Originally published at Notes From The Bunker. You can comment here or there.

May 08, 2011 I posted about this unfortunate couple.

Succinctly, an older Canadian couple gets stuck in the middle of nowhere. Husband goes off on foot to get help and is never seen again. Wife stays with the vehicle and is found alive seven weeks later. My prescient comment:

I’m going to say that the odds of finding the husband alive are absolutely nil. In fact, I’ll be surprised if they find a body within the next few weeks. Probably be one of those cases where they have to wait until hunting season when some hunter finds it.

I was, of course, right. Behold:

ELKO, Nev. • Two hunters found the remains Saturday of a Canadian man who was stranded in remote northern Elko County in March 2011 along with his wife, the Elko County Sheriff’s Office reported Sunday in a news release.

I’m a bit surprised they even found a body at all. Lotta space out there for a guy to go missing…especially when the local fauna scatter the bones all over the place.  If I had to guess, I’d say cause of death was likely hypothermia. I’d be interested in knowing how far he got from the car…and, I’m sure they’ll say the body was found only a half mile from a resort hotel or a pay phone or some other thing that woulda saved him.

Equip your vehicle and stay with your vehicle. That’s the lesson.