WingsOverTX
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I think the hesitancy to answer your very good list of questions is because of Ron's death. As if blame would have to attach to him or Beverly if a complete & accurate accounting was made. These are intelligent people IMO but things went badly awry.Hopefully you know the RV was actually at 37.758920, -117.807700, and not at the coordinates Travis gave out. It was easy to figure out the locations of the RV and the Kia from Heavy D's recovery video. I verified both locations by driving to them on May 2. I'd love to know what information you wanted to pass to the family...
Nearly three months later, there are still many unanswered questions about this situation. Here are a few of them: List of questions
The family seems to have gone silent...a 180-degree turn from their endless Facebook posts during and immediately after the search and rescue/recovery. Not to mention their shrill (and as far as I can tell, baseless) accusations directed toward various Nevada officials.
For one thing, they've made inconsistent statements about when and where the missing persons report was filed. One of the relatives told me it was filed March 30, but did not say where it was filed. In the following article, Travis Peters states it was filed March 29 with the Oregon State Police. However, I've made a formal request and the OSP has no record of a missing persons report for the Barkers...
Article here
Or, perhaps I'm the only person still interested in this saga?
I still don't understand why BB continues to say that following a dirt road toward those mountains seemed fine and logical, especially due to the time of day getting later as they headed into wilderness. It was not logical & resulted in disaster, no matter how their spiritual beliefs helped them cope.
All I can think of is that RB was already medically compromised in some way at that point in their journey. Instead of stopping somewhere safe to spend the night as it got late when they were near Silver Peak - as would be expected - due to their age, physical condition, daylight waning - he drove on into the desert on a dirt road in an RV?
This kind of questioning is considered victim blaming by some so I will stop.
I think all reasonable questions, such as yours, deserve reasonable answers. But this forum is not designed to pursue those questions & answers, unfortunately.
If the state of Nevada chose to pursue getting these answers, there might be some clarification (I doubt the counties involved would expend those resources). Absent that, I think the narratives given are all we will ever have.
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The only thing I will add - on a personal note - is that being out West in the desert may have been a very foreign environment to them. In more environmentally hospitable places in the U.S., there is more margin for error. Many people move West thinking it will be like where they came from & it is a real challenge for them to live where deer eat your carefully cultivated roses that grew fine in Dallas, as one tiny example. When I left green East Texas for Colorado's Front Range, I had much to learn. Adapting was easy because I loved it out West though it was very unfamiliar to me. But I never tried to climb a 14er because that exceeded the skill set I had or was prepared to acquire. Nature is unforgiving in a place like rural Nevada. Fortunately, the price paid is not usually death.
JMHO
