Out of the Wild: A Wilderness Survival Thriller by Hunt Jack

Author:Hunt, Jack [Hunt, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Survival | Thriller
Publisher: Direct Response Publishing
Published: 2020-12-22T05:00:00+00:00

18

Kara was lucky to get three hours of sleep. Between the noise of the bear in the forest, the bitter cold, and those inside the cabin trying to get comfortable, it turned out to be a bad night for sleep. She glanced at her watch, it was a little after seven, still dark. At that time of the year, sunrise happened later, there were fewer daylight hours. She sat in the silence thinking about the day ahead, how they would get out if they could. Even some of the most experienced hikers got lost in the backcountry, succumbing to the elements or hunger. As the sun rose, bands of light filtered through the gaps in the body of the plane. She shifted in the passenger seat and looked down.

Conversation turned to the threat.

No one was eager to be the first to find out if it was gone. Paul, figuring he’d saved the day, wasn’t in a hurry to go down and explore nor was Callaway so Kara volunteered, taking the flare gun with her once she was sure she couldn’t hear anything.

Frank said he hadn’t heard the bear in over two hours but that didn’t mean it wasn’t out there, biding its time. She climbed down, eyes scanning the trees. As she searched the perimeter of the camp, Kara noted large bear tracks, except there wasn’t just one set, two sets were smaller.

It dawned on her.

It wasn’t a predatory attack, the mother had been protecting her young.

Once she was certain it was safe, the others joined her.

With the assistance of Frank, she started another fire. They didn’t plan on staying any longer than an hour but the drop in temperature overnight meant they were all shivering. They figured a few minutes getting warm would also allow them time to plan out the route. While it was best advised to stay with a crashed plane and not wander off, as it was common for a wreck to be seen from the air within 24 hours, their circumstances were unusual. The plane was buried in the forest and no one had filed a flight plan, nor was anyone expecting to be found anytime soon. That’s what came from attempting to sabotage a flight, though getting Callaway or Paul to admit to tampering would have been a stretch. Kara still wasn’t sure if they’d gone that far.

It very well could have been a faulty engine.

Paul leaned against a tree, tapping the flare gun against his leg.

He’d been adamant it was better in his hands.

Around the fire, Callaway went over where he determined them to be and the best course of action. “The Chickaloon River is 25 miles southwest from here. If we can follow that, we can travel south to Chickaloon and the Glenn Highway. It’s about 80 miles north of Anchorage. We are looking at roughly a day if we keep moving.”

“A day?” Her father chuckled.

“Yeah. Even if we are walking at three miles per hour, twenty-five miles, you are looking at eight hours at least.

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