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As i tried to imply, when i recreate, I do not necessarily go into the woods to make my navigatiuon travel easy and fast. My enjoyment and pleasure of being there comes from testing myself old school with traditional navigation methods, making the inevitable mistakes, learning from them, and...

Day Trip is correct (with bold emphasis added by me). I'll come at the problem from two directions. I have self taught myself and practiced precision navigation methods beginning more than fifty years ago, beginning with what my father taught me as a young boy while hunting with him in...

I can confirm this is true of SAR volunteers in NY as well. Team members must take a training course by the NYSDEC which includes the admonition to not release any information we may have unofficially. I have been followed by the press right up to my initial entry into the beginning of my...

i don't know if this applies to this particular case or not, but there is an effect called "paradoxical undressing" that may manifest during the latter stages of hyperthermia. I have been on a number of wilderness SAR incidents where the person was found by following a trail of discarded...

i spent two days searching on Whiteface with my SAR team. I am not a downhill skier, so this was quite a unique experience for me to get a free Whiteface lift ticket. I met his wife and chidren and fellow firefighter team members at the lodge. How sad and confused they were. They had no idea...

And so it repeats..... whether true in this specific incident case or not.... I can't tell. you how many NY Adirondack search rescue reports I have read where after being found (if they are lucky) the subject says: "but my phone doubles as a flashlight". Right. It also doubles as a dead...

For many years, and even recently, Campmor has sponsored not one, but two 28' voyageur canoes in the annual Adiorndack 90 mile canoe race.

I first joined REI in the early 1970's (for a $10 on- time lifetime membership fee then - yes, I am a dinosaur). Each catalog was filled with useful ourdoor information, not just on their products, but also on general advice. Each member of the board wrote an article on their recent adventures...

I agree with Mike P. If the subject was not aware enough know how to. use and bring proper gear in the first place (map and compass, etc.), then dropping those items is a waste of resources and time. Education and experience goes both ways. Regarding Drones.... I was crew boss of an Adirodack...

The center line passes right over my brother's camp on the edge of Lake Ontario near Watertown NY. It next passes directly over my daughter's home near Plattsburgh. Too bad I can't travel 1000 mph to be with both. Based on my experiences during previous solar eclipses going back to my first...

D Dasy, I am not familiar with the case and do not do FB either, but I can speak from many years of experience in SAR in NY State and the Adirondacks. Do you know when officials were first notified? Too often it is late in the day, after friends and family unsuccessfully run haphazardly for...

Another important cause for delay is ego. I can't tell you how many SAR incidents I have been on when some guy goes missing, perhaps a hunter who did not come out to meet his partners when and where they thought he should have. Usually family members are involved. They begin to conduct their...

Absolutely true. As a matter of fact, trained SAR teams get very little to no business these days. At least in NY, Forest Rangers are dispatched and reach the scene and the subject so quickly that there is no need for outside experienced assistance. Teams are falling apart and losing members...

I visited Scotdland in the spring of 2016 for a week with my wife and son and grandkids. What a wonderful place. Most impressed with many castles (saw the actual sword used by Willam Wallce/Braveheart) and toured the ill famed Culloden battlefield. The kids actually saw (sort of, they thought)...

I believe I paid $10 in 1970. REI was a much different customer experience from the company back then. The frequent catalogs had pages and pages of useful technical information along with gear for sale and how to use it. The board members all wrote interesting stories of their adventures in...

That's Right, TCD :):rolleyes:

When my father began taking me hunting with him, he at first let me til along on his favored pathways. Decades before anyone could even spell GPS or iphone. Not on any trails at all, much more of a bushwhack all the way all day long. He knew where he was going and frequently pointed out to me...

I look at recreational wilderness travel in the opposite way. I consider a dedicated GPS (certainly not a cell phone) as the best/necessary tool for SAR and for canoe racing (primarily just for speed monitoring if on known routes). My goto primary navigation method is to use paper maps and...

A certain religous based group is well known for invading Adirondack trails with extremely large groups with little demonstrated knowledge or care for LNT principles. They have been ticketed in the past for such activity, but have learned to keep their announcements quiet. It doesn't always work...