Female hiker rescued from canyon

Orange County Register ^ | 04/04/13 | Staff

[Inyo-Mono]

Dehydration is a terrible thing. Went rabbit hunting in the desert with a friend and his dad back in 1964 when we were teenagers. We were way out in the boondocks and after hunting in the morning, his dad took the only canteen and went off hunting by himself and left us at the truck with no water on a very hot day. We were so weak from thirst by the time he returned several hours later that to this day I double check to make sure I have enough water with me at all times when outdoors way off road.

[Bigg Red]

Wow! I went to the link and was told I had to be a subscriber or pay on an “a la carte” basis!

[Uncle Chip]

A teen-age hiker who spent four nights lost in the canyons was found Thursday morning in rocky terrain so steep that a helicopter had to hoist her to safety.

How do you get lost in Orange County for 4 nights in an era of cell phones???

[Myrddin]

My scout troop took a 20 mile round trip hike in the Anza-Borrego desert. We hiked 10 miles in, slept the night by some "indian ruins", then hiked back to the pickup point. I carried a full 2 gallons of water and drank every drop. I was still nearly 15 pounds lighter when I returned home. Dehydration happens quickly in that environment. It will kill you quickly.

[FourtySeven]

I always have water. Dehydration is truly one of my greatest fears. Maybe I shouldn’t watch so many survival shows!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Or an Obama speech!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Cell phone died...

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Was in Death Valley several years ago just looking around taking pictures- not hiking. The view made me thirsty!

[nascarnation]

Cell phone died...

Isn't this California? Surely there was a Tesla around to plug it into?

[Inyo-Mono]

Not to mention that cell phones often don’t work at all in mountain canyons where you can’t get a signal.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Has anyone been to the Bristlecone Pines State Park on the Nevada side?

[douginthearmy]

I failed internet grammer nazi school.

Apparently you failed internet spelling nazi school as well.

[Inyo-Mono]

Yes, I live very close to there.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

You are correct...None of their cell phones worked.

[driftdiver]

Actually i did that on purpose as a trap for you closet nazi’s.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

I have yet to get up there. We are going fishing this summer at South Lake Near Bishop and would like to make a side trip up there. Does the route go off road at the end?

[LibWhacker]

Glad the girl is okay.

Holy Jim hemself (sic) with a
couple of homees (sic)

TRAIL HISTORY: (From the Cleveland National Forest Website) If you expect that the Holy Jim Canyon is named for a pious, early preacher in the Santa Ana Mountains, you would be very wrong! Jim Smith was a beekeeper who settled in the north fork of Trabuco Canyon in the 1870s. It was said that: "Jim Smith was a talker...no ordinary talker... a man given to blasphemous eloquence. When he started cussing... he could peel paint off a stove pipe." When government surveyors first mapped the canyon, they chose to name it "Holy Jim" rather than "Cussin' Jim," since the word "cussing" was considered neither polite nor appropriate for a government publication.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

the word “cussing” was considered neither polite nor appropriate for a government publication.

My...How times have changed! An Ass clown like Obama gets in the White House and cussing seems very appropriate!

[packrat35]

If either of them had a simple solar charger (costs around $25), they could have been rescued before almost dying. They weight almost nothing and are the size of a small smartphone.