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Lightweight trail runner nearly pays the price

I live in this area and know the area they got lost in. Head east and you are in Riverside, head west and it's the OC. Seems like she knew what she was doing (other than forgetting her phone and gps), but that the heat got the best of them.

A compass might have helped... :rolleyes:
 
Am I really tired or does that story get incoherent near the end.
It says she 'lost track of 8 hours' whatever that meens. It doesn't say how they got lost, did they go off trail? Theres something about her running partner getting ill, that doesn't seem to have any bearing on anything. Then they're just suddenly crawling through brush or something.

It's like the journalist who interviewed her neglected to ask what the hell happened.

He was found Wednesday several hours before she was. It's not clear why he was lost for so long and where, for days, he had traveled in the forest.
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For so long? He was found before she was!
 
They were lost for "3 days", being found a few hours before still leaves plenty of time to spend lost.
 
i see people running on trails here all the time, rugged terrain and all they got is their spandex clothing and maybe a bottle of water. sometimes no water.


all i can do is shake my head and keep hikin.
 
jca21 said:
i see people running on trails here all the time, rugged terrain and all they got is their spandex clothing and maybe a bottle of water. sometimes no water.


all i can do is shake my head and keep hikin.
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Yeah, I don't get this. I see this all the time where I hike. The other day I saw a pair of guys six miles in from the nearest road. They had one water bottle between the two of them. Nothing else.

Seriously, if what they want to do is exercise, wouldn't more weight make them exercise even more? That's why I don't care that my dayhike pack weighs a lot. It's not limiting where I'm going and I'm getting more of a workout.
 
they should just run on treadmills then on the trails where they might get killed. lol.
 
bikerider said:
I live in this area and know the area they got lost in. Head east and you are in Riverside, head west and it's the OC. Seems like she knew what she was doing (other than forgetting her phone and gps), but that the heat got the best of them.

A compass might have helped... :rolleyes:
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So what's the story on the water Bikerider?? Are there no streams you could find and drink from in a pinch?
 
The runner states that she wasn't prepaired. She normally has food and plenty of water, a GPS and Cell phone but left all that. She even admits to doing the wrong thing. Lesson learned, Never leave home with out your supplies!!

A good thing to remember it to always have your gear with you. :) Thanks for sharing. Glad the runner was rescued.

Heber
 
"She usually wears a Garmin GPS watch, a sophisticated device that runners use to find out where they are, the distance they have traveled, calories burned and altitude."

As far as I know, a GPS watch will only tell you how far you have gone, and some act as a compass as well. They won't actually tell you where you are, like a full power GPS unit.

I also wonder why they were crawling through brush...weren't they following a trail?

Good thing they came out mostly unharmed, lesson learned.:thumbup:
 
siguy said:
"She usually wears a Garmin GPS watch, a sophisticated device that runners use to find out where they are, the distance they have traveled, calories burned and altitude."

As far as I know, a GPS watch will only tell you how far you have gone, and some act as a compass as well. They won't actually tell you where you are, like a full power GPS unit.

I also wonder why they were crawling through brush...weren't they following a trail?

Good thing they came out mostly unharmed, lesson learned.:thumbup:
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Actually depending on the watch, they can tell you where you are either by coordinates (lat and longitude for you to match up with a map) or an onscreen display as seen on this watch:

http://www.engadget.com/2004/08/25/watch-this-wednesday-the-gps-watch/
 
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