2022-01-25, 08:40 PM
I just read a description by a group of strong hikers on a good long trip just outside Tucson where they encountered one of these lost and panicked app hikers. I sounds like the poor guy was terrified that he was going to die in the wild and it took a bunch to calm him down. The group that "rescued" him got him back on the trail and shortly thereafter the first of three SAR parties came upon the scene so they left him with them. The lost hiker had managed to call for help, apparently several times, the the trailhead is right at the edge of the city. All this occurred in a rugged place but where there is a trail, if you know how to see one when the vegetation has taken over after a big monsoon this year in the area.