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Colorado saw a couple of rescues this week
There have been several missing-hiker stories this past week, and a couple of them came out of Colorado. They're mostly ending with good news, thankfully, but one in particular raises some issues every outdoors person should pay heed to.
As reported on the CBS4 website, a man was rescued Tuesday from Mt. Princeton, one of Colorado's fourteeners. It appears to be a case of good technique on the part of the search teams because the hiker violated a couple of cardinal rules: he went alone and he didn't tell anyone where he was going. Searchers tracked his movements through his cell-phone records and found his car at the Mt. Princeton trailhead. There are a handful of very basic steps (described here) you can take that will make you easier to find should you become lost, and they're especially important to follow when you travel alone. Number one on the list: leave a detailed itinerary of where your'e going and when you'll be back.
But the best medicine is, of course, preventative, and that means having a map and compass and knowing how to use them. Even a successful search can be dangerous: right now there is a rescue helicopter missing in New Mexico. It had been dispatched to search for a missing hiker and was successful: it found her and picked her up. But as it headed back to base the pilot radioed that he'd struck the mountain, and contact was lost.
For more information: Tips for staying safe
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