I read in the Aug. 16 Pathfinder about the 20-year-old man who was lost on Nine Mile Prairie Road. According to the article, he drove his motorcycle around the gate meant to keep him out and preceded up the road until he ran out of gas. Then he started a fire--luckily for us it didn’t turn into a forest fire!
Instead of staying with the cycle and the fire, as any smart person would, he wandered off again going the wrong way from home. (Don’t you think he could have followed the tracks of his motorcycle to get back to Point A?)
Searchers were sent out (SSSAR, BLM, USFS, FWP). Monday the searchers sent up three fixed wing planes from SSSAR and Two Bear Air rescue helicopter. The guy finally wandered back to the gate where he first came in and was “rescued.”
I’m glad he was found but I think he should be charged for the all of the expenses of the search, including the aircraft.
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