Rescue services reduced for reopening of popular hiking trail

Compared to how developed and the wild side of nature is removed from parks in Japan, I really wouldn't be concerned about lesser emergency personnel on standby. Where else would you see concrete stairs with chain handrails that go well up into a mountain trail and have perfectly operational vending machines at the summit. I say you'd really have to be in real trouble to call for rescue, but then again, there are those people that hike and camp all bundled up in the mid-day of summer

Seeing as the locals here like to wear sweaters under parkas even in summer, have no water with them, and wear masks even before Corona 2020 when "mountain hiking" I think this is a very bad idea.

smh.. how about not opening it then?