BenedictGomez
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It was on FoxNews. They interviewed some police dude from Maine. Apparently the snowpack in the area was about 4.5 to 5 feet, so building a snowcave was probably pretty easy.
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Teen lost at Sugarloaf
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It was on FoxNews. They interviewed some police dude from Maine. Apparently the snowpack in the area was about 4.5 to 5 feet, so building a snowcave was probably pretty easy.
David Metsky
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Roughly 20 meters, so it's not going to help find anyone lost on a mountain. While billed as a safety device, it's really a body recovery tool.
ScottySkis
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He is found awesome to hear this.
o3jeff
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loafasaur
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WMTW has quite a bit of detail. Looks like once this kid realized he was lost he REALLY kept his cool. Built a snow cave and stayed in it 2 nights. He stayed put waiting to be rescued. He didn't get sweaty and exhausted--probably saved his own life that way. One infers that he made excursions from his cave looking for a way out but made staying put a priority. He eventually found snowshoe tracks near his cave and followed them to Caribou Pond Rd.
http://www.wmtw.com/news/maine/Snow...loaf/-/8792012/19165184/-/ncs65q/-/index.html
Sounds like a searcher came real close without finding him. Airhorns, maybe?
Wonderful ending to a grim story.
http://www.wmtw.com/news/maine/Snow...loaf/-/8792012/19165184/-/ncs65q/-/index.html
Sounds like a searcher came real close without finding him. Airhorns, maybe?
Wonderful ending to a grim story.
SIKSKIER
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I have a whistle in my jacket and actually,a much louder one with my fingers.
billski
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Sales and marketing "feature".
Impress you friends status symbol when you can't afford Bogner
billski
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I was in a situation last year when a hiking party accidentally split into two. Both sides were whistling, neither heard the other. They were on opposite sides of a 70' high hill.
riverc0il
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Many regularly priced jackets have them built in, it isn't an optional feature. Mine has one. Quite frankly, I wish it wasn't there but what ev's.
Bene288
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From what I've read they deploy an aerial signal from a helicopter and it's supposed to bounce back an give a general idea of where the sensor is located. It's a passive sensor, meaning it doesn't need a battery.
Really glad the found the kid.
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I really thought this was going to end badly. Teenagers aren't exactly known for keeping their cool and making great decisions but this kid is a case study on what to do after you get lost. I'm really glad for his family and hope ALOT of people hear his story so that it gets drilled into their heads:
Even though your instinct is to search and search and search for a way out... Most of the time after you get hopelessly lost your best bet at survival is securing water and shelter and staying put until conditions improve or searchers locate you.
Even though your instinct is to search and search and search for a way out... Most of the time after you get hopelessly lost your best bet at survival is securing water and shelter and staying put until conditions improve or searchers locate you.
billski
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The sad thing is that he had learned these techniques through reality TV. It's too bad they won't pay attention to real training. I guess that's the way to do it. Embed the knowledge into their heads without them even knowing it.
It's too bad you can't get them to stop making bad decision to begin with.
It's too bad you can't get them to stop making bad decision to begin with.
From what I've heard it sounds like this kid made an honest mistake and did not realize, until it was too late, that he had followed a set of tracks out of bounds. I could be wrong, or there may be more recent info, but the Wardens made it sound like he was not clearly in the wrong here or intentionally riding out of bounds, which is in contrast to the many other folks that we have been discussing this year who knowingly went out of bounds (past obvious signs and fences) and got in over their heads.
I'm willing to bet that Sugarloaf ski patrol will be going along that boundary now and checking their markers/signage in order to prevent other folks from doing the same thing.
Smellytele
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Well he was skiing in trees/woods/glades alone which is a mistake.
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3 in the trees
gmcunni
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A little surprised that a 17 YO didn't have a cellphone on him.
BenedictGomez
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You sure he didnt? May not have been any signal up in Maine.
