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[NE] Lost mushroom hunter rescued from mud * 1
    #14481969 - 05/20/11 12:02 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Couple "Humbled" By Water Rescue
May 19, 2011 - wowt.com



A fun outing to look for mushrooms turned tense as an Omaha woman was lost for hours and rescue teams worked to find her. It happened Wednesday night near King Lake, along the Elkhorn River.

It all started as a hunt for morel mushrooms, a lot of people like to look alongside rivers and in forested areas. Michelle Smith and Thomas Hawke says their hunting trip was routine, something they do every year.

They headed out around 5:00 Wednesday evening, split up to look for the mushrooms, and then decided to meet back at the truck around dusk.

Smith got turned around, and couldn't find her way back to her husband. "I thought I was going to die," she said. "I was scared, I just wanted to get out and see my family, and I prayed like I've never prayed before."

As she walked along the river, she got stuck in some mud, which went up to her waist.

Hawke was watching and waiting for her at their meeting place. "I'm thinking, ok, it's getting a little darker, a little darker, and finally, it's pitch black, and I'm like, well she ain't here yet."

He called 911. The Douglas County Sheriff's Department, rescue crews, and helicopter all began to search for Smith.

"I was going through the worst case scenario, cause when they started looking down there in the river, I was like, no, no, no," said Hawke.

Smith, who had lost her cell phone, was turning her lighter on and off, in hopes someone would see it. "He said he'd seen my light flickering, and they finally found me, and oh gosh, I've never been so happy to see a police officer in my life," she said.

Smith was about three miles from the truck, and stuck out on an island. Rescue crews had to build a "bridge" of logs and tree branches to free her from the mud.

Shortly after 1:00 Thursday morning, Douglas County rescue teams pulled her from the creek, nearly three hours after the call to 911.

Paramedics checked her out on the scene and she returned home with her husband.

"Seeing my son for the first time, and seeing her was the two best things I ever seen in my life," said Hawke.

Smith said she was embarrassed, but wanted to share her story just to remind everyone to let others know where you are. As for mushroom hunting again, Smith isn't too sure about that. "I don't know if I ever want to go mushroom hunting again, if I do you're not leaving my side this time," she said to Hawke.

Smith said she is able to laugh about the situation now, even though she was terrified for several hours. Hawke teased her about her will to keep the mushrooms she had already picked. "I even bet the deputy, I said, you know I bet you a dollar she still has her bag of mushrooms with her, even though she lost everything else, I bet she's got those mushrooms."

Smith said she did have the bag, until she had to crawl across the make-shift bridge. That's when she left them behind.

The couple says it was a very humbling experience, and they are grateful to those who came to help.

"I can't express my feelings on how grateful I am, my heart goes out them, my praises and my prayers go out to them," said Hawke.

"I don't think I can find the words to, to thank them, how do you thank someone for their job?" asked Smith. "I just think they're very special people to do that."

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Re: [NE] Lost mushroom hunter rescued from mud [Re: veggie]
    #14482063 - 05/20/11 12:23 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

They say smoking kills, but in this case, her smoking habit (and need to have a lighter at all times) may have been the only thing that saved her.  Moral of the story is if you are going shroom hunting in muddy areas, bring some smokables and a light.

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Re: [NE] Lost mushroom hunter rescued from mud [Re: veggie]
    #14482099 - 05/20/11 12:32 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

that shit almost happened to me i was knee deep in some kind of peat moss bog shit this morel season but i got myself out.


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Re: [NE] Lost mushroom hunter rescued from mud [Re: Psychoslut]
    #14482179 - 05/20/11 12:56 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Being lost and being rescued are wonderful things if they happen it that order.
I've been lost and it's scary.
This is a good read and good advice to anyone who hunts morels outside of places that they know.
Getting lost is part of why I loose myself looking for morel mushrooms but being lost is a darn upsetting thing.
I liked reading this story and I'm glad that there were intelligent and kind folks that rescued her.
A story like this is so much better than a story about how badges with hand/machine guns broke into another house and shot someone and were unlucky enough to make the news or they'd have gotten away with it.
A morel hunter that was helped by the ones lucky enough to be their help in a time of need; now that's good news.
God bless them all.


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Re: [NE] Lost mushroom hunter rescued from mud [Re: veggie]
    #14482873 - 05/20/11 05:37 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

"I thought I was going to die," she said. "I was scared, I just wanted
to get out and see my family, and I prayed like I've never prayed
before."

sounds totally like they were trippin face!

mushroom spirit lookin out for you ftw!


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Re: [NE] Lost mushroom hunter rescued from mud [Re: veggie]
    #14483623 - 05/20/11 10:14 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Lol sounds like they're no fans of the police.

Desert father - no need for psychedelics in a tense and deadly situation like that.  You'd be high naturally I imagine.


This is an example of why it's always bad to travel alone in an area that you aren't 100% familiar with, even then it's good to have a canine companion in the case of wild animals or wild humans.


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Re: [NE] Lost mushroom hunter rescued from mud [Re: Humility]
    #14483873 - 05/20/11 11:12 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

just my point exactly!


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What she said :
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Re: [NE] Lost mushroom hunter rescued from mud [Re: desert father]
    #14486609 - 05/20/11 08:57 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

man that would be an awful way to go gagging on mud trying to get air? shiit.

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Re: [NE] Lost mushroom hunter rescued from mud [Re: plustax]
    #14487121 - 05/20/11 10:27 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

morel mushrooms are psychedelic? if not, what are they? i was under the impression the psylocybin variety did not grow in nebraska :themoreyouknow:


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Re: [NE] Lost mushroom hunter rescued from mud [Re: owls] * 1
    #14487192 - 05/20/11 10:37 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

morel mushrooms are delicious, they look kind of like oval brains on a stick.

They are a real delicacy around these parts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morchella


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