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🗓️ 8 August 2014
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0:00.0 | It's about 530. We are in Point Race California. We are in the middle of the woods and we are lost. |
0:15.0 | Hey, it's Mike. |
0:18.0 | Ian and I are out of the office this week, |
0:22.0 | but we didn't want to leave you without at least one how to tip |
0:25.6 | while we're out. And Ian, I don't know exactly where you are, but this may come in handy for you. |
0:32.4 | This happened to my son Axel and me while we were out on a |
0:36.5 | hike. |
0:37.5 | Hi I'm Axel. And so to set this scene for you, Axel and I are at the end of a six mile hike with my wife and four |
0:48.0 | other little kids. There were two five-year-olds... |
0:52.3 | No, five, six, eight... two five-year-olds. |
0:53.0 | Five, six, eight, and seven. |
0:55.0 | So these are little kids and they're exhausted. |
0:59.0 | They've walked farther than they've probably ever walked in their entire lives, |
1:02.0 | and now we're on this kind of gravel |
1:04.8 | trail that looks endless. |
1:07.4 | So I've made this decision to leave the trail and go cross country. I'm using Google Maps and according to |
1:16.4 | Google Maps if we just head to the left we will hit a road that will take us to the parking lot where our car is. |
1:27.1 | So we just took off into the trees, into the bushes, up a hill, and we figured out a way to find a path where there isn't a path. |
1:38.0 | There's no marked trail here. |
1:39.0 | We're probably breaking all sorts of laws, but everybody else is is tired we need to get the car what is our |
1:45.4 | what is our method follow the deer paths and how do you know because of all the |
1:50.2 | poop that's right when you follow the deer path but that you all the |
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