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The prerequisite to being found is knowing you are lost.
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Lost in the Woods
Mike Vilhauer just wanted to catch some fish, but on August 6, 2014, the 58-year-old from Sacramento wandered off the trail into the mountain wilderness to look for grasshoppers he could use as live bait. It took a while, but his journey paid off.
Until it didn’t.
After collecting a tube-full of little critters, he looked up and lost all sense of direction.
After numerous unsuccessful attempts to find any discernible footpath, the sun began to set and Mike began to panic.
He was lost.
After five days without food or clean water, Mike realized that he wasn’t going to make it out of the forest alive. As he carved a final message to this wife on a piece of driftwood by a creek, he heard the faint sound of helicopter blades whirling in the distance, prompting him to put down the knife and gather pine branches that he used to spell the word “HELP” with eight-foot letters on a rock outcropping.
