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Lost?
Oct 5, 2007 22:07:10 GMT -5
Post by hawkeye on Oct 5, 2007 22:07:10 GMT -5
I'll bet all of you have heard this before, but it's worth repeating in case somebody hasn't.
Most of the time when you are lost STAY PUT! I hate to think how many times search and rescue teams (I was one, that's how I got my job as a cop) have found the original place where the person waited for help, then struck out on their own, circled around and died after walking 15 or 20 mile in circles.
If you do decide you need to walk, walk downhill, until you come to a creek, follow the creek, eventually the creek will run into a river or a road, follow it DOWNHILL! You now have a source of water (if you can boil it) and food (fish, frogs, crawdads) and rivers or roads always lead to traveled roads and civilization, DOWNHILL! They lead away from civilization UPHILL!
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Lost?
Oct 5, 2007 22:37:16 GMT -5
Post by huckleberry on Oct 5, 2007 22:37:16 GMT -5
while your doin the right thing....BY STAYIN PUT........make as much noise as ya can........clank rocks together.......scream often.....yell ......beat on a rock or a tree with anything metal if ya have it.....even a piece of wood works well...........or Sing as loud as ya can. Sound travels very well ....specially after dark when most everything else has setled down. If ya can get a fire goin and stay there!!!!!!!!!!!!
If ya do decide ya have to head out...mark your trail!!!!! In some way that anyone who finds it knows which direction ya are goin. Also helps if ya do happen to circle back on your self.
I have been on several searches...if folks had stayed put...or marked their trails we could have found them much sooner. Luckily...I have never found a body...they all made it out ok.
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Lost?
Oct 6, 2007 0:30:19 GMT -5
Post by hawkeye on Oct 6, 2007 0:30:19 GMT -5
That's right Huck. As soon as I started taking my grandchildren camping I gave them each a whistle. Not a platistic cracker Jack box whistle but a tin coaches whistle. If you can't see the roof of the tent you whistle. That's something I have in my survival gear, and on my boat!
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Lost?
Oct 9, 2007 11:35:30 GMT -5
Post by Earl8656 on Oct 9, 2007 11:35:30 GMT -5
in my small part of the world the best thing is to walk downhill as Hawk says, there is nowhere around here that walking downhill won't put you on a road, be it a fire road or state road, in 3-4 miles at most. A couple of my buddies got lost one foggy night and came off the wrong side of the mountain.....they had to walk 8 miles further to get back, but they did. they knew where they were when they got to the bottom, but they weren't gonna walk back up....lol.
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