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#1 MarkBC

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Posted 04 March 2019 - 03:19 AM

Sunriver man stranded in snow survives [4 days] on taco sauce

Bend Bulletin, March 2, 2019

 

A happy-ending story from Central Oregon -- with a lesson.  Next time you're at the pickup window at Taco Time/Bell, and you get 10 packets of hot sauce for just 2 burritos, don't reject them -- be grateful!  Stash them in your glove box...just in case.

 

 


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Posted 04 March 2019 - 11:13 PM

Isn't it 7 days without water, 30 days without food? Or something like that. But I'm sure those little packets saved his life :)

 

So I should replace the MRE's with sauce packets. I dunno about that :)


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Posted 05 March 2019 - 12:26 AM

News stories these days..........................................make the taco sauce the grab. I want to know what led up to and how he got stuck. The decisions that caused the incident. We could learn from that. I am not replacing my old hard power bars at the bottom of my pack with taco sauce.

 

Mr. BC, thanks for the story. :)


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#4 MarkBC

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Posted 05 March 2019 - 12:47 AM

Yeah, the "taco sauce" makes it a silly story...but I wouldn't have posted it otherwise.  :P ...since stuck/stranded-in-snow stories are common around here this time of year.  

 

Personally, I think packets of "honey sauce" or butter sauce from KFC would provide more heat-generating calories than salsa.

 

But I have a couple of cliff bars in my glove box. :)


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Posted 05 March 2019 - 01:17 AM

In the winter Sioux and I carry toilet paper, water, wine and scotch along with a double sleeping bag in the Highlander. A 'compatible couple' (43 years married) can last a long time on those five necessities!


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Posted 05 March 2019 - 03:21 AM

We carry several pounds of the Lady's homemade cookies. Those will get us happily through anything. :)


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Posted 05 March 2019 - 03:38 AM

Maybe it's time to think outside the bun and make a run for the border.

Yo quiero Taco Bell!
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#8 JaSAn

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Posted 05 March 2019 - 04:17 AM

I grew up in Northern Minnesota.  I have always had survival gear in my vehicles.  I'm surprised more people don't; your camping gear won't do you any good in a box in the basement.  I was stranded for more than one night in my car when I was young.


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Posted 05 March 2019 - 04:26 AM

We carry several pounds of the Lady's homemade cookies. Those will get us happily through anything. :)


That is good to know the next time we travel with you.... yum cookies...

I always need some kind of food stash if I'm going somewhere.
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Posted 05 March 2019 - 04:51 PM

Taco sauce is better than nothing I guess! Agreed with what was he  doing there unprepared in the first place comments!! But like has been said above, most of us always have emergency stuff in our rigs just to cover those "getting stuck"  times,when we "wander on over the hill" times to smell the flowers and get stuck! For me it was the  old standby, 'C" rats for years and later on the new fire rats especially "beanie weenies.". That in turn was replaced by MRE's. ... and always had a few cans of peanuts and a small bottle of whiskey for snake bite on board <_< ! Cookies sound nice though! Seems to me Mark BC started a good thread on this subject years ago called "getting stuck".  It was out in the High Rock/Black Rock NW Nevada country somewhere!  Ski also had one about meeting an "unplanned for" bear once that also started a good discussion. Boy this site sure has a lot of good info based on years of its' users  mistakes !

 

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