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Sam06
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Lost these days.
1st the little meth chick in Alabama gets lost in the woods nakid. Never farther than 2 miles from a road and spends 28 days lost.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article168855082.html
Now 2 18 year olds from FL. Got lost hiking on a trail down into the Grand Canyon for 5 days.
Seems like kids now a days don't have much experience in the woods.
The story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4818370/Teens-rescued-Grand-Canyon-five-days.html
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Two teenagers were rescued after getting lost in the Grand Canyon for five days, surviving with no water and just two granola bars.
Rowan Fitch and Reese McMichael, both 18, were on a road trip traveling from Jacksonville, Florida, to the west coast to start college last week.
They decided to take a detour and hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon but got lost, having no water and just two granola bars to share between the two of them.
For five days the boys wandered through the harsh landscape, drinking water out of puddles and sleeping on the ground before they were rescued on Sunday.
Fitch posted a photo of the two friends covered in dirt and recovering in a rescue helicopter on Instagram.
He wrote: 'My best friend Resse McMichael and I getting rescued after spending 5 days stranded in the Grand Canyon.
'For 5 days we rationed 2 granola bars and drank water out of a puddle on the ground, we had no tent or sleeping bags either, we just slept on the ground.
'I'm extremely proud of Reese for his display of mental toughness and perseverance, also thank you to the park rangers for saving our lives!'
The boys got lost when they decided to wander off the trail in order to have a look around and to have lunch, Fitch said to News 4 Jax.
He added to the news station: 'We're hiking up the mountain, and all the sudden we just can't see where the trail is going anymore. It kind of just disappears.'
Be careful out there in the woods Mr. Perfect I know you have a hiking trip planed.
Map, compass, pace count and a gps w?extra batterys. Do a good map recon before you head out and know your location to within 100 meters at all times.
1st the little meth chick in Alabama gets lost in the woods nakid. Never farther than 2 miles from a road and spends 28 days lost.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article168855082.html
Now 2 18 year olds from FL. Got lost hiking on a trail down into the Grand Canyon for 5 days.
Seems like kids now a days don't have much experience in the woods.
The story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4818370/Teens-rescued-Grand-Canyon-five-days.html
C&P
Two teenagers were rescued after getting lost in the Grand Canyon for five days, surviving with no water and just two granola bars.
Rowan Fitch and Reese McMichael, both 18, were on a road trip traveling from Jacksonville, Florida, to the west coast to start college last week.
They decided to take a detour and hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon but got lost, having no water and just two granola bars to share between the two of them.
For five days the boys wandered through the harsh landscape, drinking water out of puddles and sleeping on the ground before they were rescued on Sunday.
Fitch posted a photo of the two friends covered in dirt and recovering in a rescue helicopter on Instagram.
He wrote: 'My best friend Resse McMichael and I getting rescued after spending 5 days stranded in the Grand Canyon.
'For 5 days we rationed 2 granola bars and drank water out of a puddle on the ground, we had no tent or sleeping bags either, we just slept on the ground.
'I'm extremely proud of Reese for his display of mental toughness and perseverance, also thank you to the park rangers for saving our lives!'
The boys got lost when they decided to wander off the trail in order to have a look around and to have lunch, Fitch said to News 4 Jax.
He added to the news station: 'We're hiking up the mountain, and all the sudden we just can't see where the trail is going anymore. It kind of just disappears.'
Be careful out there in the woods Mr. Perfect I know you have a hiking trip planed.
Map, compass, pace count and a gps w?extra batterys. Do a good map recon before you head out and know your location to within 100 meters at all times.
RLTW
Comments
The story:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/23/alone-and-lost-smokies-teen-survives-11-days/596152001/
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ? On his 11th day of being lost in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and being "this close" to eating bugs, 18-year-old Austin Bohanan woke up Tuesday morning on the top of a ridge, looked down, and saw boats floating on Abrams Creek.
At a news conference at park headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, Chief Ranger Steve Kloster relayed the Tennessee teen's initial story of how he emerged uninjured despite entering the park with only light food and water.
Austin and his step-father, identified as Hubert Dyer Jr., somehow became separated in the Shop Creek area of the park on the afternoon of Aug. 11, Austin told park rangers. "We don't have any reason to believe that he was with anybody else," Kloster said.
It wasn't until the night of Aug. 13 that Austin was reported missing. Kloster didn't say Wednesday who reported the teen missing and said Dyer didn't immediately report him missing because the family initially believed they could find him.
But I have never had to eat bugs and drink out of a puddle because I was lost.
To me is the story of the little meth chick is hard to believe. I have seen the pictures of her she was ate up by bugs, skeeters, ticks and brambles but to be "lost" for 28 days and never be farther than 2 miles from a road, I find that a little hard to believe even high on meth.
Meth doesn't last all that long. Unless she had a bunch of it and stayed high the whole time.[:0]
The 2 white trash that were with he even thought the other had killed her and ratted each other out on it[:0]
Nice company she was with.
gps has made the world stupid
I agree.
I navigated though the woods with nothing but a Compass, map and a good known pace count for 20 years as a Ranger.
The Army came out with the GPS for soldiers to use in the field about 1990 or so.
They were big and heavy and after a few times to the field we left them behind(except the officers they loved them, they no longer had to rely on a SGT to tell them where they were)
The comes 2001 and Afghanistan. We had much better GPS and we used them but still used our compass and of course maps.
I like the GPS, my 1st one was one my wife got me with Marlboro Miles and was a Garmin etrex. I used that little guy for 5 years in Combat and still break it out.
But it always has a back up my compass and map.
I am not trying to blow smoke but I have probably spent more time in the woods for an extended time than most people who live in a civilized country.
That said I amazed at the ignorance people have in navigating from one place to the next and their reliance on "gadgets" to get them there.
Even taking a road trip and not having a paper map just a GPS in their car............it amazes me.
I always do a map recon before I head out with my GPS on. If its a really hard to find or long way I will draw a map with notes.
Needless to say I don't get lost and if I do I get unlost muy pronto[;)]