Two hikers trying to tackle Unnecessary Mountain near Vancouver, British Columbia, had to call in a rescue team after they stumbled into snow. The pair were only wearing flat-soled sneakers, unaware that the higher altitudes of a mountain range only some 15 degrees of latitude away from the Arctic Circle might still be snowy in the spring.  "We ended up going up there with boots for them," Brent Calkin, leader of the Lions Bay Search and Rescue team, told Vancouver Sun. "We asked them their boot size and brought up boots and ski poles." It turns out that to plan […]