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.
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.
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