Lost Hiker Found by Taxi
By Rocky Thompson on December 22nd, 2009
Thirty-nine rescuers spent six hours combing Marin County’s Mount Tamalpais looking for a single hiker who’d gone missing at about 1:30. Eventually the hiker had the bright idea that he might head downhill where he ran into surface streets, street lights, and cell phone reception. He called a car service for a ride home and then the police to let them know he’d found his way out.
St. John suggested that folks bring a map and a flashlight — since, sadly, locator beacons (”Yuppie 911″ to bemused mountaineers) would probably end up triggering more vain rescue attempts, and not fewer.
Other options include telling people to stay on the trails, and to go back the way they came.
