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The volunteers of the Cairn Ridge Rescue Team review their callout logs each winter. Team coordinator Devon Iwasaki reported that although members had long trained chiefly for technical cliff evacuations, the logs from the previous eight seasons showed that fewer than one call in ten involved a fall from steep terrain. By far the most common scenario, accounting for just over half of all callouts, was a hiker who had become disoriented while descending after dark and who had then stopped moving out of caution, uninjured but increasingly cold. In response, the team reallocated a third of its annual training hours to nighttime route-finding and to methods for rewarming a stationary subject who has no injuries.

According to the text, what did the logs reveal about the majority of the team's callouts?

  1. A. They involved hikers who had fallen from steep terrain.
  2. B. They took place during the winter seasons rather than in summer.
  3. C. They involved uninjured hikers who had halted while descending in darkness.Correct
  4. D. They required the technical cliff-evacuation equipment the team had trained with.

Answer: C. They involved uninjured hikers who had halted while descending in darkness.

The text says the scenario 'accounting for just over half of all callouts' was a disoriented hiker descending after dark who stopped moving, 'uninjured but increasingly cold' — a majority, which is choice C. A names the category the text explicitly caps at 'fewer than one call in ten,' mistaking the team's training emphasis for its actual caseload. B misreads 'review their callout logs each winter': the reviews are annual and wintertime, but the text says nothing about when the callouts themselves occurred. D repeats the same error as A while adding an equipment claim the text never makes.

Why the other answers are wrong

A. They involved hikers who had fallen from steep terrain.
Falls from steep terrain are what the team had trained for, but the text explicitly caps them at 'fewer than one call in ten' — that's the training emphasis, not the actual caseload.
B. They took place during the winter seasons rather than in summer.
The text says the team reviews its logs each winter; that tells you when the reviews happen, not when the callouts happened. The passage never says which season the calls came in.
D. They required the technical cliff-evacuation equipment the team had trained with.
This repeats the mix-up between training focus and actual calls — cliff evacuations were under one call in ten — and adds a claim about equipment the text never makes.

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