This book provides a wonderful window into 1960s state park culture and gender discrimination. The main takeaway is that misogyny kills. Basically if you’re a “girl” (and almost all the women are girls in this book, the rest are wives and are mentioned after their husbands as though they were an accessory brought along for the trip) and you report danger or try to take precautions you are “hysterical”. If you scream while female, people will assume you are “hysterical” and not save you. If another woman reports you were screaming, people will assume she ia “hysterical” and not save you. You will die. This book is the most I’ve heard the word “hysterical” in my entire life. This is a useful cautionary tale about how women die because we are women. I wish things were so very different now, but I think they are only a little different. I feel angry.