#161209 - 01/04/09 02:52 AM
How can you get yourself found after you got lost?
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 12/18/08
Posts: 1534
Loc: Muskoka
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If you were stranded/lost in the great dark forest what would you do to attract the attention of Search and Rescue teams?
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#161217 - 01/04/09 03:25 AM
Re: How can you get yourself found after you got lost?
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Registered: 05/06/04
Posts: 604
Loc: Manhattan
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Step one, sit down brew tea.
Step two, determine if I am in fact lost.
Step three, attempt contact with cellphone and HAM radio.
Step four, determine if there's an area with in fifty meters or so where visibility will be significantly better.
Step five, put on reflective vest (or hang it some place high and conspicuous) and place whistle and signal mirror with in easy reach.
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A gentleman should always be able to break his fast in the manner of a gentleman where so ever he may find himself.--Good Omens
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#161218 - 01/04/09 03:47 AM
Re: How can you get yourself found after you got lost?
[Re: AROTC]
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Registered: 08/19/03
Posts: 1371
Loc: Queens, New York City
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Step one, sit down brew tea.
Step two, determine if I am in fact lost.
Step three, attempt contact with cellphone and HAM radio.
Step four, determine if there's an area with in fifty meters or so where visibility will be significantly better.
Step five, put on reflective vest (or hang it some place high and conspicuous) and place whistle and signal mirror with in easy reach. You missed a step - DRINK TEA
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#161221 - 01/04/09 03:59 AM
Re: How can you get yourself found after you got l
[Re: scafool]
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Registered: 11/01/08
Posts: 1530
Loc: DFW, Texas
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1) Cell Phone
2) Mobile Radio
3) SMS Text
4) Signal Fires Hopefully NOT forrest fire
5) Signal Mirror & Whistle
6) Signal Panel (VS14)
7) Start crawling
Edited by Desperado (01/04/09 06:12 AM)
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#161236 - 01/04/09 06:58 AM
Re: How can you get yourself found after you got lost?
[Re: scafool]
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Cranky Geek
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/08/05
Posts: 4642
Loc: Vermont
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"dark" implies night
first thing, wait until morning- unless I call in a medical emergency, I'm waiting until then anyway
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#161238 - 01/04/09 07:10 AM
Re: How can you get yourself found after you got lost?
[Re: ironraven]
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Registered: 05/17/04
Posts: 215
Loc: N.Cal.
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If safe I would use one of the 4 Whistling Pete's that I save from 4th of July.
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#161240 - 01/04/09 10:39 AM
Re: How can you get yourself found after you got lost?
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Registered: 11/13/07
Posts: 471
Loc: London England
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In one survival situation a fellow came across a telegraph pole and realised he could burn it down and someone would come to fix it.
The Sock
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#161253 - 01/04/09 03:23 PM
Re: How can you get yourself found after you got l
[Re: TheSock]
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Old Hand
Registered: 03/19/05
Posts: 1182
Loc: Channeled Scablands
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Try to attract searches using their senses? here are some I can think of.
Sight-
flashlight, cell phone light, fire, bright clothes, messages left with cairns,
signal mirror, movement (waving), messages stamped in snow, items
left nearby (candy wrappers etc.), flares, email, smoke, footprints or ski
tracks.
Sound-
whistle, shouting, gunfire, car horn, cell phone, radio
Smell-"When I saw the flies, I knew I had found him"
smoke, decomposition, leave fecal material (this has happened on a search)
Other-
various beacons
Edited by clearwater (01/04/09 03:23 PM)
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#161259 - 01/04/09 03:55 PM
Re: How can you get yourself found after you got l
[Re: clearwater]
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Veteran
Registered: 11/01/08
Posts: 1530
Loc: DFW, Texas
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Smell-"When I saw the flies, I knew I had found him"
I really want to be found before the flies become an issue. All the folks I have found "via flies" didn't have a happy outcome.
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I do the things that I must, and really regret, are unfortunately necessary.
RIP OBG
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#161267 - 01/04/09 04:16 PM
Re: How can you get yourself found after you got l
[Re: Desperado]
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Old Hand
Registered: 03/19/05
Posts: 1182
Loc: Channeled Scablands
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I can't think of any for touch or taste yet.
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