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Good ideas but anytime someone chooses a route that is not an established, mapped trail, there is danger. I am not victim blaming. I am just pointing out that the way he chose to access the PR trails (if what we know of his planned route is accurate) was not the safest or best access. If he completed his route and was on his way back to his car, he may have been in distress from the heat or a medical problem, causing him to unwittingly go off trail. No matter how many signs and phones there are, this kind of event could still happen on the perimeter of any well-marked open space. This can serve as a lesson to all trail users everywhere. When you are off an established trail, risk increases greatly. It always has and it always will. Let's work hard on all fronts (signage, education, etc.) to protect ourselves and others while experiencing the unlimited joys of being out there. This devastating loss is fresh. I hope PK was not a crime victim.One of the videos Body found near East Bay trail believed to be of missing runner Philip Kreycik shows some helicopter footage or airplane footage of the area he was found. It looks like there were perhaps a pair of deep tire tracks or a pair of some sort of sunken trails side by side near the tree line. I am having difficulty figuring out what they might be.
I am not sure if these are the same as this from the aerial view of Google maps Google Maps
Also, at 1:25 you can see how close he was to the nearby Pleasanton houses from the aerial shot in the news. That looks to be the Preserve which has its staging area called Laurel Creek staging area, and is not the Moller Ranch subdivision. Body of missing runner found in Pleasanton According to the newscast, he was found in EBRPD property 'not open for recreation' which sounds to me like landbank property that they purchased but have never opened to the public. If I am looking at the map correctly, I think EBRPD purchased it a very long time ago in 1991. That is irritating in itself. They have had 30 years to make this parcel safe, put up directional signs on the trails, yet it looks as though they have made no steps to make it safe or put up trail signs.
I hope they are able to figure out exactly how he got there, including an explanation of why he was not spotted on video in the Moller Ranch neighborhood. I hope they can figure out how he ended up next to The Preserve neighborhood perhaps by obtaining the watch and attempting to figure out whether he took the route he intended to, took a different route completely, made it around the loop and took a wrong turn, or perhaps he never made it to the loop area at all.
Also if they use the watch data hopefully it will explain why the dog scent ended or whether the dog actually accurately traced Philip's path in the first place and also will settle once and for all if those are his shoe prints on the Mariposa trail.
Also a lot of maps and text the EBRPD seems to be very confusing so even with one of these maps accompanied by text, anyone can get lost. In some of the documents they refer to Devany Canyon Rd. Devany Canyon Rd as far as I can tell does not exit. Maybe they mean Dublin Canyon Rd. I have no idea. But if I live here locally and see a lot errors in their documents that don't make any sense, it is no surprise people can get lost up there.
Once they figure out what happened, I hope the city and park district put up directional signs so that a tragedy like this will not ever happen again. Also if they put up some sort of emergency phone system at staging areas and several up there in the park like there are emergency phones with embedded security cameras on college campuses, hopefully future tragedies like this can be prevented. That way, someone who needs help can summon emergency personnel immediately.