When he was stuck he should have stayed with the car and used it as a shelter. He could have built a lean-to shelter and most of all should have built a fire. With a fire he could have easily survived a week with any food at all.
Hooray!!!
Captain Obious to the rescue!
Dear Captain:
You missed a couple of points, but no matter. You have as ususal solved the problem.
First, no one has bad mouthed the men on the ground. Or in the choppers.
The problem was with the 911 operator who totally ignored the only really valid clue, unless there were others that were not reported.
One could also criticize the chain of command for allowing a person of such limited judgement to be at a critical station.
As for following logging trails in a circle, again you are uninformed. I read that reports from the people that tracked him were to the effect that he had traversed terain so steep and so rough that they had to use climbing gear to traverse some of the same ground safely.
The bottom line still is that if the woman, whose name escapes me at the moment, had done her job or if the guy who saw the tracks had been more agressive and ranted until someone followed the tire tracks, the outcome would have been different.
Sara Rubrecht, the emergency services coordinator with neighboring Josephine County is the person in question I believe.
Don't know how you do it WB...I just couldn't muster the energy to once again post a response to Bray - like a bad nickle that keeps coming back.
Bray do you think we are winning in Iraq as well?