A hiker has been ridiculed after ignoring rescue calls because they were an unknown number after getting lost in a Colorado mountain. Hiking can be great to clear the mind and recharge your batteries, but this one hiker might not have been thinking clearly, it seems.
A hiker has been getting mocked on social media after a story detailed that they got lost on the highest peak in the state of Colorado, Mount Elbert, back on October 18, 2021.
Lucky for them, their identity has never been revealed.
According to Lake County Search and Rescue, the individual was reported missing at 8 p.m. on the same day after beginning their hike about 9 a.m.
When search parties went looking for them, there was no trace of the individual, so they assumed they had wandered off the track and had spent the night attempting to find it again.
Thankfully, after 24 hours of being lost, they discovered the route and their car, seemingly oblivious that a rescue attempt was even looking for them.
Lake County Search & Rescue wrote on Facebook about the event, saying, “Multiple attempts to contact the subject via their cell phone were unsuccessful.”
“One noteworthy takeaway is that the subject disregarded multiple phone calls from us since they did not recognize the number. If you are overdue according to your plan and receive repeated calls from an unknown number, please answer the phone; it could be a SAR team trying to check your safety!”
Amazing.
Imagine being stranded in the middle of the night and seeing your phone light up with a call and thinking, ‘naaaa, I don’t know that number, probably a telemarketer’.
Social media users undoubtedly found the situation amusing, prompting the Lake County Search and Rescue Facebook page to defend the individual, claiming that in an emergency, common sense isn’t often so common.
They wrote, “Please remember that what appears to be common sense in retrospect is not obvious to a subject in the moment when they are lost and panicking.”
