More hunters call for help in Duluth area

[hammAR]

More hunters call for help in Duluth area
11/23/2007 7:35:26 AM
Associated Press

DULUTH -- This year a dozen hunters were reported missing in northern Minnesota's St. Louis County, more than double the number who get lost during most hunting seasons.

The lost hunters required help from the county's 65-member volunteer rescue squad.

Sheriff's Capt. Tom Crossmon heads the rescue squad. He says that during most years the number of lost hunters is five or fewer, sometimes none. Fewer hunters had been getting lost because they used cell phones and GPS to find their way out of the woods until this year's increase.

The rescue squad found all of the lost hunters it went looking for this year, although one man had died from natural causes.

[tt3]

And people think I'm silly for having a compass in my pocket of my field jacket. Yup, a good ol' Boy Scout compass.

[DeanC]

It doesn't take much to get turned around on a cloudy day. Your heart rate can jump pretty quick and panic can set in faster than you think.

[tt3]

Yup, batteries can run out and electronics can be broken, but its pretty hard to mess up a compass. I'm just sayin'.

[hammAR]

I know that there are areas around Virginia and Hibbing that your compass will not help you...........
unless you are Jack Sparrow..........

[Rem700]

Aha the spinning compasses of Virginia