A hiker lost for 24 hours ignored rescuers' phone calls because they didn't recognize the number

[anon33932455]

Interesting. That wasn’t in the blurb here at BB, nor in the screenshot BB posted, nor in the blurb I posted earlier on The Facepalm. If true, then yeah.

@generic_name

True enough, but most of my hiking has been long distance thru-hiking, where I am gone for weeks at a time, never sure of how long it will take (and mostly on the east coast where one is never more than a days hike from a road except in parts of Maine.)

Same. But that’s me, and that’s my family and friends. Their joke is that I take a firemaking kit, fishing line, and an emergency blanket to check the mail at the end of the drive.