Troop 26 came across the stranded man while backpacking through the Emigrant Wilderness in California on Aug. 6
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- A Boy Scout troop rescued Douglas Montgomery after he lost his bearings in the Emigrant Wilderness in California
- Montgomery, 78, was alone and had lost his backpack containing his food and GPS-enabled communicator when Santa Barbara-based Troop 26 found him on Aug. 6
- “I was getting colder and colder. And that’s when [Troop 26] came along,” Montgomery recalled, per the Los Angeles Times
A Boy Scout troop is being praised after helping to rescue a 78-year-old man who was lost in the wilderness in California.
The Santa Barbara-based troop, Troop 26, consisting of nine members aged around 12 and five adult leaders, was on day four of a six-night trek through the High Sierra north of Yosemite, when they came across a man alone near Long Lake in the Emigrant Wilderness on Aug. 6, the Los Angeles Times, KTLA and Santa Barbara Independent reported.
The man, identified as Douglas Montgomery, had been injured after falling into a lake. Having rested overnight with plans to set off home the next day, Montgomery had walked miles in the wrong direction after losing his backpack containing his food and GPS-enabled communicator, according to the outlets…