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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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No matter how long you plan to hike, take the basic survival gear with you. Water, protein bars, a good knife, a compass, and other items handy in that particular area. Apparently, he didn't even take a cell phone. And let someone know when you should return so they know when to sound the alarm.

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?

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

Ten essentials are always good to have. He did well but maybe a MSP and compass might have helped…and a whistle


2 posted on 06/23/2024 1:03:47 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: CFW

another idiot


3 posted on 06/23/2024 1:04:59 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: CFW

How are they Ralph?
They taste like, burning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ-M0N22o08


4 posted on 06/23/2024 1:06:30 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: cyclotic

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.


5 posted on 06/23/2024 1:12:34 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: cyclotic

MSP?


6 posted on 06/23/2024 1:22:23 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

... a three-hour trip. At least he wasn’t on the Minnow.


7 posted on 06/23/2024 1:24:20 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: cyclotic
compass might have helped…and a whistle

Or an iPhone with satellite texting. First model was the 14.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/i-saw-iphones-most-underrated-ios-18-feature-we-should-be-talking-about-it-more/

8 posted on 06/23/2024 1:36:54 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: CFW

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.


9 posted on 06/23/2024 1:37:36 PM PDT by Tom in SFCA
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Well said. It's humbling. This guy survived 10 days in the woods with little to nothing.

He looks pretty rough in this pic as one might expect although I was surprised a bit about the ashen look to his face.


10 posted on 06/23/2024 1:40:35 PM PDT by plain talk
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Glad this 3-hour tour didn’t turn out like Gilligan’s 3-hour tour


11 posted on 06/23/2024 1:41:19 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: plain talk

He looks blue. Maybe overdid the colloidal silver?


12 posted on 06/23/2024 1:44:12 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: CFW

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.


13 posted on 06/23/2024 1:44:17 PM PDT by Axenolith (Here... Hold my beer and check this out...)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Ahahaha, posted something akin, should’ve read mpore posts first :D


14 posted on 06/23/2024 1:46:30 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: plain talk

Mud to ward off mosquitoes?


15 posted on 06/23/2024 2:15:35 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: Tom in SFCA

Why wouldn’t you look around and see a light and head for that?


16 posted on 06/23/2024 2:17:20 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: Tom in SFCA

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.


17 posted on 06/23/2024 2:20:54 PM PDT by oldplayer
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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


18 posted on 06/23/2024 2:21:31 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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> McClish headed out for a three-hour hike… <

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.


19 posted on 06/23/2024 2:22:27 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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“Mud to ward off mosquitoes?”

Yeah. makes sense. He went native. Don’t blame him.


20 posted on 06/23/2024 2:28:33 PM PDT by plain talk
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