This is amazing:
Two weeks after Doris Anderson disappeared while on a hunting trip with her husband, the 76-year-old lay next to a creek surrounded by thick brush, alone and with no food or supplies.
Rescue teams had been through the mountainous area but found no sign of her. Knowing that she was only lightly clothed in temperatures that had dipped into the 30s at night, they had scaled back the search nearly a week earlier.
But they hadn’t given up.
On Thursday, a day after a sheriff’s deputy asked Anderson’s husband once again how the couple had become separated in the woods, the deputy and others returned to an area they had checked before and found her, alive, alert and in surprisingly good condition.
“We just asked her if she was hurt and talked to her about her family,” Trooper Chris Hawkins said Friday as Anderson recovered in a hospital from dehydration and a hip injury.
Doris Anderson is one tough cookie. Period.
ThymeZone
According to the woman’s daughter, she was “With the Lord and He is looking out for her.”
So I really don’t see what all the fuss is about.
(Apologies to all those who got into trouble lately and weren’t “with the Lord” and perished terrible deaths. Perhaps this will be a lesson to some of you.)
Gus
Her husband said he thought he’d never see her again until the rapture. So there really are people who believe that?
ThymeZone
Just keepin it real.
Nikki
Those troopers who kept looking for her are pretty freakin’ amazing too.
And, TZ is so going to hell. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
ThymeZone
{ tugs at collar }
Is it me, or is it really hot in here?
Dreggas
now THAT is keeping it real.
ThymeZone
“Wait for you at the fork in the trail, my ass!”
Delia
It’s not so warm at night in the mountains in Oregon at this time of year. You got to watch out for some of this old pioneer stock. You think they’re just flabby city folks when you look at them, but they’ll fool you every time.
Delia
It’s not so warm at night in the mountains in Oregon at this time of year. You got to watch out for some of this old pioneer stock. You think they’re just flabby city folks when you look at them, but they’ll fool you every time.
chopper
pfft. i’m tougher than that. last week i ate this burrito that was totally too big, but i soldiered on and polished the whole thing off.
Dreggas
I was thinking more along the lines of “I’ll show you hansel and gretel you old fart”
stickler
And some folks claim that the real tough Westerners are out in some Godforsaken Southwestern desert. Ha! Crusty old Oregonian grandmas eat Arizonans for breakfast.
But I’m not so sure about the wattage on this family. Which is sillier: believing in that Dispensationalist “Rapture” crapola, or taking your wife with you deer hunting??? There’s just something so very wrong about that.
Baker City is the gateway to the Hell’s Canyon area on the Snake River. Some of the most beautiful landscapes on the planet. Not many people around to bother you, either.
Pb
a) How much do you like your wife?
b) Is your last name ‘Cheney’?
Xenos
Dick Cheney does not go deer hunting. It requires him to walk to find his prey, and then follow it down and retrieve it. He prefers the sort of hunting where one sits on ones arse, drinks heavily, and shoots at birds being let out of cages, and has dogs retrieve the killed and wounded.
Talley ho! (hic)
Chuck Butcher
This is my backyard, my County. The Deputy & OSP Trooper are my near neighbors. The Andersons were not from here or even near here, Portland is 350 miles of freeway plus the 50 or so they were off the freeway.
This is beautiful country, it is also easily fatal, I hunt fish and just plain explore all around this county and a lifetime would be insufficient to Know all of it.
Two weeks alone and poorly prepared in these mountains is a tough prospect. Over the past two weeks those mountains have been near freezing at night and damn hot during the day and the terrain is not for weenies.
My site has the story as a tease and links to the local reporter’s stories.
t. jasper parnell
Hey, a first hand account from another tough cookie about the difference between being lost in the woods and beaten by the iron fist. Makes ya wanna weep.
Anne Laurie
Dick Cheney does not hunt deer, because they are large animals with sharp hooves & horns. He “hunts” little bitty birds — farm-raised ones, at that. And he doesn’t take his wife along, he takes his mistress. Repub Family Values Rulez!
Leeds man
I hunt fish
This is one of those “eats, shoots and leaves” moments.
Also – if she was next to a creek, why the dehydration?
capelza
Hey! Womenfolk DO go hunting with their men in Orygun, even the old ones.
Hell, I’m trying NOT to this year. A camp in November in the Desolation Unit? No thanks. The boys can go do their manly thing without me this year. I also didn’t get the tag anyway.
The Chewaucan River..an old couple I knew went there on their honeymoon and every year after that. On their 60th anniversary, I kid you not, the husband, now blind, was getting his fishing pole ready, and passed away on the log he was sitting on. They were by themselves and she said her goodbyes to him then got in the truck and drove out to where she could contact some help. She was a greeat lady and lived her life with a man and sons and a daughter that legally could falcon (includiong wild eggs) and trap, fish and hunt while still rasing her kids to read great literature and think (they certainly weren’t about the rapture, however.
Amazing this woman survived, but old folks going into the woods isn’t that uncommon.
Chuck Butcher
Leeds,
You’re not from around here so what you don’t know is that creeks go dry in the summer in some places and this year is a serious drought. This country is semi-arid, just missing desert by a bit. The forests are supported by the winter snow pack, the bit of rain later only keeps things going. Yes, it still gets called a creek even if it went dry. You also dry out very quickly with humidity avg around 7-15% and high temps day and low nights. 40+F temp swings in the summer are normal around here, 90+F day/50-F night(in the valley). Higher elevations compound the problems, Baker City in the valley is 3500Ft.
Chuck Butcher
I’ve hunted Desolation unit, there are some big elk in there and it’s not exactly flat. I hunted west of Granite, up pretty high.
bernarda
Did the husband/hunter want to help her along to the rapture?
When these family things happen, you have to wonder, like in the case of the English family in Portugal.
BIRDZILLA
It was not her time the lord will allow her to wait
capelza
Yeah, pretty much exactly the same area. Lots of up and down, long hikes. This will be the first elk trip, we’ve gone there for deer several times. Got the best tasting deer ever from there last year. Nice and big, too…bigger than a three point usually is. Packing him out quite the work out.
It’s beautiful country. Love my coastal forests, but the light and the air are different in the eastern part of the state. Nice place to visit. It really is a dry cold! :D