Michigan Women Missing For Weeks In The Wilderness Survived On Girl Scout Cookies, Police Say

ABC News ^ | Apr 25, 2015,

[sparklite2]

The two Michigan women lost in the wilderness for almost 2 weeks survived on Girl Scout cookies and cheese puffs, police say.

Leslie Roy, 52, and her sister Lee Marie Wright, 56, were on vacation in a remote part of Michigan when they became stranded by heavy snow on April 11.

According to police, the two women rationed food and gas as they tried to stay warm in their SUV.

"They survived on eight boxes of girl scout cookies, a bag of cheese puffs," Detective Sgt. Jeff Marker of the Michigan State Police told ABC News.

[Ladysmith]

Actually, each will leave you pretty much dead. The “three’s” are for extreme conditions: three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water, and three weeks without food.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep. That was my point. You may survive if you lie still and don't do anything. The key word being may. But you will have harmed yourself.

And finding water in spring time Michigan is not exactly a problem. Staying warm and dry is much harder.

[Kirkwood]

I had a friend who survived 5 days without water. Pretty amazing.

[Bigg Red]

Suppose they were underweight to begin with?

[JimSEA]

Yeah, I was always extra careful to stay out of their way. Unused roads if possible. A log truck can get up a real head of speed on the darnedest rods. If a road was unused, they put up a small berm in AZ and NM anyhow.

[diogenes ghost]

"Now days up there, you had best have at least a pistol or the wolves will hunt you if they are around."

Yup, those durned critters pick off two or three hundred residents a week.

As usual, women and children are the easiest to catch.

[MarMema]

I was told they heard and saw bears but no wolves...

[taterjay]

These foods are lifesavers not junk. They need to be reclassified.

[taterjay]

If they showed up in your business selling the cookies, can one refuse to buy them? After all the proceeds go for feminist causes.

[Hot Tabasco]

If they showed up in your business selling the cookies, can one refuse to buy them?

Who can resist girl scout cookies? I can't............

[crz]

You might chuckle at it. But I have had a pack after me. If people dont know the area, they should not be there.
And I have been down many roads from East of where this went down all the way to Kenton Michigan.

[glock rocks]

Once, during a trek to the wilds of Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew and were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

-- W. C. Fields

[diogenes ghost]

"You might chuckle at it. But I have had a pack after me."

I have hunted in North Ontario, BC, Alaska and other wolf environments, and encountered them many times. Their howling will raise the hair on your neck, but that's about all they will do.

If you walk on two feet, you have little to fear from them. Whitetail deer kill more North Americans than wolves do.

To quote a great American, you can look it up!.

Fear Bambi, not Lobo!!!

[Awgie]

Just another example of the stupidity of post modern humans. Most of us dont have one tenth of the common sense or practical knowledge that our recent ancestors had.

I will stop at this point as I feel an ugly anti average American dumb ass rant coming on.

[tubebender]

I have been lost in front of my computer for days and lived on nothing but Cashews & Corn Nuts ~

[crz]

“ESCANABA - When Delta Conservation District Executive Director Rory Mattson headed out to begin a forestry project Oct. 8 along Trombley Road, he didn’t expect to find himself treed by a small pack of wolves.”

https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2013/11/29/wolf-attacks-on-humans-in-north-america/

There is one other-a game biologist from the UP who was attacked, but the report was dropped because the anti hunt people did not want the report out that wolves are attacking people in Michigan. Then come the accounts of several loggers who were attacked in western Wisconsin a few years ago. Then myself, when I had a pack surround me near McFarland Michigan while I was out looking at a timber sale I intended to bid on.
So..you calling me a liar?

[Darren McCarty]

Crisp Point is extremely remote, as is most of Luce County outside of Newberry. There's probably as many bears as people outside of the Newberry area. They are lucky to be alive since is still gets real cold at night in the UP (20's).

For two middle age women outside of the area, they probably did the smart thing to sit and wait and avoid freezing to death. I probably would have gone out and hoofed it, but I grew up in a remote area, have a good sense of direction, and could probably be able to get from Crisp Point to either Newberry or Whitefish Point/Paradise. I'd also have my gun with me in case the bears or the wolves decided I was food. Bears are especially active this time of year.

[Darren McCarty]

It's rare for wolves (and rarer for coyotes) to attack, but it can and has happen. That part of the UP is definitely "nature's territory. Considering the "prey drive" instinct that animals have, those two I can see being viewed as targets more than most humans.

I wonder if they used GPS to try and get to Tahquamenon or Newberry and ended up on a bad road to take outside of summer.

I grew up in the woods outside of Roscommon and I'd be a bit nervous if I was in their boat.

[crz]

Depends what time of the year Darren. They were out there in the worst time of the year. Everything is hungry. If anyone wants to hunt deer now days, they need to go around the towns. That is where they are at. The wolves have them chased into town. Iron Mountain/Kingsford has a real problem with them. I have seen them right downtown there, lots of times.

[crz]

Depends what time of the year Darren. They were out there in the worst time of the year. Everything is hungry. If anyone wants to hunt deer now days, they need to go around the towns. That is where they are at. The wolves have them chased into town. Iron Mountain/Kingsford has a real problem with them. I have seen them right downtown there, lots of times.