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forest gnome
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Agreed....interesting to hear he did have some gear....& it sounds like he kept a cool head...didn't keep plunging further afield...
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philfort
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 Wed Jun 30, 2021 4:33 pm |
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Don't think I've ever seen acorns/oaks there. Weird. The story still doesn't make any sense to me.
It was also mentioned here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/hiker-overcame-mental-hurdles-survive-days-missing-wilderness/story?id=78533463&cid=social_twitter_wnt
| Quote: | | He climbed a tree and spotted acorns, which he figured noted a trail. |
He spotted acorns in the tree he climbed? Why would that indicate a trail? Oh wait no in the kiro interview he said it was an "acorned trail". So he climbed a tree and saw acorns far down on the ground, and assumed that indicated a trail?
New Cascades survivial tip for when you're lost: climb trees and try to look for acorns.
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flatsqwerl
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He was probably just avoiding a wedding...
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kitya
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kitya
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Wed Jun 30, 2021 4:59 pm |
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It is probably just a typo for "cairns", oak trees do not grow in conifer mountain forest and are pretty rare around here, sadly. If you spent so many days lost, you will also probably say lots of wrong words. It is really fortunate he got out safely.
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philfort
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philfort
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Wed Jun 30, 2021 5:25 pm |
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Good catch.
Maybe he told the rescuers he'd found a pile of rocks, and they were like "a cairn?". And from then on he thought they were called acairns/acorns, and the incredible journalists at kiro didn't question it.
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Mike Collins
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The reporter likely typed acirns instead of cairns and his computer autocorrected the word entered as acorns. But much more importantly is that he is back home safely with the ones who love him. Would that all of these searches end in such a way.
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fjoro
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| forest gnome wrote: | | Gawd I'm really getting tired of these overly sensitive people here who can miss read the typing on a thread |
LOL.
How would Horatio Alger have handled this situation?
How would Horatio Alger have handled this situation?
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Mike Collins
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I just saw the hiker on TV. He definitely says “acorns”. I think he meant “cairns” but either isn’t adept with the word usage yet and it came out “acorns” or he is still a little ketotic from his starvation diet and not mentally nimble. Again we should all rejoice that he is with us. In August I was asked to be a member of a recovery team. The family of the missing person has sadness and uncertainty shrink wrapped around them. When someone walks back to their family it is a success story.
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zimmertr
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ChanceShowers
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re acorns: I think you're overthinking this, by assuming that the good fellow knows an acorn from tiny pinecones...OR that he didn't just misspeak, and that that's what wound up in the broadcast.
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pula58
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Thu Jul 01, 2021 10:27 am |
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I just don't see how one could get lost while hiking on a well-traveled trail. Old fishermans paths, that I'd understand..old abandoned non-maintained trails..I can understand..but Middle fork trail? I wish there was more info on HOW he got lost. Glad he's safe. In his interview he says he wants to join SAR - that is awesome!
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Kim Brown
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He was on the way towards Pratt, according to the article (it says Pratt River trail). In several locations he would have to exit the RR grade and work his way around a washout.
In any case, the man was out for several days and lived to tell the tale. That may have done me, or any one of us in.
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ChanceShowers
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Are you sure that's the trail he was on? (the Middle Fork Trail)
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philfort
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philfort
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Thu Jul 01, 2021 10:44 am |
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He could have been making his way to the Pratt River, or could have been Stegosaurus Butte... or Rainy Lake. That whole section along the middle fork is called Pratt River Trail, and is about 3 miles of trail before the actual Pratt River.
The article mentions "a 3 mile hike" and "getting to the top".
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pula58
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Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:02 am |
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Oh, it was the Pratt River trail?
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