Missing Selma man recalls surviving for weeks in the snow-covered mountains

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A occurrence successful the mountains.

In his ain words, Ron Dailey, the missing Selma man, retracts his steps from the wilderness.

On October 13th, Dailey went retired for a time of hunting adjacent Swamp Lake Trail- eastbound of Dinkey Creek.

"I've been up 3/4, halfway going cervid hunting up determination for each my life. But it's a rocky trial," said Dailey.

Dailey said helium decided to question down from much than 10,000 feet of elevation. But helium made a incorrect turn. On his mode down, helium said helium damaged his truck.

Action News obtained this video from a Central Valley 4-wheeler radical showing Dailey's damaged vehicle.

"There's a ton of immense rocks and drop-offs and things. It's a precise unsafe road," said Dailey.

He recovered himself stuck connected the rocky mountain. With tons of water, constricted nutrient and snowy weather, Dailey utilized his motortruck arsenic shelter.

After weeks of waiting and adjacent proceeding helicopters nearby, Dailey says God told him it was clip to spell home.

He walked for astir of the time earlier a miracle.

"I go, 'Lord, you gotta bring a conveyance up this roadworthy close present to prevention my beingness oregon I gotta halt and physique a occurrence to past the night. I'm not gonna past retired successful this clasp without a occurrence oregon without a car coming up. And helium goes, look up, and I look up and there's a Tahoe determination with the headlight shining connected me," said Dailey.

While Dailey was missing, a monolithic effort to find him was underway.

Dozens of volunteers scoured the upland assemblage for him and respective instrumentality enforcement agencies each pitched successful to bring Dailey home.

"The outpouring of emotion successful this community, the religion community. The Fresno County rescue radical are conscionable phenomenal. I could not judge the aerial nationalist guard, I could not judge what was going on." said Dailey.

Dailey was taken to Clovis Community Medical Center, wherever helium was yet cleared to spell home.

He takes afloat work for getting mislaid successful the mountains and said it's thing he'll ne'er bash again.

"I made a committedness to the Lord. I spell 'Lord, I won't termination nary much of your animals, I'm done'. And so, my woman said nary much hunting and I said, 'Honey, that's not a problem, '" said Dailey.

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