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5 hours after they call they are reported missing. No food etc...... :O_O:
Yea strange aye. Maybe the family thought they were taking the piss or hoped they would make it out on their own. Hope they had a survival blanket with em. Mine lives in the bottom of my pack with a lighter and other bits an bobs.
So its not you +:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
I travel in circles and the end of the arc normally gets me out :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
Rusky - check or replace your survival blanket. You don't want to be in a situation where it is needed only to have it disintegrate when taking it out
At 44yo and 20yo I also thought of Gibo taking Toby for a walk
Mate!! That's a bit rough!! Mid thirties right here!!Quote:
Originally Posted by sako75
herald is reporting they've been found...
Missing hunters Mark Cooksley, 44, and Nathaniel Lane, 20, have been found.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carpe Diem
The pair walked out of the bush and approached the owner of a house in the Kaimai Range where they called family to say they were safe.
Family and friends had been anxiously waiting at the Whakamarama Rd entrance to the Kaimai Range where the pair were missing.:D:D
Have you added on all the years you've slept @Gibo ....?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
Yep have heard how they do that over time and become just hand sized squares.Quote:
Originally Posted by sako75
Great result them making it out. I reckon you can't get too lost in there. Take a bearing and keep walking, eventually you'll pop out at farm land.
Minor technicality. How much of the finer details you read in the media is true?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
How the flying forskins can any hunter get lost in the Kaimais?
pick a line and walk, it is not rocket science!
I hunt often in the kaimais, and fail to grasp these situations.
Bitch at me as you will, however I stand by my post.
Im pretty sure its by having a attitude like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Comfortably_Numb
Could be any number of reasons why. I know a diabetic guy who let his blood - sugar get too low and couldn't find his way out of a 2Ha suburban reserve (undulating terrain, covered in mature to Totara and Puriri). If he got to the point where he couldn't brain, and therefore couldn't work his mobile, he might not have come back out.
Plenty of people get "lost" in areas they are familiar with, and often it is because they believe it won't happen to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Comfortably_Numb
The over Reliance on electronics to keep you on the right path can, in my opinion, be the downfall of a few as well.
I was thinking about joining Search & Rescue, but I just don't know if I could handle looking for people like this.
Their ignorance is at almost impressive levels.
No offence mate, but if that is your attitude, find something other than sar
O to be so clever, I got lost, less than 600 mtrs from a road, in a woods in Illinois, after shooting a squirrel at last light, gps does not like dense canopy, and darkness falls quickly, you can,t see the stars , I always carry a head lamp, water , and plenty of ammo, walking into ravines can be disorienting , over a hour later I reached the road.
Anyone who hasn't spent a night out hasn't been doing it very long. Glad they're safe and sound
I went for a run in the Hunuas once, and once only. Took no food and not enough water. Stayed on tracks, but did a Forrest Gump and got the the end and decided to turn around and keep on going, Jenny.
Decided to finally head back to the car when I STARTED getting cramp. Oh fuck, the car is 8km away along poorly maintained tracks full of stairs.
The last 2km took about an hour. Was able to text wifey and get myself back to the car before dark. Ran, then walked, then crawled 22km that day. I started the day with the mental image that I'm still as fit as I was at my peak, 5 years earlier.
Lesson learned, fitness reality well and truly checked, and now I carry enough on a day trip to be comfortable overnight.
Hopefully these guys learn their lesson. Complacency and overconfidence can be killers.
I think they should change their names to dum and dummer. You have to be dum to go into the bush at this time of the year without cover and something to eat. Its just plain common sense
how do people get lost??????? simple they don't know where they are and get freaked out by it
in modern techno PC world some people always know within a meter or two where they are....the concept of knowing APPROXAMATELY where you are is foreign to them
I cannot be lost in New Zealand...... why not...cause Im in New Zealand therefore I know where I am. also know if Im in North or South Island
which region Im in eg Canterbury which is in east coast..see Im narrowing it down already...speaking of DOWN that's the way water flows..anywhere on east coast or west for that matter it will flow towards coast and cross a road.
Ive been temporarily navigationally embarrassed for hour or two but it was never an issue......now Stuart Island is a weird place in than its mainly flat and features not helpful and that's where a compass comes in..remember those, we used them before GPSs came along.
at least these guys made it out ok and had brains to make phone call to end search.
Kaimai rifle. Battries not included.
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its not so much about being lost . More a case of getting home in a reasonable time frame.
We're they looking for Kimjon's trophy goat?
Yep. That's what I said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pengy
My hunting mate always 'disses' me for carrying 'emergency gear' in my 'day pack'....i always have a headtorch, emergency bivy bag,(like a big survival blanket you can fit in) fleece to keep my core warm, jerky for that nights meal...
it would result in an uncomfortable night with next to no sleep, BUT i will be alive and well, and after a few hours to think on it, a plan would be hatched to get out under my own steam...
i always carry a PLB, but thats for real emergency's, not getting lost....i always tell him there my 'lucky charms', take them and I'll never need them....dont take them and.....!
Yeah the knowing approximately where you are and not exactly where you are can be a bit of HF if you are not used to it. My first solo fly camping trip I went into it all confidence and bravado in my navigating skills (was a land surveyor for 4 year at the beggining of my civil engineering cadetship) and was quickly turned around by, little gullies not marked, streams not marked and just by the fact you cant see far enough to distinguish land marks and get a good fix on my position. My GPS didnt work in the canopy, and I ended up getting a bit intimidated. Second day I took my time, used my noggin and used the major streams and faces to approxiamte my position and was happy as larry.
I can definatley see how people can get lost, especially if they are familiar with the country, so dont take a map and compass as they should
They certainly got bushed ended up walking out on SH29 so a long trek from where they started
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Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Cant get lost ,bold statement I can put you in the Motu area and you would get lost as many do. I can also put you in the Kaimanawas forest park and you could get lost . A wise man never say's never
That's not emergency gear scouser, that's bare essentials
Fukin Oath....:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pointer
Oooh a big survival blanket .... Cosy!!!! :yuush:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouser
I wouldn't knock it too much at least he's got that stuffQuote:
Originally Posted by Carpe Diem
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I got bushed once in Pureora had gps n a compass got out ok but was a real mind fuck when I didn't know where exactly I was. Canopy was too thick for gps n compass was saying a different way to where I thought I was going . I told my boss about whose done a bit of hunting (30 years +)'trust your gear' he said
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point Im making is Im not lost...just wouldn't know where precisely I was at that point in timeQuote:
Originally Posted by kawekakid
once you think you are LOST your mindset turns to custard.... being temporarily misplaced isn't necessarily a life ending thing, stay calm and chances of a positive outcome are much higher.
yeah and how many times do you stand up from one of those wee breaks...back in the day a "smoke stop" and a plurry deer takes off!!!!!
amazing how your mind settles and can solve puzzle if you stop calm down and refuel.
You missed the "In" joke mate... Have hunted with him a number of times and was more angling we could "share" even though i carry my own stash too. If you saw us hunting you'd think we were turtles the amount of what if stuff we take in with us - but we wouldn't have it any other way...Quote:
Originally Posted by tiroatedson
Just to clarify!!
