In January, a 15-year-old boy was rescued from a southern Utah trail, but left his backpack behind. Weeks later, a father and son found that backpack and used it to survive.

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A father is opening up about how he and his son survived a night in the Utah wilderness thanks to some help from a backpack left behind by a teen who previously got lost in the same area.