VICTORIA—Bear Henry says they survived more than 70 days stuck in a camper van on a remote Vancouver Island mountain forest road with only a few days’ worth of canned beans, raw rice, cat food and melted snow. Henry said Friday they are about 30 kilograms lighter than when they left Victoria Nov. 27 to find a camp in the Fairy Creek area northwest of Victoria where people had been protesting old-growth logging. Henry, 37, who is a two-spirit Indigenous person and uses gender-neutral pronouns, said they spent their days napping, daydreaming and trying to stay sane in their van, while hearing search helicopters on the other side of the mountain. “I was just trying to go camping in Fairy Creek and visit the camps that were up there,” they said. “It was just raining so hard; I literally blew past the Caycuse (camp). Henry said the gravel road kept …
Lost in the BC Woods for 74 Days, Bear Henry Thankful to Forestry Workers’ Rescue
February 12, 2022
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