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#41 ·
baker said:
Same here... As someone who has lived a life of mistakes (which make good stories), I'm hesitant to criticize the mistakes of others from the anonymity of my keyboard.
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My mom just rolls her eyes. My wife keeps a tight leash on me. Just for damn fool ideas though. I'm OK with that...sometimes.

I have a rock that I love and had to have. I was whisked down the Upper Kern River to save it. Mom said she looked up from her book and I was gone. Wild ride.

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legally blind, and many of your usual recognizable patterns for finding
your way on known trails (trees, bushes, vegetation) are
burned away, I can see how disorienting it can be w/o 20/20 vision.
 
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#48 ·
baker said:
The pics do look a bit staged, eh?

But anyway...I think some people don't realize how big and wild parts of the USA are...I live right next to 1,000,000 acres of National Forest. Get a few miles away from the trail head and there is zero cell service. Getting lost, dehydrated, running out of food, and not having access to maps or gps (being unprepared or running out of battery) can put you in a pretty bad situation. Especially if you are unfamiliar with the area.

Kudos to this guy for making it out...
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Horseshoe said:
This whole thing is giving off serious Balloon Boy vibes. Eh, if nothing else it's a fun diversion and we can all pick squares for how long it takes til the truth comes out.
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Dude looks like your average California hippie. Nothing to see here. Move along.

I do love that pic where his daughter(?) is just kinda one-arming the hug. "I missed, you, Dad, but damn you stink!"

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#50 ·
Wabatuckian said:
Dude looks like your average California hippie. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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I spent a couple decades looking like your typical California hippie too but never managed to get lost in my own backyard.

Come to think of it that guy is a dead ringer for my little brother. Maybe not the albino part but the stinky hippie part, 100%.
 
#51 ·
When you are down in one of those canyons, it can be very disorienting. The hillsides are often too steep to climb. The trees obscure your view of any distance, even on top of the mountain. It is so different up there now with the trees burned, that I don't recognize any of it. I drive through there and the only recognizable landmark is one crossroad. The landscape in some spots looks closer to the moon than the redwood forest I grew up in.

Anecdotally, I lived near the edge of Big Basin when I was 13. My cousin and I went hiking where there were no trails. We were looking for a mountaintop meadow that we could see from the road. We ended up lost for 3 hours until we finally realized we had gone in a big circle and we were back to the spot where we hid our bikes.
 
#52 ·
Wabatuckian said:
Dude looks like your average California hippie. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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When is the last time you've been to California?


So much critique, even the heartfelt reunion photo isn't safe from internet derision. I figured most here would recognize that as a beautiful moment but that's what I get for being eternally optimistic 🙃
 
#53 ·
J.B. Weld said:
So much critique, even the heartfelt reunion photo isn't safe from internet derision. I figured most here would recognize that as a beautiful moment but that's what I get for being eternally optimistic 🙃
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i think that's just the times we live in. Granted that is a very candid shot and the one convincing aspect of the story and I do feel like a bit of a jacka$$ or calling BS. But when you look at the hoax to survivor ratio these days I think a lot of us are going to approach things with a healthy amount of skepticism (or an unhealthy amount of jaded outlook, depending on perspective).
 
#59 ·
Dabs For Everyone said:
I mean, when I think Santa Cruz, the first thing I think of is a sweaty tourist eating a funnel cake on the boardwalk, but that's just me.
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That's fair, but when I think hippies and California, I'm not thinking Redding, San Bernardino, or Bakersfield so much as I'm thinking SF (well maybe not so much these days) Berkeley, Santa Cruz.
 
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