Lessons learned from the Oregon tragedy

On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 19:41:10 -0800, in ,
karl gruber wrote:
But how did he end up in the river?

Maybe he figured that following the water would be the smoothest
course... At the very least, it guarantees that you are decreasing in
altitude... Unless the waterway goes underground, eventually he would end
up on the coast at the very worst... Maybe he figured that he would find
one of the camps along the river where the kayakers put in at...

For sure, I'd have walked down the road.

The problem was, he was definitely lost... At that point, he probably
wasn't sure which way would get him out of there... Yeah, maybe going back
the way he came would have helped for a bit, but soon he would be at yet
another logging road intersection and he might not know where to go from
there... He screwed up... Darwin didn't quite win since he at least had a
chance to pass on his genes...