Just read this report:
Quote(CNN) -- North Carolina authorities Sunday are searching for a 12-year-old Boy Scout, who went missing a day earlier during a camping trip near the Blue Ridge Parkway, local officials told CNN.
The boy, Michael Auberry, of Greensboro, North Carolina, remained with an adult at the campsite while other scouts went for a hike, said Dave Bauer of the Blue Ridge Parkway National Park Services.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/18/boy.scout/index.html
WXII reports that they were camping in Daughton Park!
http://www.wxii12.com/video/11287500/index.html
W-S Journal
http://journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173350272211
Michael Auberry, 12, of Greensboro was camping with Boy Scout Troop 230 at a site off Grassy Gap Fire Road, said David Bauer, a ranger for the Blue Ridge Parkway. Bauer said today that Auberry had stayed at the campsite with an adult while the other boys went on a hike yesterday morning. He ate lunch with the other boys when they returned, and was reported missing a short while later.
Bauer said that Auberry is 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighs 110 pounds. He has curly brown hair and wears wire-frame glasses. He was last seen wearing blue jeans a red reflective jacket, a long-sleeved sweatshirt, hiking boots and a dark blue Tar Heels baseball cap.
http://journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173350277161
I was reading the report. It doesn't sound to good.
It's going to be another cold night, I hope they find him soon.
With a clear sky the lows will be in the 20's, we all know how tough that terrain is.
Tomorrow promises sunny skies, I hope he makes it through another night.
Prayer sent for the fella...keep us posted
Latest I've heard was that they were camping up Basin Creek at the group campsite.
That's a pretty rough area to be in, and it's got the thurmond gamelands on both sides of the park...
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173350279585&path=&s=
Topo Map of the area x marks the campsite
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=36.39118&lon=-81.16321&s=100&size=l&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG
Search continues this morning. more dog teams on the way for today's search.
http://journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173350283517&path=&s=
I was hoping they would find him today :(
Mee too. I kept thinking about him all last night and today.
From what I read he was alone at camp with an adult before lunch. I hate to say it, but it made me wonder what happened that morning. :-\
Quote from: tw5270 on March 19, 2007, 18:32:27 PM
Mee too. I kept thinking about him all last night and today.
From what I read he was alone at camp with an adult before lunch. I hate to say it, but it made me wonder what happened that morning. :-\
i thought the same thing TW... the kid was alone with this guy. then goes missing.... it sounds fishy and not in a good way.
Yes Mark I was thinking the same thing. Read on Bellsouth.com (now it is national, the lost boy that is) that the FBI is now involved.
I really dont care what you regulars that post here think.... We all gotta pray that this young man makes it. We gotta hope and pray for the best. After its all over yall can do what ya want but meantime PRAY.
Well I think we all have our thoughts with the boy and his family as well as the people on the ground searching. We've all most likely been in a situation alone in the woods not making it back to camp before dark, or missing a trail, it's not easy to think of a 12 year old having to spend his third night on the mountain. I sure hope the find him soon. One of the guys on the other board has posted that he's been helping in the search. My son and I had a talk about it today, he said he would go help tomorrow (maybe he's got a test), but we talked about knowing the terrain your in, studying the maps and knowing where the creeks lead. The topography in that cove is quite rugged, with a lot of waterfalls on the creeks but you would think that if he was staying on the road (where they found his mess kit) it's up to the parkway and down to long bottom road. Get off the trail and it's not an easy climb in any direction. You can teach them the basic skills, #1 Stay Put! Maybe this kids doesn't want to be found? Or as darkness crept in around him panic could have taken over. I just hope it turns out okay.
Nothing overnight.. http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/Missing_Boy_Scout.html
Hope the rain holds off ...
QuoteIn addition to five dog teams, two tracking teams and police helicopters, White said officials had been offered a fixed wing aircraft.
update: (nothing really new)
QuoteMissing Scout's Father Thinks Son Is 'Hunkered Down'
http://www.wxii12.com/news/11304640/detail.html
This video give you a perspective of he search area and techniques used in the steep terrain.
http://www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=2719938&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1
Radio traffic from the scene indicates a 12-year-old Boy Scout missing since Saturday in the North Carolina forest has been found alive, National Park Service spokeswoman Tina White said.
