Group of Missing Teen Hikers, Found Using iPhone Feature, 'Were Not Prepared' for Climb, Officials Say

NBC News ^ | May 17, 2023 | Julianne McShane

[Osage Orange]

NYC hospital employee seen in viral video appearing to take bike from young Black men has receipts showing she rented it, lawyer says The hikers and the search and rescue team returned to the Santa Paula Canyon Trailhead around 2:40 a.m. Saturday, it said.

WHATTTT!!!!!!?????

HA!!!

[Jonty30]

People tend to underestimate their ability to get lost when they go off trail. It’s surprising how easy it is to lose a trail even when you’ve gone just thirty feet off of it.

It happened to me in Jasper. I was on my way back to my car and I could see the trail across a relatively small patch of wilderness that I thought I could save some time by heading straight towards it. I lost the trail that I was heading toward and I lost the trail I had left. My compass app on my cellphone saved me that day, even though my phone died after 15 minutes after that.

I learned to carry a power bank with enough charge to recharge a phone completely.

[lee martell]

Ten or more teenagers, from 16 to 18 y/o, and they weren’t better prepared? Some California Natives!
Either they are children of Limosine Liberals or they spent the first half of the hike smoking, jokin and tokin. Not paying attention to their direction or landmarks.

There are no Lions down there except for Mountain Lions.
There are no Tigers, but we do have different kinds of Bears in many of the backwoods.

[fretzer]

ChatGPT

[No name given]

‘Either they are children of Limosine Liberals or they spent the first half of the hike smoking, jokin and tokin’
Probably both.

[lurk]

The hills can eat you up. Salt Lake County has a full time tech team to fetch lost souls from the canyons.

It’s good that they were found safe, and didn’t run into a hungry cat.

[moovova]

“...who were lost on a Southern California trail for about three hours Friday night before they were rescued.”

Lost for three hours. Pikers.

[Ellendra]

Over half of the 990 deaths in national parks from 2014 to 2016 — the most recent years for which data is available — were due to unintentional causes

Which raises questions about the half that were not unintentional.

[Falconspeed]

Beautiful area near Thomas Aquinas College. They probably went to the Punch Bowl pool to relax and then decided on the spot to keep going further into the hills. Problem: the hills beyond the Punch Bowl pool require skill and preparation.

[higgmeister]

This is the most asinine thing I've ever read.

Rescued by an app!

Maybe I'm just a pompous jerk but...   I grew up on a farm with hundreds of acres of land to play in, as kids can get away with trespassing on the adjoining spreads.   I regularly hiked and camped with the Boy Scouts through all weather and seasons, with the pièce de résistance of my outdoor life being a week portaging our canoes between lakes in the Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada with my brother, only a couple of weeks after high school graduation, our last activity with our Explorer Scout Post.

How can anybody live without recognizing Poison Ivy at a glance?

[larrytown]

Guess they learned something useful.

[Osage Orange]

I do not know what that means.....Frankly do not give a flying piece of pizza!!! LOL!!

[glorgau]

The iPhone “Find My Teenager” feature saves the day again.

[bdfromlv]

they might have run into Julian Sands, missing since 1/13.

[ansel12]

“””I learned to carry a power bank with enough charge to recharge a phone completely.”””

A little shirt pocket power bank and a cell phone when lost in the woods sure make for a lot of good, it would take a good writer to even get close to how useful that combo is.

[ClearCase_guy]

Lost for three hours. Pikers.

"I was never lost. But I was once confused for three days."
-- Daniel Boone

[BipolarBob]

IF ONLY they made a compass that wasn’t powered by batteries or a phone.

[moovova]

LOL.

[Fireone]

Daddy always said “You gotta be tough, to be dumb.”