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If the environment got all three of them close together, I'd expect a contributing factor, like they were all really stoned. Although in the mystery a couple years ago, the heat stroke did get all three, and the dog.Quote:
Originally Posted by beaterdit
I imagine there will be more info, once the Group Found story gets matched up with its corresponding Group Lost story.
Being close to a popular snowmobile route might not have helped if there was a big enough weather event that snowmobilers weren't getting out much. I recall a hypothermia fatality (one or two other group members survived; inexperienced XC skiers wearing blue jeans) close to Castle Pass in CA, 2 miles, all downhill, to Interstate 80 via one of the country's most popular ski/snowshoe/posthole trails, (and one mile from a then-unlocked Sierra Club hut); but with a storm having just rolled in, all those other recreationists ditched the area and the guys were on their own long enough to get into trouble.
People keep saying this or that was close by, but like with McCandless, if you don't know shit is there it might as well be a million miles away.
Yeah. Setting aside McCandless (who purposely didn't bring maps, as part of his adventure concept), it seems like most people these days rely on electronic maps and navigation, if anything. And smartphones have a tendency to die suddenly and unexpectedly in cold weather.
Seriously.Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
Heh.Quote:
Originally Posted by beaterdit
Until we know more about who they are and why they were there we have no idea what the odds of them having these issues are/would be.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
SJG, do you think lax firearm laws and unlocked cars were a contributing factor?
Do you think carrying a gun would have saved them?Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
Depends on if they were vaxxed I reckon...
McCandless didn’t die because he didn’t know where he was; he died from malnutrition and underestimating how big the river he needed to cross would be during melt.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobz
It’s been a long time since I read the book, but I think you’re correct that he didn’t bring communication devices as that would be “cheating.”
Dude made it quite a while without much. Seems like apples and oranges to compare a truly wild locale in Alaska with a FS road a few miles outside of Pitkin.
Side note, myself and a lot of other outdoor enthusiasts know those woods reasonably well because I spent a month there getting a Wilderness EMT. The Wilderness Medicine Institute used to call Pitkin home.
Hemlock garnish.
Wasn’t there a river crossing about a couple miles away (basket crossing?) that he didn’t know about because he didn’t have a map?Quote:
Originally Posted by lowsparkco
That's my recollection as well
Maybe. I stand corrected.
Still, quite a bit more isolated that Pitkin.
These folks were 3 miles on a dirt road away from a town.
Darwin got three aces in that hand is my overview.
I got my EMT and a lot of pinstripes on my truck there back in the day. Great course, nice locale. Was wondering if they were still up there.Quote:
Originally Posted by lowsparkco
IIRC malnutrition was definitely a factor but McCandless had also poisoned himself with what he thought were wild potatoes that were alkaline? The River was an issue but in the end he was too weak to walk anyway.
Pretty sure it was closer than that, like a mile or less.Quote:
Originally Posted by hikesalot
Yeah, the crossing was built for the trail, it just had to be down (or up) river a bit due to the topography.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
I'm gonna go with food poisoning
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
I'm going with love triangle gone bad (don't they all?)
Lovers camp out instead of hitting a no-tell motel, jilted partner tracks them down and shoots them, then pulls the plug not far away.
My first thought was they od'd on something laced with fentanyl but maybe a bad dose of shrooms.
I'm not saying it was aliens...
I’m going with aliens, it’s close enough to the San Luis Valley
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Malnutrition…. I wonder if they were a group of 4 at one point….
Yeah I was promised my immune system would shut down 3 months after vaccination - but I was hoping to also get that 5G service at the same time. Is Bill Gates finally turning it on here?Quote:
Originally Posted by supermodel159
but I didn't even eat the Mousse.Quote:
Originally Posted by summit
I use to work at Barr Camp on Pike's Peak back in the 90''s right when Into the Wild came out. The amount of people that wandered up above tree line during lightning storms, wanted to ski Bottomless Pit after a big snowfall, or just wanted to walked barefoot to the summit was an every day occurrence.
+50 points for the Python reference.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mofro261
Monty Python. Love it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mofro261
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I feel your pain. I was promised the vax would stop transmission!Quote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
It did for me. I haven't been able to receive a 5g signal ever since my booster.Quote:
Originally Posted by supermodel159
Well playedQuote:
Originally Posted by Mofro261
I’ve had 4 shots and haven’t had covid. How am I supposed to transmit it if I can’t even seem to get it? An asymptomatic case isn’t gonna have me sniffling and coughing out virus for others to get. I feel shortchanged.Quote:
Originally Posted by supermodel159
And my immune system is still working 2 years later. When does the gene therapy I was promised start?
These three campers got it. When do the rest of us get that sweet 5G nano chip activation? I’ve got shows to stream!
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Originally Posted by Mofro261
How much snow did that area get this last winter?
this is a perfect way to sum all this shit up thanksQuote:
Originally Posted by mud
and yeah everyone should go read (or reread) into the wild and the stranger in the woods
alot like almost everyone doesn't have what it takes to surivive once fear kicks in once shit goes sideways your way of thinking goes just as quickly