| You may not think about this, but camping | | | | taking cover. Even though your odds of being |
| requires a lot of common sense. You will need | | | | struck (even at higher risks) are very low, |
| to use basic education that you have acquired | | | | you will need to still take precautions |
| through out your years of school so that you | | | | because it is not something that you can |
| can avoid doing anything that is basically | | | | predict. |
| dumb. You will find that there are a lot of | | | | |
| dangers that lurk in the woods and you will | | | | Being struck can end up seriously hurting a |
| find that the most commonly found dangers | | | | person and could end up killing them, |
| include the climbing aspect and lightening. | | | | depending on the voltage. You will want to |
| | | | consider that this odds or not something that |
| Did you know that there are over a hundred | | | | you will want to mess with. As for the second |
| people who die in a year because they were | | | | major danger, you will want to consider that |
| struck by lightening? You will want to make | | | | you need to have common sense in the safety |
| sure that you use your common sense when it | | | | matters of hiking. |
| comes to being outside in an electrical | | | | |
| storm. You will also find that the lighting | | | | Obviously, you don't need to stand too close |
| will occur mostly in the clouds, but there | | | | to a cliff, and you never know when a gust of |
| are going to be a few strikes every now and | | | | wind will knock you down. You don't want to |
| then. If you happen to be the tallest thing | | | | put your life at risk just for a thrill. You |
| around like standing on top of an open | | | | will need to think about how sturdy the |
| mountain site, you will find that your odds | | | | mountain side is before you climb it, because |
| of getting hit by lightening are very high. | | | | you never know about rather or not your |
| This is because of all the salt water that is | | | | stepping area will give away. You will also |
| in an human body will attract the lightening | | | | find that even if you don't get seriously |
| and forms a conductor. You will find that | | | | hurt from a fall, you are now at danger for |
| when you are wet, your odds are even worse. | | | | parasites and infections from the open cuts |
| You will want to think about the safety by | | | | and scrapes. |