Here is yet another story about another missing scout.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050625/ap_on_...s/missing_scout
This one fell into a river and has not been seen again yet.

Why does it seem like a lot of scouts go missing places ? I am sure they are a small % of the number of young people spending time in these places. If you count up all the kids there with parents and stuff I am sure it would be a much higher number. Yet you do not hear about them going missing near as much as scouts do.
Could it maybe be that the scouts think they know more then they really do so end up getting in over their heads more often then none scouts ? Or could it be that we hear about them more often as the news people think it makes a better story ?

OMG! This is crazy! This is not good! I wish this would never happen!

Proximity to other people.

Your kid goes missing on a family outing you know, any one in the immediate area that you see and ask/ tell knows. in an hour the police know,after a while SAR knows. smaller circle.

A scout goes missing and in an hour hundreds of people know. the other scouts on the hike, then all the scouts in the camp then all of the family's of the scouts at the camp.then the neighbors of the scouts in the camp. Geometrically. The press find out then the rest of the world.

NOI

i'm thinking that maybe the adults that are with them have unrealistic expectations of how 'woods-wise' (kinda like streetwise) ( i didnt know how else to say it) the kids are.
just because a kid is attending the scout meetings doesnt mean the important info is sinking in. short attention spans

jmo gael

I've always noticed when we took the kids camping and we would go hiking I would always watch the kids during hiking and noticed they would always want to get too close to the hiking trail edge to look at rushing waters below. It used to make me crazy. I watch my husband do the same exact thing and he makes me crazy too. I always find myself telling him to get away from being too close to the edge of a hiking trail just like I would have to do with the kids. I don't know if it's poor judgement of what is surrounding them or what the deal is, but I would think the same thing comes into play when anyone gets lost in the woods - poor judgement of surroundings. I think it probably takes years to develop good judgement in that environment. With my husband, I think he just carelessly and foolishly believes something isn't going to happen. I think, oh yea? It might. I've noticed even when he's walking around the house, he never looks at where his feet are going and is constantly walking into things. He is constantly apologizing to the cats for walking into them. Drives me nuts! Drives the cats nuts too!