Found Deceased ME - Gerry Largay, 66, Appalachian Trail, 21 July 2013

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Topcat said:
What hotel room are you referring to?

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On the 'North Woods Law' episode entitled 'Lost and Found' S2 E9, referred to above, a warden accompanies Gerry's husband back to his hotel room and they go through Gerry's stuff. Her husband would meet her and exchange bags or she would give him gear she no longer needed and grab new stuff to pack, at prearranged locations. They didn't go into details but her husband said she had a 'Spot' GPS signal thingy with her and while they were going through her things, they found it (it showed the officer finding it). It was then that they both realized it was not in her personal possession.
It looked like the one in this link (it was bright orange): http://www.findmespot.com/en/?cid=102
 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3353120/
[video=youtube;KPHBcRBSGTI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPHBcRBSGTI[/video]
They may charge for the episode at these links but you may be able to find them elsewhere free. I'm not really computer savvy. These list S2 E209 and S3 E9 respectively. But at least the title is the same: North Woods Law Lost and Found.
 
Ray_of_hope said:
On the 'North Woods Law' episode entitled 'Lost and Found' S2 E9, referred to above, a warden accompanies Gerry's husband back to his hotel room and they go through Gerry's stuff. Her husband would meet her and exchange bags or she would give him gear she no longer needed and grab new stuff to pack, at prearranged locations. They didn't go into details but her husband said she had a 'Spot' GPS signal thingy with her and while they were going through her things, they found it (it showed the officer finding it). It was then that they both realized it was not in her personal possession.
It looked like the one in this link (it was bright orange): http://www.findmespot.com/en/?cid=102
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Thanks

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Ray_of_hope said:
On the 'North Woods Law' episode entitled 'Lost and Found' S2 E9, referred to above, a warden accompanies Gerry's husband back to his hotel room and they go through Gerry's stuff. Her husband would meet her and exchange bags or she would give him gear she no longer needed and grab new stuff to pack, at prearranged locations. They didn't go into details but her husband said she had a 'Spot' GPS signal thingy with her and while they were going through her things, they found it (it showed the officer finding it). It was then that they both realized it was not in her personal possession.
It looked like the one in this link (it was bright orange): http://www.findmespot.com/en/?cid=102
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That dear, brave woman, I am so in awe of her, adventuring on the Appalachian Trail and all alone.

I do wonder why she didn't have her Spot GPS with her, maybe she just forgot it? And she was right by a creek, didn't she have a filter, etc.? But she had no food? :cry:

I guess some things aren't meant to be understood. :cry:
 
neesaki said:
That dear, brave woman, I am so in awe of her, adventuring on the Appalachian Trail and all alone.

I do wonder why she didn't have her Spot GPS with her, maybe she just forgot it? And she was right by a creek, didn't she have a filter, etc.? But she had no food? :cry:

I guess some things aren't meant to be understood. :cry:
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Actually she had a partner for the first 3/4 of the trail but because of a family emergency had to leave.

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Hiker who died after disappearing from trail survived for weeks
In the file, which totals 1,579 pages, wardens said they believed that Largay went off the trail to use the bathroom and couldn’t find her way back.

She set up her tent and made use of both her rain gear and an emergency mylar blanket. She also kept a journal.

The last entry is dated Aug. 18, meaning she apparently survived at least 26 days after she disappeared.
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http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...d-for-weeks/KAcHuKSdYVHNTNu0qQobvK/story.html
 
Max17 said:
Hiker who died after disappearing from trail survived for weeks

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...d-for-weeks/KAcHuKSdYVHNTNu0qQobvK/story.html
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How horrible. This thread actually starts weeks before she died. They could have found her in time. They must have been so close:/

ETA: I sort of wish her family never found this out. Not only were the searches scaled back weeks before she died, her family actually left the area while we now know she was still alive.
 
SeaEclipse said:
How horrible. This thread actually starts weeks before she died. They could have found her in time. They must have been so close:/

ETA: I sort of wish her family never found this out. Not only were the searches scaled back weeks before she died, her family actually left the area while we now know she was still alive.
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I can't agree more - how horrible to have lost your loved one this way. To have endured the agony of not knowing for so many long years, and then to know these details that she lived so long, and had to believe that each day she would be found, as she grew weaker and weaker. I wondered how they knew she died of exposure when it was only skeletal remains that they found, I suppose the journal is the answer to that.
 
oh my, how awful... to think of what she was going through then, so sad... but that journal is priceless to those who loved her (ugh, priceless is not the right word but for lack of a better one)...
 
Oh no, this is awful. Poor Gerry, how dreadful to die that way. And her poor family. Heartbreaking for them.
 
How incredibly sad. Yet, she was thinking of her family right til the end ❤️
 
Family of lost hiker won't second-guess Maine over search

http://www.thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article80520977.html

The family of a hiker who died after getting lost on the Appalachian Trail in Maine isn't going to criticize searchers even though they abandoned their full-scale effort while she was still alive.

Geraldine Largay's family members saw searchers' efforts and know from visiting the location of her death how difficult it would've been to find her, the family said in a statement released Friday evening.

"While we grieve for Gerry, we do not second-guess any of the efforts to find her when she went missing. We witnessed firsthand the passion and commitment of the hundreds of game wardens and volunteers who searched for her," the statement said.

"Gerry was doing exactly what she wanted to do. She'd hiked a thousand miles — after 200 miles of training hikes the year prior — and as the warden's report indicates, she was lucid and thinking of others, as always, until the end," the statement said.
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JusticeWillBeServed said:
Family of lost hiker won't second-guess Maine over search

http://www.thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article80520977.html
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I'm glad to see that, otherwise there's a lot of blame directed at the searchers which I think is unfair. One oddity of this case is that she was found in a restricted area - which was searched with official Navy permission - but was therefore out of bounds to unofficial volunteer searchers and other hikers or recreational users. It was just bad luck she stumbled into this area, imo.
 
I found a very interesting article about the psychology of being lost in the woods. It gives some insight on why Gerry behaved as she did.

"Scientists have not yet agreed on a uniformly accepted model for the stages that people go through when they're lost--it's a fairly immature discipline, and there is a lot of individual variation. Some skip or repeat certain steps or reorder them. But most cases will reflect a general pattern something like this: In Stage One you deny that you're disoriented; in Stage Two you panic when you admit that you're lost; in Stage Three you calm down and form a strategy; in Stage Four you deteriorate both mentally and physically, as your strategy fails to get you out; and in Stage Five you become resigned to your plight as you run out of options. It is perhaps no surprise that the pattern closely resembles Elizabeth Kübler-Ross's stages of dying: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance."

http://www.smcmsar.org/downloads/Lost Person Behavior.pdf
 
This has to be one of the saddest stories... poor Gerry, so bloody close. Her poor family, and those that searched for her, I know I would spend the rest of my life thinking of that
 
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