This whole story is super bizarre. I live in the Bay Area, and the Santa Cruz mountains aren't exactly a big undeveloped wilderness, they're more akin to a bunch of county / state parks and you're never very far from the road. In his case, he was in an area that was 5 miles by one mile - he could have just walked in a straight line for any direction for roughly 2 hours and found his way out. He claims he was disoriented by the "burn" but I don't necessarily buy it - the burn was also like two years ago. There are some other things that don't add up as well.
EDIT: Also redditors claim he's legally blind but I have yet to see a news article that mentions this yet.
EDIT 2: Don't mean to shit on him, I could just be some Redditor that doesn't know what they're talking about, but there's just a lot about the story as written that just leaves me with a lot of questions.
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u/YodelingVeterinarian 5d ago edited 5d ago
This whole story is super bizarre. I live in the Bay Area, and the Santa Cruz mountains aren't exactly a big undeveloped wilderness, they're more akin to a bunch of county / state parks and you're never very far from the road. In his case, he was in an area that was 5 miles by one mile - he could have just walked in a straight line for any direction for roughly 2 hours and found his way out. He claims he was disoriented by the "burn" but I don't necessarily buy it - the burn was also like two years ago. There are some other things that don't add up as well.
EDIT: Also redditors claim he's legally blind but I have yet to see a news article that mentions this yet.
EDIT 2: Don't mean to shit on him, I could just be some Redditor that doesn't know what they're talking about, but there's just a lot about the story as written that just leaves me with a lot of questions.