Less than a year before, in those same mountains, Kevin Bardsley's 12-year-old son had taken a wrong turn during a hike with his Boy Scout troop. His body was never recovered, and Bardsley couldn't bear to think of another child meeting the same fate. So he set up a foundation in his son's name, bought GPS tracking equipment and trained volunteers to be ready to search in minutes. Now, with the clock ticking, he rounded them up. Using satellite maps, Bardsley plotted the search efforts, then sent teams out to comb the dense woods.
"You don't need to relive this," the lost boy's father told Bardsley.
"No," he said. "This is where I'm meant to be." The next morning, when a man on an ATV found the boy four miles away, and unharmed, Bardsley knew he was right.
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