell sometimes I ride my bike in jeans just because I like wearing jeans even though they're bad for riding.

Also if this was the city (or almost anywhere that wasn't a mosquito, bee, tick, poisonous plant, sharp rock, and slippery slope having mountain), like were I am now in Seattle, I wouldn't have any issue with it since wearing such clothing is sensible in this heat and urban environment (as long as they put sunscreen on all that exposed skin).

But in this case either the parents picked out the clothes to bring on their trip and are utter fools, or they let the kid pick and didn't bother checking and vetoing the poor (but understandable) decision making of their child. I don't know, just seems like bad parenting to me.