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WASHINGTON, D.C. January 21, 2017
Right about inaugural time, apparently.
Posted on 04/23/2019 3:02:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This occurred in Scottsdale. Pure Sonoran Desert. No Joshua trees there (limited to the Mojave Desert).
Photo at site confirms it’s saguaro country (Sonoran Desert).
Wow, what a story! Right out of an adventure novel. Preparation saved her life.
A little bit of trivia my father taught me when I was young and we would head out for some distant lake to camp and fish. Every two hundred yards or so, we’d stop, turn around and study the terrain. That way you’d recognize the objects that stood out. Simple trick that saved my bacon over the years - hiking, riding, jeeping.
re: “I’m surprised all these thousands of open, abandoned mines have been ignored for so many decades. “
The BLM or BOM (Whomever) are working to plug those adits, but, there areas so many in some area and they don’t catch them all. That, ans sometimes the stopes are worked clear-through to ‘daylight’ at the top of the mine.
There are a number of mine explorers on Youtube, it’s an education viewing their explorations ...
Wise.
“It seemed like Judy was saved. But just as she was waving her hands to get their attention, she stepped on some brush—and fell 30 feet below into an abandoned mine shaft. “
Man, i just HATE when that happens ...
She did find a complete backup of Hillary’s email wrapped in Obama’s birth certificate.
They hardly look like trees. I guess big plant = tree in J school.
Thanks for saving me time.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. January 21, 2017
Right about inaugural time, apparently.
I guess spray painting a big X on the ground, rocks or shrubbery every 20 feet or so is not a good idea. Is there a good way to mark a trail in tHe desert?
I had to re-read it to make sure I hadn't missed the exciting and intelligent way she got out. But nothing. Map, compass and cell phone. She followed the trail just fine on the way out but she blames getting lost on it not being marked. No one to blame but herself.
Yes. Phoenix is pure Sonoran Desert (saguaro) and Vegas is pure Mojave Desert (Joshua tree). The floral boundary between the two deserts is very noticeable on Highway 93 between Wickenburg (Sonoran) and Kingman (Mojave).
It’s a great stretch of road. At some point the saguaros peter out and the Joshua trees take over, but there’s a wonderful transition zone (I believe near Wikieup) that features JTs growing next to saguaros.
Beautiful to the botanist and non-botanist alike!
Even EMS get their noses stuck in their gps rather than look out the windshield. Six of us were out in the middle of the residential street waiting for the EMS. He arrived, in plain view, at the corner 3 houses down. We waved and hollered. He turned the other direction....
Yup. Some folks would find it boring. We enjoyed the heck out of it.
I think it was her guardian rattlesnake who saved her. The searchers heard the rattles shaking and the sound led them right to her!
Too many times these idiots risk the lives of rescuers.
Cairns.
I was taught the same thing. People look funny at me sometimes if they see me looking back, but I grew up hiking off trail in the Rincon Mountains east of Tucson. One kept an eye out for rattlesnakes, made certain you didn’t fall, and memorized the way back before you turned around.
I’m in my 60s now. Still like jogging in the desert. Still keep an eye out for rattlers, am careful not to fall, and sometimes stop and look at how it WILL look when I turn around and want to jog back!
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