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Interesting, I've always heard you're supposed to stay in one place to make it easier to be found. (So you don't wander off to a place that was already searched
by mcbits 10y ago
Interesting, I've always heard you're supposed to stay in one place to make it easier to be found. (So you don't wander off to a place that was already searched.)
- zyxley 10y agoSince at least the 40s, the advice of the US Forest Service has been to travel downhill, remaining in place if injured or there's nowhere further downhill to go: http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5435268.pdf http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb543526...
- PuffinBlue 10y agoWhich seems to be the opposite of the modern instinct to get high and get a mobile phone signal.
- whamlastxmas 10y agoMy entire life I have heard the advice to simply stay put if lost. Moving anymore just puts you farther off track. Even reading the linked article, I think I'd still just stay put.
- xofer 10y agoThis works if you know you're lost, know that someone will be looking for you and aren't too hard to find. Most people who are lost don't meet these criteria. Because she was an experienced hiker, I'm guessing they thought she was immobile (injury, heart attack, etc.) and this would mean she'd be in a place she would have gone if she wasn't lost.