Posted on 03/03/2019 2:54:47 PM PST by Mariner
(AP) -- Armed with some outdoor survival training, granola bars and pink rubber boots, 5- and 8-year-old sisters survived 44 hours in rugged Northern California wilderness before they were found dehydrated and cold but in good spirits on Sunday, authorities said.
A fire chief and firefighter from a local volunteer department found Leia and Caroline Carrico in a wooded area about 1½ miles (2.3 kilometers) from their home in the small community of Benbow, where they had last been seen Friday afternoon, Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said.
Benbow is about 200 miles (320 kilometers) northwest of Sacramento.
The girls were "safe and sound" and uninjured, thanks in part to survival training they got with their local 4-H club, Honsal said.
"This is an absolute miracle," he said. "This is rugged territory, this is an extreme environment. How they were out there for 44 hours is pretty amazing."
A photo of one of the girls posted by the sheriff's office and already being widely shared on social media shows her wearing pink rubber boots, dirty jeans, a long pink shirt and a woolen cap. She is standing while a firefighter kneels down and talks to her.
One person commented that "she looks like a seasoned outdoor gal" while another said, "those little adventurers will sure have a story to tell!"
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This is the Lost Coast Wilderness, as far as you can get from civilization ANYWHERE on the West Coast. It takes 6 hours to drive there...from anywhere.
And Mountain Lion country.
Somebody taught these little girls well. There are dozens on this site that would not have survived it.
Great News.
How many bears looked after them in the woods?
Yesterday afternoon a skier was killed in a slide on the west side of the Bridger Range at the top of Truman Gulch on a run called St. Lawrence.
The skier was travelling solo and a separate party of two, skinning uphill, witnessed him triggering the slide and getting swept downhill.
They responded swiftly, got a beacon signal and saw his hand sticking out of the snow. The dug him up and did CPR, but the skier never revived. He was carried approximately 1,000 feet vertical down a steep slope causing fatal trauma.
The skier was a well known and loved local and we are deeply saddened to report this tragic accident. In the coming days we will release a full accident report.
Unfortunately, because of the dangerous avalanche conditions we cannot investigate the site. Preliminary information and photos.
See Bozeman Chronicle or Friends of Gallatin National Forest National Avalanche Center.
This may be a duplicate post or just done wrong...been sick as a dog and can barely remember how to type.
Amazing girls!
Maybe
But more likely well fed Coyotes.
Most bears are still in their hole.
But there’s no doubt they found shelter and warmth.
Or made it.
They stayed dry or they would not have lived.
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Are GPS locator beacons expensive?I would want one on each member of the family.
Those little girls surely had guardian angels....
....I am overjoyed to read this happy news
“Arguably the premier marijuana growing spot in the United States”
Only if you measure by quantity.
The Central Valley would be better but there’s no place to hide.
Hobbyist grows in the Valley are approaching 30% cannabinoids by dry weight. All organic, no chemicals.
A boy who was lost in the woods says a bear kept him company. No one can prove it didn’t happen.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3724793/posts
I'd bet a donut that staying dry was a big part of their 4-H training.
Parents are smart and great. They prepared these girls to take of themselves if such an event came up. No snowflakes or unicorns in this group.
In another news item, it said that the girls even tried to start a fire to keep warm. Now that's good training. However, we've had lots of rain yesterday and today in Northern California, not easy finding dry kindling to start a fire.
“No snowflakes or unicorns in this group.”
Probably hippy, “farmers”.
After their family hugs them to pieces, gets them cleaned/warmed up, and fed, they should be in for some major (non-corporal) discipline.
Saw this story and immediately thought the worst. Thank God.
I’ve been watching this story locally and am relieved to see they found them.
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