08-11-2009, 09:20 PM
40+ years ago while on a Boy Scout camping trip in the Sierras, one of the scouts wandered off on his own, against troop policy to always, ALWAYS travel in at least pairs, and after no one had seen or heard from him in awhile, we started searching for him. I found some bloody hand/finger scrape prints on the side of the hill, and feared the worst; so we immediately sent a couple of kids back to get the adults, and contact the rangers, while we yelled the missing scout's name, hoping for a response. The missing scout was found dead a few hundred feet below the scrape marks. Needless to say, the camping trip was cut short, and the school yearbook was dedicated to the fallen scout at year's end. Best guess was that the kid suffered from vertigo, as there were scrapes on the uphill side of the path, and then some more gnarly looking ones just below the path on the downhill side. These stories are always heart wrenching, and it is truly a matter of always being as careful as possible to avoid having your number drawn prematurely, especially when checking the true beauty our planet has to offer.
cbelt3 & 3d... since Maslow & Darwin are mentioned in the same thread; a moderately interesting sub-note is in the 1970's I dated direct descendants of both (and would bet both are grandmothers now).
cbelt3 & 3d... since Maslow & Darwin are mentioned in the same thread; a moderately interesting sub-note is in the 1970's I dated direct descendants of both (and would bet both are grandmothers now).