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Trapped 22 Days: How a Clear Jar and a Torn Logbook Saved Him
Trapped 22 Days: How a Clear Jar and a Torn Logbook Saved Him
The fear of being cut off with no help is immediate: a spotless two-piece canning jar on a charred railing held a folded torn logbook page that began, "if you are reading this and I am not here, start with page forty-one." How did a clean jar and a damaged notebook become the only link between a man trapped at 6,400 feet and the outside world, and who almost never found him?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that left a look‑out isolated for twenty‑two days after a fast-moving wildfire destroyed the only access road…
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