MsBetsy
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Thanks! I guess by close I mean walking distance or within a mile or less.Depends on what you mean by "close." Not within 2 miles, I'd say (although they find obscure mines every once in a while). 5 miles, maybe. Again, though, presumably LE has timestamped pictures of Barbara's whereabouts and information from RT's phone (VI says LE took RT's phone). So if she "wandered off" someplace else, LE would at least check out other areas (if they chose to disregard RT's account of things).
It's granite bedrock in the area where they were hiking, so no mines right there and the soil is pretty shallow on top of that (so would be hard to dig IMO). Haven't had time to go out there since Barbara disappeared, but when we do go again this winter, we'll take a shovel and a topo map and see what it's like. I know that the eastern side of Kelbaker is more sandy/looser dirt. I love geology and rock collecting myself, which is our main reason for stopping there (we haven't stopped for a while, I know I've mentioned that we don't think it feels particularly safe out there).
But 2 or 3 miles is not that far if someone got lost or actually walked in that direction instead of walking to the rock formations. If it's 5 miles I would think it would be too far.
It would be much easier looking at a map, the one I saw showed where all the mines were but I don't know the location of the rock formations or where the RV was parked because I don't know the area.
All the mines are named, so if we knew which ones were closest it might be easier to tell. Imo