A man in rural Sierra Nevada, California, was misdirected by GPS to a snowy mountain pass. The picture is a diagram, not related to this article.
A man in rural Sierra Nevada, California, was misdirected by his GPS to a snowy mountain pass and was trapped in the snow for a week, surviving on a small amount of dry Food and snow water.
According to CNN, Harland Earls, 29, was traveling from Grass Valley to a birthday party in Truckee on Jan. 24, a drive that normally takes less than two hours, when a snowstorm blocked Interstate 80. He had to find another way, and the GPS navigator pointed out a shortcut – Henness Pass Road – but didn’t tell him that it was snowed in and had six feet of snow.
The car was stuck in the thick snow and couldn’t move. Harlan tried to tie twigs to the minivan’s tires to keep the wheels from skidding, and in the process, his phone got wet and stopped working. Cold and hungry, he found some dry spaghetti and hand-warming packets from the truck, and he put the phone in the packets. Three days later, the phone was finally warm and dry, and he started making calls, but the signal was hard to find. Fortunately, there were two cans of beans, a few sausages and a few slices of dry, hard, moldy bread in the truck.
The sheriff’s office said Earls’ truck had a camping tent, along with some winter clothes and a propane camping stove.
Meanwhile, Family members had reported him missing to authorities, and several teams had launched search-and-rescue operations into the roaming hills. At that moment, there was another snowstorm and the snow was getting deeper and deeper. But the mother was not ready to give up the search for her son. “I will not wait until the opening of the spring child to find his body, I must find him.” Jolie said her son has been interested in survival skills since he was a child and loves to read books on the subject, sometimes, in the middle of the night with a flashlight.
Earls was able to cut wood for a fire, use a small propane camp stove to melt snow into drinking water, and use a puppy dish to hold water for drinking, and he had done a couple of country hikes before, but he had been stranded for seven days because he couldn’t get cell phone reception.
“Then on Sunday (Jan. 31), he got really desperate and ran out of dry food. The good thing is that the cell phone is now charged to 50 percent, which means he can now walk to the high point and try to make another call.” The mother said.
Earls strapped two skis to his feet to use as makeshift snowshoes and walked to an elevated spot, but the cell phone signal was still weak and dropped just as soon as he got through to 911, making it easy to say where he was and where he was.
This enabled law enforcement to pinpoint the GPS location of his cell phone and send a ground search and rescue team and a helicopter. The helicopter found him immediately. He was in pretty good condition at the Time and declined medical assistance. “He was hungry and cold and just wanted to go Home,” his mother said.
“I gave him his favorite food and vitamin supplements, and he drank a gallon of water the first day he came home.” Mom said.
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