"Lost" Hawaii Hiker "Found" After 2 Weeks?

Moral of the story....

Other than Banana Bread, all LetsRun posters have zero concept of how they would survive without WiFi, their Apple products, and soy lattes.

Banana Bread wrote:

All you need to do is have a piece of cloth(maybe your tshirt) or leaves and put it on top of the water as it boils. When it condenses into steam the tshirt will trap the water before it escapes. You can squeze the tshirt above your mouth and water will literally fly into it.

If I get a good steam going, I'm taking the opportunity to steam my face, get my pores open and flushed. Gotta look good when I get rescued.

Banana Bread wrote:

I drink coconut water but many people don't so I was explaining me strategy for people who don't like coconuts. Why is everyone interrogating me? I didn't make the girl lost.

+1

Banana Bread wrote:

I drink coconut water but many people don't so I was explaining me strategy for people who don't like coconuts. Why is everyone interrogating me? I didn't make the girl lost.

Um it's cause you're a dum dum who doesn't know the difference between a cube and a square and you think you're a wilderness survival expert but you clearly thought you could drink seawater

Mr. Poop wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

I drink coconut water but many people don't so I was explaining me strategy for people who don't like coconuts. Why is everyone interrogating me? I didn't make the girl lost.

Um it's cause you're a dum dum who doesn't know the difference between a cube and a square and you think you're a wilderness survival expert but you clearly thought you could drink seawater

I would survive better than most people, and going to the coast is good because passing boats will see you and see your signal fire. I know what a cube and a square is. I was making a point about a hypotetical situation to illustrate how far you can possibly be from land. I guess with a circle of 727 square miles it would be a bit more than 15 miles so 2 hours of running.

Mr. Poop wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

I drink coconut water but many people don't so I was explaining me strategy for people who don't like coconuts. Why is everyone interrogating me? I didn't make the girl lost.

Um it's cause you're a dum dum who doesn't know the difference between a cube and a square and you think you're a wilderness survival expert but you clearly thought you could drink seawater

He also doesn't know the difference between a square and a circle (hint: a square doesn't have a *diameter*), or what happens when you boil salt water,... or pretty much *anything*.

Seriously, does LR actively *recruit* the stupidest people in America, and pay them to post 20 times a day, or what?

yep, brains wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

You can use a coconut shell to make a pot. Pots literally grow on trees in Hawaii. You just have to have the brains to know how to use the resources.

And then you are going to apply fire to the coconut shell to boil the water?

Not sure about coconut shells but many combustible materials can have fire applied to them when filled with water. A birchbark pot can be used to boil water for example. As long as the flames do not lick above the water line.

You can see video of people boiling water in a plastic water bottle.

Banana Bread wrote:

I drink coconut water but many people don't so I was explaining me strategy for people who don't like coconuts. Why is everyone interrogating me? I didn't make the girl lost.

But you obviously have never dealt with a raw coconut. Your suggestions are ridiculous unless you are like me and run with a machete at all times or are a Pacific Islander with lifetime experience harvesting and opening fresh coconuts.

I've seen 4-5 year olds scrambling up cliffs with their parents in the French Alps ~5-8 k from the nearest trailhead. Just because American's coddle their children doesn't mean a kid can't walk for 4-5 hours.

Something Fragrant wrote:

So your Dad thought it was a good idea to take a 4-year-old and a 7-year-old on a multi-mile trail hike? Even without the getting lost part, the distance you described is way beyond what's advisable for a 4-year-old. I call BS.

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LetsRun.com should sponsor an event in which they drop Banana Bread in the middle of a densely forested desert island for 3 weeks and if he survives, Bekele presents him with a blue ribbon, and if not, Bekele eulogizes at his funeral. It’s a win/win, really. Bekele can’t be demanding very large appearance fees at this point, so it’s far more feasible (and entertaining) than their downhill sub-2 scheme.

DJ Dadblast wrote:

LetsRun.com should sponsor an event in which they drop Banana Bread in the middle of a densely forested desert island for 3 weeks and if he survives, Bekele presents him with a blue ribbon, and if not, Bekele eulogizes at his funeral. It’s a win/win, really. Bekele can’t be demanding very large appearance fees at this point, so it’s far more feasible (and entertaining) than their downhill sub-2 scheme.

A densely forested Desert, eh?

Some folks don't know the difference between desert and deserted.

Banana Bread for Dessert wrote:

DJ Dadblast wrote:

LetsRun.com should sponsor an event in which they drop Banana Bread in the middle of a densely forested desert island for 3 weeks and if he survives, Bekele presents him with a blue ribbon, and if not, Bekele eulogizes at his funeral. It’s a win/win, really. Bekele can’t be demanding very large appearance fees at this point, so it’s far more feasible (and entertaining) than their downhill sub-2 scheme.

A densely forested Desert, eh?

Some folks don't know the difference between desert and deserted.

Nah I’d just worked 9 hours in a hot kitchen so my brain wasn’t working so good. My bad though—I look like a FOOL.

I read on through comments on an article that said the person who found her knew her personally and was from out of state and that he found her shortly after her father put up an award.

But, lets get back to disgusting coconut water versus boiled salt water. Personally, I prefer boiling mango juice to drink the evaporations of mango meat.

DJ Dadblast wrote:

LetsRun.com should sponsor an event in which they drop Banana Bread in the midd

A densely forested Desert, eh?

Some folks don't know the difference between desert and deserted.

I do .

Desert is like cocoa moose.

Deserted is when you don’t eat it .

You have obviously never asked a female to read a map.

Banana Bread wrote:

Fire wasn't invented it was discovered. And even if it was invented I wasn't implying that it was invented to boil seawater. I said that if you were stranded and got to a coast one of the uses of the fire you would make would be to boil the water to make it drinkable. You need to learn basic comprehension.

Au contraire my dim witted friend, it is you who needs to learn basic comprehension.

I literally put quotes around "invented" so you could be left in no doubt that no one was claiming fire was invented. Sadly your comprehension skills obviously failed here since you proceeded to tell me fire was not invented! Then you proceed to contextualise your use of fire which was the very thing I was joking about the very lack of in your previous post!

See if you can comprehend this - Moran!

Banana Bread wrote:

I would survive better than most people, and going to the coast is good because passing boats will see you and see your signal fire. I know what a cube and a square is. I was making a point about a hypotetical situation to illustrate how far you can possibly be from land. I guess with a circle of 727 square miles it would be a bit more than 15 miles so 2 hours of running.

If I am ever in a survival situation I can look back on this thread for advice on what not to do.

I'm give up explaining everything to people. I'm interested in watching survival tv shows so wanted to discuss a hypothetical situation here but get attacked instead. I know how to survive. I was thinking of people like my brother Buck who wouldn't touch a fruit if it saved him. He would never go near coconut so I wanted to imagine how someone like him could survive. Even if I didn't use the fire to boil water myself I would use the fire for the signal and for cooking fish in the coast.