Posted on 10/25/2021 5:35:17 PM PDT by algore
A hiker who was lost on a Colorado mountain for more than 24 hours ignored calls from the search and rescue team because they didn't recognize the phone number.
The hiker was reported missing to Lake County Search and Rescue around 8pm on October 18 after they failed to return from their morning hike on Mount Elbert.
Search and rescuers were informed that the hiker had begun at the South Trailhead at 9am that morning but hadn't returned to base 11 hours later.
The team then called the hiker several times to try to locate them but never got ahold of them.
Rescue teams spent the evening searching for the missing man and continued the search through to the next day, only to learn the hiker - who was completely unaware anyone was looking for him - had returned home safely at 9.30am that morning, on October 19.
The hiker, who has not been named, told authorities that they'd lost trail as the sunset and continued to search for the trail overnight.
They eventually found a path and walked along several trails until they finally found the way back to their car around 9am.
The hiker, who has not been named, told authorities that they'd lost trail as the sunset and continued to search for the trail overnight.
They eventually found a path and walked along several trails until they finally found the way back to their car around 9am.
If you’re overdue according to your itinerary, and you start getting repeated calls from an unknown number, please answer the phone; it may be a SAR team trying to confirm you’re safe!'
It would have saved two teams, of five and three rescue team members from spending hours scouring the mountainside after the hiker was reported lost on October 18.
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ADBP
They should bill the jaybird for search and rescue costs.
Didn’t want waste battery power on spam call.
I guess we're afraid of if the hiker identifies as being gender stoopid.
Obviously this person has some problems.
At least they got the pronouns right. I was so worried.
When faced with the choice of possible death in the wilderness, OR an unknown number and possible call from a Pakistani call center trying to sell me extended car warranty insurance...
I’ll take my chances in the wilderness.
We’ve been trying to reach you concerning your vehicle’s extended warranty.
That is a COVIDiot for you.
now wait a minute... how many are there?
Notice the use of pronouns... They, their and them.
I understand not wanting to answer a number you don’t recognize but if you can receive a call doesn’t that mean you can send a call?
Governments could easily crack down on spam and scam callers if they wanted to, but apparently that’s not something they care about. I get multiple such calls every day, and my numbers are all on the Do Not Call registry. I can’t blame the guy for not answering. Rescuers should have tried a text, too, though.
Telemarketers almost got him killed.
I guess I am old fashioned in that I only went hiking in the wilderness with a paper map in my possession.
A hiker = they. Who is the tard that flunked english and decided that journalism was a great career move to show off his illiteracy.
It was a woman no question
See she didn’t swipe right on tinder, and then gets this strange call
All to avoid hurting the feelings of imbeciles, whether they’re in the news or the dwindling segment of people who read it.
“The hiker, who has not been named,”
*spit*
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