It was a terrible situation--story was on my google all Thurday evening. A two-year-old B.C. toddler wandered away from where his family was camping in the Yukon. Not exactly safe terrain, and it gets cold at night.
Then, the next day, turns out the little guy is found. He'd followed a dog he saw into the forest. The dog had been lost for a week or so, and it must have stayed with him, and probably kept him warm overnight. They were found together, and are okay. The owners of the dog found out the little boy wanted to keep the dog, so they're letting him have it.
Full story here.
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That's a nice story, although I do have to admit I'm a little hung up on the fact that the kid's name is Kale. Does he have a sister named Escarole?
funny thing is, there was a kid who just graduated from my school who had the same name (haven't met an Escarole, but I bet there's somebody out there...)
awwww! that's so heartwarming!
I know some folks, "total outdoors people" as the story would say, who once went on what was supposed to be a nice, long day hike. But they hadn't realized that a forest fire had come through a year or two before and basically wiped out the whole mountain (this was out west, of course). so they decided to take the hike anyway, but got horribly lost because all the markers were gone. and, of course, nothing had reception. they had to spend the night up on the mountain, with a tiny fire and only their dayhike gear. they were out of water and food, and getting pretty dehydrated, but when they finally found a stream and followed it out, they discovered it was full of water bottles and gatorade, shoved up against the rocks. They figured rangers had put it there for people who made their mistake... talk about lucky!
anyway, i love cute wilderness survival stories.
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