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8/31/2014

MEMBERS OF Boy Scout Troop 556, sponsored by St. Paul's United Methodist Church, stop for a roadside lunch en route from Ponca City to Altomito, Colo., and the trail head to Red Lake. Making the trip were Scout Master Lowry Blakeburn; Assistant Scout Master David Parks; Committee Chairman Jason Hicks; Zac Ladner, Brady Ladner, Austin Hicks, Michael Hooper, Christian Branch, Noah Henley and Devon Brannon.

BOY SCOUT Brady Ladner pauses for a starting-line selfie with his father Zac Ladner. They were joined by three adults and five other Boy Scouts for a week-long hike and camping trip to south central Colorado's Red Lake.

ZAC LADNER captured this image of the trail as the troop and their leaders set out on the first morning of the hike. Brady Ladner would soon begin feeling the effects of Acute Mountain Sickness.

ZAC LADNER used his cell phone cameras GPS settings to capture the latitude and longitude coordinates of the locations he photographed while he and 11-year-old son Brady Ladner were lost in the southern Colorado Rockies. Once safely home, the Pioneer Technology Center BITE program instructor used a satellite image of the terrain to pinpoint their route.

THICK TANGLES of brush made hiking very difficult. Zac took this image after the pair crossed the top of the waterfall (out of sight behind the jutting rock face) and made the white-knuckle climb down the jagged cliff. Zacs greatest fear was either Brady or he sustaining serious injury without finding help.

FROM LEFT, Brady Ladner, rescuer John, and Zac Ladner take a commemorative photograph as the Ladners unexpected wilderness trek comes to an end at Trujillo Meadows Reservoir. The Ladners spent three nights and three and a half days lost in the Colorado wilderness below Red Lake.

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