So far, rescue workers say they’ve found some food scraps and part of Michael Auberry's mess kit.
I hate reading stories like this one. I hope he's OK.
He is twelve, so he should have some outdoor skills, but I am concerned that he would wander off without a buddy. And I am even more concerned that one boy would stay behind with one adult. They should all know better.
It shouldn't take more than a minute to get the answer to that quesiton.
Somebody's got some 'splaining to do. That violates BSA's two-deep leadership requirements for adults. Add that to the newspaper statement (if true) that is was not clear why the Scout and adult (apparently not the Scout's father) stayed behind and how the Scout disappeared with only two people in camp?
All that said, let's pray they find him soon.
'Waterboard' the adult that stayed with him. You'll find him pronto.
I thought scouting rules are that no adult is to be alone with a scout.
Another missing kid article
Prayers up. Arms out to the family.
Prayers that he be found quickly.
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I hope he is well dressed for the cold and has good survival skills. It's been freezing in this region last couple of days especially with the wind.
Oh, dear. Twelve is old enough to know better, but young enough to forget everything he's been taught.
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Scouts! All Scouts in the Area! Rally to help!
The rest of us PRAY!
Prayers for the young man's safety.
So far, rescue workers say they’ve found some food scraps and part of Michael Auberry's mess kit.
"We're really hopeful," his father, Kent Auberry, told the Winston-Salem Journal.
Auberry cried while describing a spot searchers had found where it appeared someone had sat on a rock and drawn in the dirt with a stick.
He said his son has been a Scout for about a year and has a first-class rank.
Searchers were moving off the trail and into rugged terrain Sunday afternoon and were expected to suspend the search when night fell because of the risks involved, Bauer said.
The boy was wearing pants, a shirt and a coat. The Sunday afternoon temperature at Mount Airy, about 25 miles northeast of Traphill in northwest North Carolina, was in the low 40s, the National Weather Service said.
Stone Mountain State Park covers nearly 13,750 acres.
Search crews included volunteer firefighters, National Park Service staff and rescue squads from the state park system and Alleghany and Wilkes counties. A Highway Patrol helicopter equipped with an infrared sensor that can detect body heat was sent to assist the search.
Of all the places to get lost you don't want it to be Alleghany County in the winter. Hope he found some kind of shelter. It was very cold last night.
Praying for his well being.
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Frankly, folks, you could just as easily call the "youth protection" rules "adult protection". One adult can be left with more than one Scout, but not with just one Scout unless that Scout is his or her child (or there's a legal guardian relationship). That provides obvious protection for the Scouts, but it also gives the adult a witness in case the Scout makes a false accusation because he is angry that the Scouter refused to let him carry the 10" sheath knife his Dad gave him or backed up the Patrol Leader when it was the Scout's turn to clean up the spaghetti pot last night and he tried to duck out on it.
Children often have no sense of proportion. They don't have an appreciation of the long-term effects of their actions and have no clue what a thoughtless accusation made in anger can have on an adult. This can be especially true of a child that has led a somewhat privileged and indulged life. I've had a few, and they get pretty unreasonable when they find themselves in an environment where there are actual rules that are enforced by punishment if you violate them; where "no" means "no" and no amount of wheedling will get around it.
If the adult was not one of the boy's parents, that is a MAJOR breach of the Boy Scout rules! There are ALWAYS supposed to be at least two adults when a lone boy is present; for the boy's protection.
Not much for suing unless valid, but if anything happened to the kid, they better sue the crap out of them. So many wrong moves on so many people.