He looks pretty rough in this pic as one might expect although I was surprised a bit about the ashen look to his face.
Posted on 06/23/2024 1:00:49 PM PDT by CFW
However, he was apparently knowledgeable about what he could eat in the wild and located water sufficient to survive for ten days, so who am I to criticize?
Ten essentials are always good to have. He did well but maybe a MSP and compass might have helped…and a whistle
another idiot
Especially the whistle. Although he probably could have made one like I did as a kid. Most essential was a clear head and water, which he did well with.
MSP?
... a three-hour trip. At least he wasn’t on the Minnow.
Or an iPhone with satellite texting. First model was the 14.
Ten days is a long time to be lost when you’re just a couple of hours hike from Boulder Creek. I wonder what he was doing that whole time? Why didn’t he just follow a creek to the ocean? One day or even two days, maybe. Ten days doesn’t make any sense. There are roads and homes all over that area.
He looks pretty rough in this pic as one might expect although I was surprised a bit about the ashen look to his face.
Glad this 3-hour tour didn’t turn out like Gilligan’s 3-hour tour
He looks blue. Maybe overdid the colloidal silver?
Exactly. When that happens to you it shouldn’t be referred to as “lost”, one was “temporarily disoriented” :-)
Back in ~’77 my Great Grandmother (~82) got “temporarily disoriented” for 6 days in the Appalachians.
Ahahaha, posted something akin, should’ve read mpore posts first :D
Mud to ward off mosquitoes?
Why wouldn’t you look around and see a light and head for that?
Ten days is a long time to be lost when you’re just a couple of hours hike from Boulder Creek. I wonder what he was doing that whole time? Why didn’t he just follow a creek to the ocean? One day or even two days, maybe. Ten days doesn’t make any sense. There are roads and homes all over that area.
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Exactly, Big Basin is rugged and dense, but it’s not exactly a wilderness area. Walk in a even a slightly reasonably straight line in any direction and you’d get out of trouble long before 10-days.
Of course, we’re sitting safely in our homes as we give suggestions.
I’m from there and was captain of search and rescue
I don’t go off into woods for 3 hours without knife, water(which means I have a vessel), compass and means to start a fire
Then again I usually have my day pack which enables me to stay out til I feel like going home
Only thing I don’t take is food. Not necessary
And Gilligan’s SS Minnow headed out for a three-hour tour. I’m thinking the number three is unlucky in these sorts of things.
“Mud to ward off mosquitoes?”
Yeah. makes sense. He went native. Don’t blame him.
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