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Sunday, July 24, 2005


How not to have a great Hawaiian vacation.
An Austin man who spent five days lost in a lava field near the Big Island's Kilauea volcano said Saturday that he survived by squeezing water from moss he found on trees sprinkled across an otherwise barren landscape.

Gilbert Dewey Gaedcke III was rescued Friday afternoon after a helicopter spotted him stumbling across the rocky lava, trying to attract attention with a mirror from his camera.

He had been missing since last Sunday night, when he decided to take a hike across the barren and desolate lava fields to get a closer look at the active volcano.

The 41-year-old experienced hiker said he saw no water, but there were pockets of junglelike vegetation sprinkled throughout the old lava flow.
What a freakin' moron. Experienced hiker? My ass. No one experienced is going to get stuck out in the lava for three days. There's three little letters Gaedcke should look into: GPS, and even the model under $100 has a backlit screen. Much easier than licking moss for three days.



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