10ofRods
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I believe the parking lot is the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area. If you look it up on Google, and look at the photos around there, or just zoom in,you'll see images of the square parking lot (sorry my tech skills are not good enough to post the photos I found, maybe someone else can). Now, where would you need to be, to get a photo that would have that parking lot in it? Not sure. Might validate the theory that the 360 degree photo was taken earlier in the day from another location? Could they have gotten high enough, in a 1 mile walk, to view that side of the mountain from where RT says they were parked? And if a car was parked at that parking lot, how long would it take to get from there to where the RV was? If the photo you are refering to was taken from near where the RV was parked, as it is linked there, maybe it would be possible to see...
So, if you think they were actually some 20 miles east of where RT said they were, that's interesting. Sure, then the parking lot would be visible.
That means RT almost certainly took an unimproved road to where he parked the RV and called the police. There would have been a good sized dust plume as he drove along the route - so people at Providence that day may have seen it. No difficult climbs to make, just a gentle walk up to the top of a hill (which sounds about right for the geriatric set).
It would be very interesting if LE took dogs and cadaver dogs out to that area. Or interested volunteers.
I figure it would take 50 minutes to an hour to get to where the RV was parked, given the washboard nature of the roads.
Surely LE can tell the difference between a pic of that parking lot and the parking lot closer to where the RV was parked. This makes me hopeful that something may happen in this case. Unfortunately, so far, the info we have is that RT was able to provide evidence that Barbara was alive at the Hidden Hills/Kelbaker location (near the Granite Hills). OTOH, if he used an earlier-taken picture to divert police...I hope the police catch that detail.
The Providence area is much more visited, so the chances of someone coming across a body are higher, IMO. But it is a big deviation from where RT said he was, and so if the picture with the cars turns out to be over there, LE needs to search over there.