“It’s a miracle”: Father and son get lost during a walk, but left backpack offers salvation

Julian Hernandez and his son were looking for a place to spend the night after they had lost hours last week in the wilderness of Utah. They hardly had any food themselves, but had the incredible happiness to find a fully filled backpack that someone else had left behind.

The owner of the backpack turned out to be 15-year-old Levi Dittman, who was planning to explore Dammeron Valley. In his backpack he had brought a lot of equipment, an emergency tent, a first aid box and provisions. Levi, however, got lost, had to be saved and had left his heavy backpack.

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When the teenager and his mother went to pick up the backpack on 17 February at the Sheriff of Washington County, they got some of the things back. “Afterwards it turned out that we had gotten lost in the vicinity of the place where a month ago that 15-year-old had been lost,” Julian Hernandez told ABC4.com. Julian and his son did not have a backpack. “We didn’t have the right equipment,” said Julian. “At that moment I realized that I first had to look for shelter. While we were waiting for help, we suddenly found a backpack. “

The green backpack was left by Levi 45 days before. “It’s a miracle,” says his mother Gretchen Dittmann. “You must trust God. Sometimes God uses a backpack who has remained lying for a month and a half for a man who is in the dark and the cold and needs help, “the woman concludes.