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The problem of the couple has nothing to do with how they navigated. They were simply irrationally incompetent as human beings. We can still however have joy at their survival. But we should not spend a lot of time worrying about those who behave irrationally.
Unfortunately we have to concern ourselves with people like these, though, as they make up an increasing percentage of the folks being rescued by SAR (on land) and the Coast Guard (at sea).
Wonder why they just didn't get some wood and put it under the tire get it unstuck usually just need a few feet in reverse to get the car out back up the way you came.
Wonder why they just didn't get some wood and put it under the tire get it unstuck usually just need a few feet in reverse to get the car out back up the way you came.
Some people believe man can control nature and over come its obstacles. Sounds like we have a few on here as well as in that story. The world is large and powerful enough to overcome an age when volcanos were more active than we can imagine. Its a big powerful world respect it and plan for the unexpected when leaving the urban environment our elites live in now
It makes my teeth grate to read the daily news sites praising this woman "triathlete who had taken survival courses" Well, she should demand a refund for that class. Drinking urine surrounded by snow?
The mother had taken survival classes and explained she had no way of melting snow and did not eat it because it would have accelerated hypothermia, which makes sense.
Despite him being a tech guru, they were using a paper map. Back in '06, GPS wasn't exactly prevalent anyway.
A lot of us remember them. I had a GPS then, and I wasn't exactly tech savvy. I also went out in the woods prepared for anything I could imagine might possibly go wrong.
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