That’s some proper prior planning. A lost hiker missing for three weeks in the California mountains miraculously survived when she stumbled upon an unlocked cabin that had been left open by its owner ...

Halfway into a recent weeklong backpacking trip through California’s Sierra Nevada, nine members of a scout troop and their scoutmaster came across a man standing alone in a meadow deep in the ...

Halfway into a recent weeklong backpacking trip through California's Sierra Nevada, nine members of a scout troop and their scoutmaster came across a man standing alone in a meadow deep in the ...

Boy Scout Troop 26 rescued a stranded 78-year-old backpacker who had spent a night without food, water or shelter in the Sierra. Douglas Montgomery, an experienced wilderness survivor and former ...