Over the weekend, a missing hiker from Texas was found after six days of wandering the lava fields on the Big Island of Hawai'i. It seems the 41 year-old man decided to see the lava flowing into the ocean. At night. Alone. Without telling anyone where he was going or what he was going to do.
Rescuers spent days combing the barren waste land trying to find him but it was a 15 year-old boy, flying in a tour helicopter, that finally saw the man's distress signal.
The Boy Scouts have a saying about always being prepared. Perhaps this is the lesson to take from this man's predicament.
Aloha!
