What? No map? No compass? No clue?

Hope I not being too hard on them (newspaper articles are famously inaccurate about anything connected to wildness), but it sounds like they went out without much in the way of the basics.

Good move on the Moose "blanket" (although the bear issue could have been very, very bad), but some basics like navigational gear might have prevented even one night in the bush.

HJ