Lost Hiker

“Note: The location given in the report is wrong. Humpback Rocks is along the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Shenandoah.

Rescue Crews Search For Hiker In SNP

By A.R. SALZMAN
Daily News-Record

A hiker lost four to five hours in the southern part of Shenandoah National Park on the Appalachian Trail used a dying cell phone to call rescue service workers at about 11 p.m. Monday night, searchers and dispatchers said.

Workers from the Waynesboro and Wintergreen rescue squads, the Wilson volunteer fire department and a state police helicopter started searching for the man soon after the call, telling him to stay in one place to avoid further confusion.

The hiker, who was an older man, according to a Wintergreen official, was lost past Dripping Rock near Waynesboro. The hiker, who had sustained injuries to his face, had not eaten or had anything to drink all day, a dispatcher told rescue workers.

More than 15 rescuers made their way up trails from the visitors center at Humpback Rock to search for the man.

The hiker was able to transmit information via cell phone, but the connection was breaking up, the official said. Rescue workers were confident they would find the hiker before the sun came out Tuesday morning.”

“Sounds like a legitimate reason to pack a cell phone to me.”

“It's pretty hard to get lost along that section of linear trail. My guess is age might have been a factor, or else the injury. There should be a good cell tower close enough to get a clear signal, so his batteries must have gone low.

Second case of a cell phone saving the day (hopefully) in recent weeks.”

“Hope that wasn't the fellow I ran into on the AT near the Smokies about a month ago. He was heading north and was only making 5m a day.

It was hot that day and I didn't want to leave him because he didn't look so good. He shooed me away and said he'd be ok.

I'm guessing he was 65?”

“If he was only making 5 miles a day, no way he'd have gotten to Waynesboro in a month. Unless he caught a ride and leapfrogged.

With Shenandoah National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and Wintergreen all located right there, they get these situations all the time.

I used to report for the Waynesboro paper when it was a real paper.”

“the Waynesboro paper went the way of the Daily Regress huh? (Daily Regress - a nick name of a Charlottesville paper which in my opinion is not worth the crappy paper that it is printed on)”

“Both papers, and I use the term loosely, are still publishing. The Regress is still the Regress. The News-Virginian has not been the same after long-time hard-core editor Ed Berlin retired. He has since died, probably of heartbreak after he saw what happened to the paper after he left.
One copy I picked up had a front page story about a politician announcing a run for office. It was not until the last graf of the jump that they told you what office he was running for.
Ed would have eaten the culprit who wrote that for lunch.
Meanwhile, the Staunton Leader, which was a mere rag when I was down there, has become a respectable paper. They don't seem to get much wrong these days and have become as aggressive as we were when I was at the N-V.
It's all part of the corporate assimilation of the news business these days. The trashing of journalism!”

“Put the lead of the lead in the GD lead!

Journalism 101



(Evolution foiled by cell technology once more)”

“If the lost hiker is spock, screw em', leave him to die.”

“BB: LOL.. it ain't spock.. but I like the way you think!”

“So did they find him? Or is he a bear snack?”

“There was no follow-up in any of today's papers in the Valley, so either they found him or the reporter forgot to follow up.
Probably they found him and he's okay.”

“Stranded hiker survives 2 days by burning socks and cash

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/stranded-wa-hiker-survived-for-2-nights-by-burning-his-socks-cash/
There's video of an interview of the guy”

“Musta been a really small fire. I'm glad it worked out for him.”

“What ever happened to the woman lost in Bankhead Forest in Alabama?”

“CONWAY RESIDENTS RATTLED BY ORDNANCE DISPOSAL






January 19, 2012 - Posted in: News

Booms and blasts rocked residents of Faulkner County Thursday… many thinking it was the rumblings of an earthquake.

To find out what they were feeling, KARK contacted the Conway Fire Department who told us they were disposing of ordnances which are usually old pieces of military ammunition that people have found and called the department about.  Illegal explosives are disposed of as well..

The Conway City Fire Chief tells KARK they periodically do this.

Some of the blasts were felt as far away as Greenbrier.



via ArkansasMatters.com”

“Lol... Oh uhmmm, yeah nevermind”

“They found her the next day. http://www.whnt.com/whnt-woman-missing-in-bankhead-national-forest-20120115,0,1471805.story”

“Thanks Karo...
.sheesh...not much info...”

“Two campers and two climbers missing on Rainier.”

“Good that the snowshoer survived the night in the snow. Guess he didn't bring a little knife with him....with that he could've peeled some bark or cut some twigs for the fire.”

“Rainier is a big place when it all turns white. Seattle has lots of people with marginal skills.”