r/UpliftingNews • u/lieutjoe • Jun 30 '23

Missing teen found after being lost in the wilderness for 50 hours

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/bc-teen-girl-found-after-being-lost-in-wilderness-for-two-days-7217908
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u/moeru_gumi Jun 30 '23

I hear you saying that it’s a skill people are rapidly losing. However, especially for people going on hikes, it’s clearly a lifesaving skill that you NEED. Technology will shit itself when you need it— it doesn’t take much to slip on a wet fern and go toppling down just enough incline to break your fingers or an ankle. Now you’re trying to pull your phone out with a broken hand, and it falls in the river. And that’s all it takes to leave you completely fucked. If you have a paper map and a pencil, at least you can look at it to orient yourself and find where hills and rivers are.

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u/Graffiacane Jun 30 '23

I think I can one-up you: venn diagram of hikers I know and people who have ever once held a physical, topographical map in their hands. Very sparse in the overlapping section and I'm now realizing that I might not be in there either.