FANTASTIC! I am so glad to hear it! A coworker just told me he saw it on MSN so I logged on right away.
I can't tell you how happy it makes me that he was found alive. ;D
That is a relief. I guess we'll never know why he wandered off or where he thought he was going. As Shakespear put it, though, "All's well that ends well."
Hey a happy ending for a change in one of these types of 'child missing' stories - thank God! Can you just imagine the emotional roller coaster the parents have been through in the past three days or so??? I don't know what I'd do if I lost my son like that - I do know we'll be talking survival skills now...
Good :)
Brad 8)
This makes my own problems seem alot less important. Great news!
That is great news! Thank goodness!!
What a story he will have to tell later on!
Thats a great ending, glad they found him! :) Did anyone listen to the interveiw of his dad with the media on cnn.com? It's amazing the unethical questions the media asks just to see who can make the juciest news story. :P
Quote from: calebB on March 20, 2007, 15:37:23 PM
Thats a great ending, glad they found him! :) Did anyone listen to the interveiw of his dad with the media on cnn.com? It's amazing the unethical questions the media asks just to see who can make the juciest news story. :P
No, didn't see that one, they (they media, ask all sorts of invasive, rude and inappropriate questions), they want headlines!
They were pretty good at pestering the dog handler with leading questions, wanting some "juice" for their report....
Glad the boy is out, If it was my son, when asked why/how he got lost, I'd get a three word answer, "I don't know".
The found him in the area that I suspected by studying the topo with the clue about the mess kit and candy wrappers.
I've been going over the maps with my son and showing him how the basin is built like a "Y", if you walk downhill you'll get funneled back to the campground. Looking and studying maps are two different things, I hope this teaches all Scouts a valuable lesson!
The is really great news. The past couple of nights it has been the topic of discussion over dinner. I'll be sure to review this again before we camp out in SNP next month.
TC
My wife called me today at lunch to bring me this wonderful news. I can't tell you how happy I am for this young man being found alive. This is truly an answer to prayer.
Barry
Bizarre Quote
QuoteMichael told his father he slept in tree branches during the night, drank river water and prayed he wouldn't get sick. He said he got homesick because some of his closest friends had not gone on the camping trip, so he planned to walk to a highway and hitchhike to his home in Greensboro, North Carolina
This kid may have caused a lot of needless worry.....
Quote• NEW: Boy wandered away because he was homesick, father said
• Upon being found, boy said he wanted food, water, helicopter ride out
maybe he was looking for some attention
Like I said on the chat last night, "I don't think he wants to be found". Knowing the area and where the searchers were looking I couldn't understand way he couldn't see or hear them....
Wooly, it is funny that you say that, that is my wife's sentiments exactly. She and I are both glad the boy is alive and well but she thinks he deserves an old fashioned azz whuppin. She feels that he has been hiding all along. I personally thought the worst when 150+ people didnt find him by Monday evening.
I guess good moms think alike. My wife said the exact same thing last night.
Hmmm....???? A mothers intuition.?
Anywho, thanks to all that helped in the field and on the board with your prayers and good wishes and thoughts. Thanks again.
Didn't he have ADD too?
Quote from: calebB on March 20, 2007, 22:19:06 PM
Didn't he have ADD too?
Yes, but....
well read this reply in the Greensboro News and Record; http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/news_message?category=NEWSREC01&ThemeID=1523&GroupID=451378&InReplyTo=62378
or this one;
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/news_message?Category=NEWSREC0290&ThemeID=1523&GroupID=451378&InReplyTo=62395
I'm glad he's safe,...but knowing the area he was lost in very well, ... let's just say there's got to be a lot more to the story than what we are hearing.
Like so many other things, though, it's best to just let it go, now. There's nothing more we, as a group, can do.
Quote from: phg on March 21, 2007, 11:36:22 AM
I'm glad he's safe,...but knowing the area he was lost in very well, ... let's just say there's got to be a lot more to the story than what we are hearing.
Like so many other things, though, it's best to just let it go, now. There's nothing more we, as a group, can do.
Well said.
I only want to add a word of thanks to Wolly. I now live abroad and, although very much interested in the story, I never would have had the time to follow it as I did, had he not gathered the reports here.
Yes, it is true. BRFFF the source for local news.
Thanks!
FITT