Posted on 11/28/2024 5:48:08 PM PST by CFW
A missing 20-year-old hiker has been found after he disappeared for over 50 days in the Rockies.
Sam Benastick was reported missing on October 19 after he did not return from a 10-day fishing and hiking trip in Redfern-Keily Park in the northern Rocky Mountains, in Canada's British Columbia
With temperatures in the mountain region dropping to a bitterly cold -20C, authorities were forced to call off their search in late October.
But two workers who were heading down a trail on Tuesday spotted Benastick, recognising him as he walked towards them with two walking sticks and a cut-up sleeping bag wrapped around his legs for warmth.
After being taken to safety, he told cops that he initially stayed in his car for a few days, before walking to a creek near a mountain, where he camped for around two weeks.
After his time at the creek, he moved further down the valley and built a shelter in a creek bed.
Announcing his safe return to civilisation, his mother Sandra Crocker told hunters and fishers on a local Facebook group: 'Sam Benastick is alive, it's TRUE.
'Recovering in hospital. Complained he hadn't caught one fish. He will make recovery, just needs some time.'
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Being an avid outdoorsman, I'm sure he had developed some skills that helped him survive.
We are past Thanksgiving. He’s getting leftovers.
No he wont. Not catching a fish on a trip for that length of time damages a man in a way that never heals.
Got a friend like that. Always said you could drop him off anywhere and he’d survive
How nice for Mr. Benastick and his family. It seems like he pretty much had things under control
Always these reports of people not using the buddy system. Massively stupid.
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She’d be legend on Naked and Afraid.
He stayed for a few days in his car but they don’t say any, did his car breaks down? I suppose it did?
Glad he survived. The article is very lacking. One doesn’t live for two months with no food. He didn’t catch any fish. What did he survive on? If there is another story about this someplace that actually gives some facts please post it. Might save another life some day with the info.
I’m calling BS on the whole story.
Me too
Catching fish, for instance?
He was said he didn’t catch any fish.
Had he been on a job at at a fish company he might have been working for scale.
🐟🐟🐟🐟
I’m thinking he did have a buddy to survive that long.
Didn’t catch any fish huh? Ahhhh, to be twenty again.
In the Navy, August 1975, I was 21, an E-4, about 15 days from discharge, I wrecked my buddies 650 Bonneville on a rural SC road right next to a tobacco field goin about 60 mph in heavy traffic outside of Lake City. Imagine a rag doll flippin’ and floppin’ down the road for about 20 secs at high speed. It’s amazing the number of thoughts that go through your head in that short amount of time.
First, I was thinking horrific panic thoughts that I was about to die and then I thought, over and over, “Get off the road when you stop flopping, get off the road when you stop flopping”. As soon as I stopped, I dove onto the shoulder of the road. I was pretty torn up but could walk.
I walked over to the bike, reached down and turned it off and just stumbled around for a bit until all the people who had witnessed it (like 30-40 of them) got out of their cars and said, “I think you better sit down” and guided my way to my dirt seat.
Ambulance came, took me to the county hospital and some nice lookin nurses began scrubbing the asphalt out of my back and ass. About 2 secs into that I said “No, no, no we ain’t doin that!” They shot me up with some Demerol and I went into La La land.
The Navy ambulance arrived, and I barely remember the 50-mile ride to the Charleston Naval Hospital. Got wheeled on a gurney into the emergency room. About 10 mins later the doctor came in and started cursing at me about how stupid I was for being so reckless riding a “murdercyle” as he called it.
Right then I knew I wasn’t gonna die and I wasn’t injured too badly. The doc (An officer) knew that already before he came in of course and took the opportunity to add many insults to my injuries and there ended his lesson. I remember that like it was this morning.
My buddy had insurance, so he did ok with it.
RE: Not catching a fish on a trip for that length of time damages a man in a way that never heals.
How’s it goin’?
The fishin’s good but the catchin’ isn’t.
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Greeting card I saw with a man in fishing clothes on the front.
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day.
Teach a man how to fish
and he’ll sit in a boat drinking all day long.
The worst day of fishing still beats the best day of working. ☺☺
I can believe that.
My dad was a doc and he called them murdercycles too. He called their owners “organ donors”. He absolutely FORBADE any of us 6 kids from ever owning one......I’m 54 and the youngest and you know what? None of us have ever owned one. None of the nieces or nephews own one either.
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