Getting back to this thread's original story. A postscript of the last day of the search. One of the volunteers who helped ferry searchers across the Skeena River lost his truck and boat in the river. Judging by the comments on the news website, it nearly could of been much worse.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock