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Sports and recreation
Backcountry hiking
Estimated acute risk associated with backcountry or wilderness hiking away from maintained trails.
Rough estimateDemo estimate - replace before production
Base risk estimate
0.01 micromorts per hours
Population-level estimate. Not a personal prediction.
Assumptions
Assumes wilderness hiking in remote terrain, away from maintained trails, with basic backcountry skills.
Limitations
Highly variable by remoteness, terrain type, solo vs group, navigation skill, emergency preparedness, weather, and altitude.
Source notes
Placeholder value for development only. Wilderness medicine literature and NPS SAR data are the best available sources. NOLS Wilderness Risk Management Conference proceedings and Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal contain incident rate studies for backcountry settings.
Last reviewed
6/10/2026
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