Just looking at them, it's a wonder they found their way out of their own front door! Old hippies in their element... the forst, which they ALSO have no clue about.
Posted on 02/06/2012 10:22:45 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
GOLD BEACH, Ore. (AP) — Dan Conne says he and his wife and son thought they were going to die after getting lost while picking mushrooms and spending nearly a week in the rugged forest of southwest Oregon.
They spent the nights huddled in a hollow log and considered sacrificing their pit bull, Jesse, for food.
"She's that good a dog, she'd have done it, too," Conne said.
But help finally arrived Saturday when a volunteer helicopter pilot decided to look outside the search area and spotted the family — Dan, his wife, Belinda, and their 25-year-old son, Michael — on the edge of a deep ravine in tall timber. The three were about 10 miles from the town of Gold Beach, roughly 330 miles south-southwest of Portland.
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I bet Jesse was thining the very same thing about Dan.
Just looking at them, it's a wonder they found their way out of their own front door! Old hippies in their element... the forst, which they ALSO have no clue about.
Correct. Once when camping at Russian Lake in Kenai in September, I was chosen to retrieve drinking water using a pump purifier. It was about dusk and I was 200 yrds and out of sight from the cabin as I pumped water from a creek into the bag. Every noise I heard was bear, every movement a rogue caribou. The only thing that kept me pumping was the Giardasis story we were told by our friends. He was hiking the Great Divide and got it, and was sick as dog in the woods for a week. His description of the symptoms far outweighed my fear of being hunched over a creek at dusk in Alaska madly pumping water into a bag..(when the last drop went into the bag I ran faster than Jesse Owens to the cabin, but slowed down at the treeline so no one would know how scared I was..)
Seriously, there are very few places you’re likely to be that you couldn’t pick a direction and walk to find a road. After that, pick a direction and hold out your thumb.
Maybe the reason they didn’t find any mushrooms was because it was the middle of winter, or is that when mushrooms grow in the NW? BTW the father and son look like gypsies.
LOL, : )
Oh, when we got to the cabin, there was a huge bear claw swipe impression on the door jamb where a bear had try to get in. Great fishing, great time, but it is not for the faint of heart. Folks like these were picking in the wrong season and in the wrong place; psylocibin grows in warm, moist, humid areas, usually in and around cowpies.
I mean I have heard that that is where thay grow...;)
My guess is that they had already smoked it.
Not to mention that they had edible mushrooms but were considering eating their dog.
This is the same general area where the Asian couple a few years ago used there GPS to cut cross country from I-5 to the coast and got stuck in the snow. I was raised where the pavement ends just off of what used to be Highway 99 and there wasn’t anything until you got near the ocean about 100 miles away. This area is still very remote with MJ growers and gold panners on BLM land about the only folks you’ll find.
“Maybe the reason they didn’t find any mushrooms was because it was the middle of winter,”
Some places, you can get oyster mushrooms in the winter, so it’s not impossible.
Hallucinogenic mushrooms, though, don’t pop up in winter. I think we are looking at their appearance and making judgements about their habits.
Many moons ago I took my wife and nine month old daughter backpacking overnight in the mountains of NM in the spring. Unexpected storm blew in and dumped six inches of snow. I decided it was too dangerous to try going back up the switchbacked trail to where we left the car, so instead we walked out 12 miles down the canyon to the NP headquarters.
It was uncomfortable at times, but not really dangerous at all.
When we got to the parking lot the SAR guys were organizing to go look for a lost family. We talked to them for a while before everybody realized they were heading out to look for us.
Turns out our friend had called in and said we were “lost with a baby in the wilderness and a blizzard.”
LOL
But then I would never have considered going out even by myself without appropriate equipment.
Left wing Marxist morons. Picking mushrooms and sleeping in a hollowed out log helps save the environment! It should have been utopia for the peace loving, tree hugging imbecils.
It’s Luann and Lucky!!!
They couldn't hear a passing car 300 yards away?
Made me laugh.
The people in this story are so stupid it hurts my brain.
My question is why didn’t they eat mushrooms?
Pit bull with sauteed mushrooms..mmmm
Agreed these folks are not the sharpest tools on the work bench. I’d bet they didn’t have even a pocket knife & book of matches between the lot of them . Let alone a “space blanket” or the knowledge to even set up a lean to shelter & start a camp fire . As for have a map sheet of were they were going & a compass that is obviously more than they could figure out how to use.
A buddy and I as stupid teens were hunting grouse in Northern Minnesota. Swampy area with “islands” of dry ground. Would hunt an island, get a grouse (or not), and then follow the flushed grouse over to the next island while walking through the swamp.
After half a day of this we realized we weren’t quite sure where we were. (Overcast fall day, everything was gray, chasing grouse in every direction...). We walked to where we thought we should go and came to the big powerline where we had parked the truck. Except we didn’t know which way to follow it! We both closed are eyes and pointed the direction we thought we should go. We opened our eyes and we were both pointing the same way.
We came out about two hours later at the truck - and very wet! I imagine that it would have only been about 2 hours to a road if we had walked the other direction as well.
Of course we had grouse to eat if we needed to!
They shouldn’t feel too bad, the Pit Bull probably thought about eating them, too. :)
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