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According to Google Maps, it's only a 6-mile walk from where he was last seen to the Trout Lake area. I noticed that he was last seen in Boone just before the VA State Police announcement of finding a body (Nicole Mittendorf) in Shenandoah NP about 2:00 PM the same day. Probably coincidental.

Yes, special teams rappelling down into the canyon, it's rough out there, not like Central Park.

Anyone who needs to catch up, that's a good little article.

I've been wondering if she's a backpacker. If she knew what she was doing she could easily, totally, disappear for a week. There's plenty of water, and a week's worth of dehydrated food for her would weigh a few pounds at most. She would have to be pretty p/o'd to do that, and if she knew what...

You have misinterpreted, Upper Hawksbill is on Skyline, it's the triangle to the left below Big Run Overlook. Your map (big dot) does confirm the location of the lower parking area for Old Rag/White Oak Canyon.

It is long drive, but she may have started at that place before the other 2 were open, and/or she has a bond with people where she is now. Of course people have had issues at one box (crossfit gym, they are usually started up in a warehouse/industrial building) and moved to another.

Yes, that is one of the reasons that I doubted abduction and assault, she wouldn't be easy to grab and control by a man, as long as she wasn't totally gassed from running or injured. She would likely have a game plan and even if she were overcome her attacker would probably have a mark or 3...

It is a possibility, but it's often overstated as a likelihood. Wikipedia has a page that lists fatal bear attacks in the US, broken down by black bear, grizzly, etc. Since 2000 there have been 4 fatal attacks in the east by wild bears (there was another by a captive bear that attacked it's...

GPS works with satellites. I have map apps (that I have yet to use) that claim to work without signal. The app provides map images (like Google does for ex.) and works with the GPS to show location on the map, direction, speed, etc. But she could have downloaded music. The are concrete posts at...

That would make the most sense to me.

Yes, or if she was just plain angry and needed an outlet.

It is perhaps the most popular area in the park. My own first backpacking experience took place there in 1978. If she hadn't been there she may have heard so much about it that she had to check it out for herself.

I was backcountry several miles away when I heard the sirens Saturday. It was a warm windy day and the dead leaves were dry. All of the parking areas at the trailheads were full -it was a fee free day- I had to park at an overlook across the drive. I would say it's not much of a coincidence...

In past years I have entered late in the day and the Waynesboro entrance would be unmanned, with a sign posted to pay on the way out. My assumption is the entrances are video surveilled but I don't know. Saturday, even though I had my season pass at the ready, I was waved through with a smile as...

If I make the assumption she is a dedicated crossfitter, she may or may not have had a routine that someone that is not a crossfitter would recognize. Crossfit means to encompass all sports and all functional movements and activities, with heavy emphasis on metabolic conditioning, olympic...

In terrain such as this it would be difficult, if not impossible to say every square yard has been covered with certainty. There's the factor that humans, even in large groups, are fallible especially in such stressful circumstances. Assuming the worst: A small body curled up in a fetal position...

Really, if you compare 1000 square miles of National Forest to 1 square mile of downtown-any-major-city I think you'll find them very safe in comparison. There was a little bit of Bermuda Triangle type sensationalism to that article.

I've spent what amounts to weeks of my life in the backcountry of SNP, alone, with dogs, with people, for as long as 6 consecutive days and nights (well there was an overnight campground stay and one night at the lodge that trip...). Anyway, while foul play is a possibility, it's such a rare...

Good and interesting point. It seems obvious she doesn't have any serious physical issues though, and as far as I know she was fully fit for firefighter duty with no restrictions, personally I'm not getting a feel for any mental or emotional problems but it's always a possibility that's being...

I did a little edit above regarding drive time, I guess while you were posting this. Yes the drive can be challenging too, especially coming home in the dark after a hard day hiking in the mountains.