Missing Houston Boy in Sam Houston Forrest

[Silvahalo]

I saw this in the news late last night and this morning. Nothing has turned up yet. Familiar with the area or not, Houston Forrest is no place to get lost.
Damn, it was below freezing in that area too. I hope this child is found alive and well...by some miracle. A name on the child has not yet been released.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Searchers spent the night looking for a 13-year-old boy missing, during freezing conditions, in the Sam Houston National Forest.

A dispatcher with the Walker County Sheriff's Office, Stacie Flores, told The Associated Press that the boy was reported missing shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday. She says the boy was with a junior ROTC unit from Crosby, about 20 miles northeast of Houston.

KHOU-TV reports the boy was participating, with dozens of other youths, in some type of map and compass exercise.

Dog teams were being used in the search.

Temperatures early Monday dipped into the 20s in the area.

The boy was among dozens of youths participating in a map-reading exercise. Searchers say he was familiar with wooded terrain.

U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Gay Ippolito (ip-uh-LEE'-toh) says Scouts and other groups sometimes use the forest for merit badges or other activities

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dw....1a589c41.html

[hanalis]

He was found safe:

A 13-year-old boy missing after he failed to return from a map-reading exercise was recovered safely Monday in the Sam Houston National Forest after spending the night alone in near-freezing temperatures.

Cody Moore appeared alert as he was seated on a stretcher in the back of an ambulance after his night in the woods.

A woman who declined to identify herself but appeared to be related to him said he was fine and eating a donut.

"He said he had a blast," she said as she hustled into an SUV and drove away. She described him as looking wonderful.

"He came out waving his hands and walking on his own," Adams said. "The helicopter hovered over him and the ground crew went in to get him."

The chopper had joined the search Monday after people on horseback and using tracking dogs had failed to find him. The boy was reported missing about 5 p.m. Sunday. Temperatures before dawn Monday had slipped below freezing in the area, where the search went on through the night. He was recovered about 10:30 a.m., about 24 hours after he was last seen.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6289528.html

[PoongyPrincess]

Oh wow, such good news! I hope the newspapers publish his story so we can all read how he survived those conditions.

[jo_momma_82]

It is sooooo nice to read something good for a change !

[Silvahalo]

Hanalis, I was just about to post an update....thank you! great news on this young one. So very glad!

[Sister Iroz]

[QUOTE]WALKER COUNTY, Texas -- A boy who got lost in the Sam Houston National Forest Sunday is now safe with his family. [/QUOTE
http://www.khou.com/news/local/montg....1a87a6e9.html