The worst thing they did once they realized they were lost is to keep moving. It's human nature but the worst thing you can do. I'm not sure why they didn't build a signal fire once they reached the cabin; did they not have any means to build one or did it not occur to the them?
If they had STOPPED when they realized they were lost, they could have:
* Built a fire to boil water, and they would have had time to let it cool down and then boil more until they and all their water containers were full.
* Enlarged the fire and make it smoky as a marker signal.
* Reduced the cost of the search. If they had to pay for it, this would probably have been a consideration, wouldn't it?
But since it didn't occur to them to STOP, they didn't have time to boil water or create a signal fire.
NO TEA??? How awful! I couldn't do that. Just imagine how many lives have probably been saved simply because one person in the group simply insisted that they stop to build a fire and make tea before blundering onward in the wrong direction.
Sue
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