WHATTTT!!!!!!?????
HA!!!
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.
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.
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.
“...who were lost on a Southern California trail for about three hours Friday night before they were rescued.”
Lost for three hours. Pikers.
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?
Guess they learned something useful.
The iPhone “Find My Teenager” feature saves the day again.
IF ONLY they made a compass that wasn’t powered by batteries or a phone.
Daddy always said “You gotta be tough, to be dumb.”
It is still amazing that, with the weekly stories of people getting lost while taking a morning hike, there are those that will take off on such a trek without at least a bottle of water and a granola bar in their pocket. So many people do not know how to mark their trail when they take off from the beaten path so they can find their way back.
My husband was a boy scout in his youth. He has a great sense of direction, but anytime he was taking us for a hike in an unknown (or even known) area, he always left trail markers to help us find our way back. It’s so easy to get disoriented, especially on a cloudy day when you can’t see the sun. I would also suggest taking a compass, but that’s useless unless you know how to read one. Too many young people do not know the east from the west and have no idea how the location of the sun or moon in the sky can tell you in which direction you are traveling.
They were lucky the temps were as high as they were - every year, hikers go missing in the San Gabriel mountains, where temps easily and often drop to below freezing.
The hard-core hikers and backpackers in my own family carry satellite phones, file their plans at the ranger station (backpackers) and let us family members know when to expect them back.
Use Emergency SOS on your iPhone
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208076
60 degrees
10 teens
A short hike
Big deal?
CA used to talk about charging for searches of lost hikers. Why not? If you don’t know better, maybe coughing up $$$ would remind one to prepare better and not take off on a lark.
Does android have a similar app?
I’m pleased to learn of their rescue.
All of my off-trail hiking occurred in the years before cellphones. I knew how to tell directions with and without a compass.
I never needed to, but I was able to build a shelter and start a fire. And I could build a water trap.
Wait….the app was called “We’re not prepared”???