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http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/12/29/hunter-survives-subzero-temps/

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. My hat is off to this man. He defines "don't ever quit."

Many a hunter has died in cold weather and it pays to be cautious.

tough yes - but the situation was avoidable

Anyone - and especially those of us who have a few years on us - should - at bare minimum - tell someone where you will be and when you expect to be out

i have made a habit of that since i was a much younger man - without fail - before cell phones - i left a note

if nothing else they will have a smaller area to search

He's a lucky man.

Not too bright, but definitely lucky.

Tough yes, wise no.

Glad he made it

This episode reminds all of the need for a Float plan, letting someone know where you are and when you'll be back. I know we've discussed over the years PLB's, EPIRBS, SPOT, etc, and they have their place in locations outside of cellphone coverage. Gil

An unwise man had a thing happen that could have been avoidable? He had emphysema and went grouse hunting three miles off the main road with a broken cell phone.

If they had been searching for him and found him frozen to the pavement we could conclude he didn't show up when he was supposed to, but that's not what happened. His truck slid off the road and he tried to walk for help.

He went grouse hunting though he had emphysema and his cell phone was broken. Broken before he went? Discovered it wasn't working after he got stuck?

Man does not go grouse hunting because he doesn't have a cell phone.

Man doesn't go grouse hunting because he has no-one to tell where he is going.

Man doesn't go grouse hunting because he has emphysema.

He went grouse hunting. I vote "tough guy".

His daughters would feel worse if he sat home and blew his brains out with his grouse gun.

I can remember when I went hunting without a cell phone. I have a brother I could tell where I am going. He might even remember what I told him, though I am pretty sure he wouldn't notice I was gone for a couple days anyway. Maybe I ought to give up grouse hunting? I am not a tough guy.

He might still have his digits if he had just looked at a weather report, or carried some dry gloves in his truck.

Call it what you want, but he was in trouble from the minute he left his house. It just caught up to him this time.

I don't wish anyone ill, but old men in poor health are in more danger than they realize all too frequently outdoors.

And on a day when it's going down to minus 30 tonight?

I have known Dave for many years. He was a Deputy Sheriff and a State Trooper for decades. I was really surprised to read about it in our newspaper.

Good topic. It is damn frigid out there!

I go through this with my wife from time to time, most recently yesterday. Though we don't have the severe cold here that ya'll do "up nawth", we do have dangers. One of the biggest is the danger of drowning, or capsizing and not being able to get to help in a timely manner because of the remoteness of the area. I enjoy drifting and jump shooting ducks. My favorite waterway is Brier Creek, what many would call a small river ..........swift and deep enough in most places to drown you. The way I drift, in a fiberglass kayak, does not lend itself to taking a partner ......... no room in the kayak. So, I go alone. My son meets me at the extraction point, we leave my truck there, and he takes me upstream a few miles to the insertion point, with my kayak.

I wait for weather like we have coming the remainder of this week, cold enough to freeze all the ponds in the area, which causes all the ducks to be on running water. The combination of swift areas, cold in the low 20s or teens, and the remoteness combine to lend a modicum of danger, I will concede. But, you consider the risks, mitigate those which you can, and if you're healthy enough, go kill ducks. Cell phone? yeah ......... but, good luck getting a signal down in there.

I don't know how many years I will be physically agile and healthy enough for these kinds of drifts, so while I can I am going to enjoy them. When I can't, I'll sit by a fire and read my hunting journal that I have kept for decades. (When I can't do that, maybe a grandson will sit and read it to me).

SRH