Posted on 03/05/2023 6:55:28 PM PST by CFW
Two 17-year-old boys are lucky to be alive after getting stranded in a snowstorm during a multi-day hike on a mountain trail in Southern California last week, authorities said.
Riley Ramirez, of Cyprus, California, and Cole White, of Portland, Oregon, were on a 10-day trek on the Pacific Crest Trail near the San Gorgonio Mountains when the severe weather dumped feet of snow in the mountains and left them unable to contact help, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.
After losing contact with the teens, Ramirez’s father, Cesar Ramirez, told The Associated Press that he called the sheriff’s office for help.
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"Cesar Ramirez described the teens as avid hikers who were well-supplied for their trek with food, a tent and snowshoes. He said they had extensive training and aspired to join the military."
Being prepared and knowledgeable was the key to their survival. Too many teens just take off on a lark with no idea of what to expect and without understanding that there may be no cell reception, definitely no recharging stations for phones, nor is food delivery services available.
Thank God for global warming or it would have been really cold and snowy.
(Glad they survived)
I went to San Gorgonio HS in Highland. That mountain is gorgeous but it can be deadly.
From Catherine Bach (married to Ringo Starr) in The Spy Who Loved Me
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I have a 1 foot section of railroad track from Donner pass.
hopefully I will never have to use it again.
Haha you beat me to it. My thoughts exactly.
The boys were prepared for a 10-day mountain hike so they were extremely well prepared and even had snowshoes, so their survival should have been a sure thing if they were older and more experienced, but 17 is very young and very inexperienced for serious emergencies, and there could have been gaps in their preparations and in their judgment of how to handle things and deal with the extreme cold and weather, and snow and time.
As it is the boys did well enough to survive so now they have this under their belt and had a good learning experience, with their intense interest in this activity, they will probably gain some real knowledge from it and from their future reading on winter camping and hiking.
I would rather die than spoon nuts to butts in the cold. That is just me though.
Can’t criticize too much, they were prepared. BUT!
Preparation also includes checking the weather forecast.
Wasn’t this monster blizzard forecast for about a week or so ahead of time? Maybe the best thing they could have done was take a rain check. (Or a snow check anyway)
I don’t know, without TV I don’t watch any weather reports and weather news stories so I don’t really know much about what has been going on there except the general knowledge that a lot of snow fell in parts of California.
Barbara bach???
Yes.
Bio:
Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey is an American actress and model. She played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. She is married to former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
Terribly sorry I typed catherine (from the Dukes.)
BARBARA was right.
Apology.
OK, you officially lost me on that one, LOL
17 isn’t that young and sounds like they had experience.
Now they have more.
Judgment and experience at 17 is very young, ask adventurers how many errors they made or were capable of at 17 that they would not even come close to at age 30.
Give those boys a year or two or more to digest this experience and do some continued reading and thinking on it, and I bet they would do a lot of it very differently, including the preparations and gear they would take.
I can’t imagine a 17-year-old backpacker who won’t have made a lot of changes in his gear and what he carries as he continues his hobby.
“Preparation also includes checking the weather forecast.”
^^This. Their failure to heed weather reports for a personal hike could have put rescuers in harms way. Glad that no one was injured.
Their judgement and experience couldn’t have been to bad they survive. It sound like without major injuries.
Nothing in my posts said or indicated otherwise.
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