A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax

Re:A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax by ghaff on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @11:57AM (#22675655)

Something about the sequence of events in the article is weird or I'm just missing something.

They got a water taxi to the bay on Isle Royale that was close to Siskiwit Lake and then portaged their canoe to the lake. (Which is indeed fairly close.)

Then:

>After canoeing back from Ryan Island, mother and son got well and truly lost. At some point during their 18 miles of hiking, they lost the trail.

Where did the canoe go? Why wouldn't they have been being picked up and returned the same way they got there? There's lots of mention of GPS coordinates. Yet this story doesn't bother to mention that, I don't know, they got lost because both of their phones ran out of juice? (Because the story seems to take place well after the time when most people had smartphones and they were clearly using GPS in some form.)

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Re:A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax by vidanay on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:01PM (#22675698)

The story is as fishy as the Northern Pike slime that is abundant around there.

(Or at least very poorly told and edited)

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Re:A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax by ghaff on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:36PM (#22676065)

It's possible someone got confused somewhere in the telling (e.g. they got lost on a hike unrelated to canoeing out to Ryan Island) but it doesn't really make sense as written.

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Re:A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax by mark-r on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:32PM (#22676028)

I have a solar panel that can charge a phone. They're not hard to find.

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