California scout troop stumbles onto hiker lost in Sierra Nevada

San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Sep 3, 2025 | By Sam Mauhay-Moore, National Parks Reporter

[takebackaustin]

I like this Anceshntr guy.
In Engineering referred to as Murphy’s Law
In Aviation as “Always Leave Yourself an Out.”

[Cold Heart]

When everyone around you is in panic, screaming and yelling, and you are calm and collected, you truly do not understand the gravity of the situation:)

[Cold Heart]

“LOOKING AT THE TRAIL” I miss my horse, it was his job to look at the trail.

[packrat35]

Lots of bones still in the woods because of that...

[Freedom4US]

Better than dying in a bed, hooked up with tubes and hoses in every orifice and being tortured a few weeks by the “health care providers”, maybe?

He probably went solo because all his hiking buddies are all dead, or in a nursing home! That’s how I got into it, difficult to reliably find people crazy enough to do stuff like that, or at least find the time, schedule conflicts.

[Freedom4US]

Don’t go outside! Stay in your Basement! Stay Safe! Shelter In Place

[EVO X]

Don’t go outside! Stay in your Basement! Stay Safe! Shelter In Place

Stockton Rush had a similar pitch to lure clients to the Titan submersible which eventually imploded on a dive to the Titanic.

[Ranger LOL]

Get adobe and down load PDF files from USGS

[MayflowerMadam]

“on a two-week-long solo backpacking trip”

SOLO. Idiot.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well he got way more solitude than he expected.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Don’t scuba dive alone. Don’t remote backpack alone. Things can go bad real quick.

[ansel12]

For an experienced guy his mistake shows inexperience, but no matter what, long backpacks alone is a great pleasure.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yes, my first thought was this guy is an idiot. But even an experienced backpacker can get into trouble.

[ansel12]

But his seeking solitude on a long backpacking trip is normal for a male, we enjoy it.

[dfwgator]

If a man speaks in the woods, and his wife isn’t around to hear him, is he still wrong?

[1Old Pro]

But his seeking solitude on a long backpacking trip is normal for a male, we enjoy it.

You might enjoy it more with a female buddy :)

[ansel12]

That is why men fish and hunt, because females love doing that stuff with them for weeks at a time away from showers and toilets.

[Jumper]

I luv it!

[Georgia Girl 2]

Fortunately its a free country and we are all able to do any chancy thing we think of. 😏

[ansel12]

A lot of what men do routinely and normally is seen by females as risky and to be avoided, to men it is just life.