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Missing hiker found alive after spending 10 days in Santa Cruz Mountains
ABC7News ^ | 6/22/24 | Lauren Martinez

Posted on 06/23/2024 1:00:49 PM PDT by CFW

A missing Santa Cruz County hiker is back home after spending more than a week in the mountains, and the heartfelt reunion was all captured in photos.

Lukas McClish, 34, said spent 10 days in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

On Tuesday, June 11, McClish headed out for a three-hour hike from his hometown of Boulder Creek. He said he got lost and didn't recognize certain landmarks wiped out by fires.

When he didn't show up for Father's Day dinner, he was declared missing on Sunday, June 16.

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"I left with just a pair of pants, and my pair of hiking shoes, and a hat. I had a flashlight, and a pair of folding scissors, like a Leatherman tool. And that was about it," McClish said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7news.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bouldercreek; california; found; hiker; lukasmcclish; missinghiker; santacruz; santacruzcounty; survival
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To: oldplayer

Yeah something is off here.

There are literally roads everywhere in there.


21 posted on 06/23/2024 2:42:43 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: CFW

Couple things

Now that i’ve heard the story from a few other friends

He walked off with something called folding scissors?

Lame and everyone carries a knife

He had a flashlight for a daytime hike?

Experience hiker knowledge of the area only three hours?

Covered himself in mud?

I call bs

He was hiking with a bucket and Jill


22 posted on 06/23/2024 2:43:08 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: cyclotic

What is an MSP?
I need to get me one...


23 posted on 06/23/2024 2:52:01 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: null and void

Map


24 posted on 06/23/2024 3:00:06 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: bigbob

3 weeks without food
3 days without water
3 minutes without air
3 seconds without hope.

He kept hope, drank water and did well


25 posted on 06/23/2024 3:01:58 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: CFW

I try to help people with no sense of direction to acclimate wherever they are. I point out things like ‘the coast, the big ocean is that way.’ West for some, East for others. Once you have East and West down, it becomes a little easier. The Sun always rises in the East and sets in the West. Most people will at least try to take this information in. Those that don’t just don’t want to know.

One day I was walking with a college classmate. The building was very large, with long hallways. We had walked most of the way to the end of the hallway when she announced that she was heading to the subway. We had been walking West, and the subway is to the East. As I pointed out that she would have to turn around and head back the way she came, she cursed, and asked just how I knew, how I oriented the world from inside a building. I told her that she could do the same thing. If we had kept walking West, we would have reached the ocean, so walking away from the ocean is heading East. By this time she was too frustrated to take in and actualize the information. I tried to smooth things over, stating not everyone has a sense of direction. Did not help much.


26 posted on 06/23/2024 3:19:06 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Vendome

He covered himself in mud so the Predator wouldn’t see him. I agree, this smells of BS.

Guy is milking it.


27 posted on 06/23/2024 3:26:28 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: oldplayer

“Of course, we’re sitting safely in our homes...”

Not all of us are safe in our homes. Some of us live in democrat controlled states.


28 posted on 06/23/2024 3:47:13 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: HYPOCRACY

Been thinking about this a bit more and even Gilroy I can smell his crap from here

I lived in Brookdale and can pretty much walk off into the forest and make my way back or find a road or look at some moss and how the branches grow on various plants to figure East and West


29 posted on 06/23/2024 3:52:41 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Cold Heart; oldplayer

LOL!


30 posted on 06/23/2024 3:54:00 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: plain talk

34 yrs old?! He looks more like 84!


31 posted on 06/23/2024 4:16:30 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: HYPOCRACY

The first pics of the guy showed him wearing Ranger Rick’s shirt. Wondered why but then he didn’t list a shirt as a thing he took with him. I’m guessing likker, weed, or some other convenient space med was a fakter in his going off half cocked. Then he said it was a 3 hour hike but didn’t say how long before he decided to turn back. Sounds like it took him 3 days for his head to clear up enough to realize he was lost.

Don’t want this guy on my Pathfinder team.


32 posted on 06/23/2024 4:23:42 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: Vendome
Guy was likely loaded, or milking it.

If he was savvy enough to go on a three hour hike, he likely knew which way the coast was to the west.

33 posted on 06/23/2024 4:26:46 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: CFW

I wish there was more information about how he found water etc.


34 posted on 06/23/2024 4:28:06 PM PDT by CottonBall (Every one of the Founding Fathers was a felon. Some went to jail, some executed, some died penniles)
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To: CFW

Thank God he was found alive. That was a long time to be lost and without proper gear and food.


35 posted on 06/23/2024 5:02:33 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: af_vet_1981

When is his book coming out?


36 posted on 06/23/2024 5:19:01 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

She sounds like me. My girl brain just does not know how to orient to directions. You would not believe how much of my life was wasted in driving lost before GPS.

If I go into a large building, I must remind myself to study features so that I go the right way on the way out. It takes some work.

Men just usually seem to understand direction and know where they are.


37 posted on 06/23/2024 6:01:56 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: cyclotic

I found 3 pages of references to Minneapolis St Paul, and the airport MSP...


38 posted on 06/23/2024 6:32:29 PM PDT by null and void (“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up”. ~ Lily Tomlin)
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To: Vendome

That’s the garlic...


39 posted on 06/23/2024 6:36:13 PM PDT by null and void (“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up”. ~ Lily Tomlin)
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To: CFW

At lest one meal and a qt of water .a lighter or some type of fire starter .


40 posted on 06/23/2024 6:41:39 PM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. " )
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