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Having spent several years living and hiking in Alaska, (the Pyrenees now), I’ve run into my share of bears and learned quite a bit about bear behavior along the way. While they don’t typically hang out above the tree line, I have on occasion seen bears up high – luckily at some distance. Never...

As an EU citizen ED would be entitled to reside in France. DC would have residency by way of marriage, or a PACS (civil union) agreement.

An interesting and insightful read. "Vanlife" - it’s big business and very competitive. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/vanlife-the-bohemian-social-media-movement?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker

Just would like to point out that eyewitness testimony has been proven to be unreliable-- it deteriorates rapidly with time (significant fading within 20 minutes), and is easily overridden by circumstances. Although witnesses are often very confident that their memory is accurate, the...

Just to be clear, a sniffer dog is a dog that’s been trained to detect or sniff out a certain substance, like for example drugs, explosives, blood and all kinds of contraband, even certain diseases. They recognize if that scent is present. The dogs you see at airports are sniffer dogs. Not to...

I’d be curious as to how many video surveillance cams there are in Benasque. I realise they’re not as ubiquitous as in the UK, but still. We already know there’s one in the Eroski supermarket, and then there are two gas stations, three banks, at least four hotels......So I have to wonder if...

Unless they were already in the area, and the opportunity presented itself.

I think we’ve only been presented with excerpts extracted from longer conversations/interactions ED has had with some of the countless fellow hikers she’s come across on the trail. Heard in context these requests for food might not seem all that out of place or inappropriate. For example, her...

You know, it depends on the individual dog, and how it’s been trained, so it varies. For some dogs maybe 4 or 5 days is the limit, others can still track a scent for weeks. It also depends on the level of contamination with other scents. Weather is also a factor; rain doesn’t matter, scent...

There are two main types of SAR dogs. Tracking dogs will follow a trail and pick up the scent of skin cells dropped along the way by a hiker, but there has to be a trail - they need a starting point. Air scent dogs are used when there isn’t an obvious trail to follow; they pick up the scent of...

Yes, her husband's name is Hugues Legendre.

You’re right ZaZara, she was mentioned a few threads back in the context of other missing hikers. I must have come across her case on a different missing persons forum some years ago. I do remember reading about her in the papers at the time. I’d be interested in reading the book you mentioned...

Sorry but I don’t find the “chia seeds episode” strange at all. It’s happened to me a number of times, especially when travelling, having to ask the cashier about a discrepancy in pricing only to be told that you have to have a loyalty card in order to get the discount. It’s not always obvious.

Couldn’t have said it better.

It's been a while since I last saw it, it might no longer be available. Francoise was Belgian, on holiday in Spain, so if you Google her, most of the info will be in French. It's been 11 years since she went missing, she has recently been in the news again because they just now officially...