Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Twenty-one Boy Scouts and three leaders from Troop 47 in Los Angeles drinking hot chocolate after being marooned overnight on a bluff 1000 feet above the canyon floor in the Upper Arroyo Seco Canyon. The scouts became lost on their way back during a seven mile hike between Switzer's Camp and Oake Wilde. The troop lit matches to signal a rescue party of parents, deputy sheriffs, and county prisoners. One of the leaders, David Swaim, suffered a minor heart attack two miles from camp so the scouts carried him the rest of the way on a stretcher. Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Boy Scouts Text from original nitrate sleeve: Boy Scouts - Troop 47 Geo. Washington Dist.; Lost in Mountains - near Switzerland Canyon - 1946
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz00280q33
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No linguistic content
Subject
Lifestyle Eating & drinking--California--Los Angeles Lost persons--California--Los Angeles Hiking--California--Los Angeles Rescues--California--Los Angeles Disaster Youth Boys--California--Los Angeles Boy Scouts of America
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