As our government continues to close up all of the loop holes in “open land”, the place left for anomaly human behavior to occur is in the relatively secluded areas of our national parks and forests.
It is no wonder then that when an adult individual that becomes depressed and looks for solitude, he or she finds himself or herself being a rescue victim of our park rangers and other searchers of the National Park Service.
It seems that more and more of these stories are showing up. Hopefully, as the days get even colder, people will wait until late next spring to get that depressed.
Have you ever been depressed enough to do what Christopher David Beach did and just walk into the wilderness with no plan for food, water or shelter?
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Man Found in Shenandoah National Park
Shenandoah National Park
Posted: 6:20 PM Nov 2, 2007
Last Updated: 6:50 PM Nov 2, 2007
Reporter: Kelly Creswell
A man that went missing Sunday evening in the Shenandoah National Park has been found and is now in stable condition at Winchester Medical Center.
Search crews found Christopher David Beach inside a culvert underneath Route 211 in the Shenandoah National Park around 11 o'clock Friday morning. Park crews received a report Sunday from Beach's fiancee saying that Beach was feeling depressed, and he walked off into the woods.
After five days of searching within the Shenandoah National Park, crews were able to find 40-year-old Beach, deep inside the culvert.
About 100 searchers from nearly a dozen agencies did a grid search in the Shenandoah National Park, narrowing it to the 211-corridor. But firefighter Don Savedge says finding Beach would be a challenge.
"Just difficult, deep, nasty terrain," says Savedge.
After making one last check in a culvert, Savedge thought he saw something deep inside.
"I called out, said hey there, and he answered back and then I called out his name, and got him to give me his last name, and then we knew we had the person that we were looking for," says Savedge.
With temperatures getting down to about 28 degrees, and Beach only wearing a t-shirt and pants, Dave Schneider says hiding inside a culvert kept him warm. As Schneider climbed in to help, the first thing Beach asked for was something to drink.
"He was alert, oriented, and concerned about family; happy that someone was there to help him," says Schneider, from the Zion National Park. "And I just reassured him that we were here to help you."
This was the last place crews checked before they finished searching this area, and thankfully they found Beach. But if they hadn't, they would have started a whole new search effort Saturday.
Sources; Google, 3WHSV