He looks pretty rough in this pic as one might expect although I was surprised a bit about the ashen look to his face.
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?
Ten essentials are always good to have. He did well but maybe a MSP and compass might have helped…and a whistle
another idiot
... a three-hour trip. At least he wasn’t on the Minnow.
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.
He looks pretty rough in this pic as one might expect although I was surprised a bit about the ashen look to his face.
Glad this 3-hour tour didn’t turn out like Gilligan’s 3-hour tour
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.
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
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.
Couple things
Now that i’ve heard the story from a few other friends
He walked off with something called folding scissors?
Lame and everyone carries a knife
He had a flashlight for a daytime hike?
Experience hiker knowledge of the area only three hours?
Covered himself in mud?
I call bs
He was hiking with a bucket and Jill
I try to help people with no sense of direction to acclimate wherever they are. I point out things like ‘the coast, the big ocean is that way.’ West for some, East for others. Once you have East and West down, it becomes a little easier. The Sun always rises in the East and sets in the West. Most people will at least try to take this information in. Those that don’t just don’t want to know.
One day I was walking with a college classmate. The building was very large, with long hallways. We had walked most of the way to the end of the hallway when she announced that she was heading to the subway. We had been walking West, and the subway is to the East. As I pointed out that she would have to turn around and head back the way she came, she cursed, and asked just how I knew, how I oriented the world from inside a building. I told her that she could do the same thing. If we had kept walking West, we would have reached the ocean, so walking away from the ocean is heading East. By this time she was too frustrated to take in and actualize the information. I tried to smooth things over, stating not everyone has a sense of direction. Did not help much.
I wish there was more information about how he found water etc.
Thank God he was found alive. That was a long time to be lost and without proper gear and food.
At lest one meal and a qt of water .a lighter or some type of fire starter .