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>Be camping with family in Northern California
>Be day hiking with little sister
>Get way lost
>No phone signal; starting to get dark. Been gone for several hours
>Trying to stay cool to not freak out sister
>Make for higher ground to get signal
>Forest opens up to some backwoods, rundown, sparse trailer park
>Getting images of Deliverance in my head, but place seems deserted
>Finally signal
>Get on phone with local sheriff
>Start describing my location
>Sheriff asks a few questions and then says hold on
>Walks out his front door where we are standing on his driveway
No fucking joke. He invited us in and laughed about the whole thing, while his wife made us some food before he drove us back to our camp. Said it was the easiest SAR he'd ever done. I felt like an idiot, of course.
