I was wondering at one point if he was perhaps developing a new hiking app for Snap. He had quit using AllTrails a few months earlier but was, according to family friends, still hiking on weekends. So maybe this was a beta test hike.
Good thought. Based on our confusion here it appears a good app would be welcomed by the hiking community
I don't think it's odd at all. 1. All of them were simultaneously exposed to extreme heat (103-109F, according to the sheriff) and sun, and except for the baby they had all just hiked 1.5 miles up a steep trail with about 1000' of elevation gain. 2. No one else was there to be similarly affected, because it's not a good idea, to put it mildly. MOO.
Well, the “S”, not the “M”, per Briese. Linked previously, as you probably know. Everything else remains possible, if not on the list.
Bumping 9/30 press release direct from Sheriff's office in case anybody missed words direct from his office.
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I agree a good app would be nice, but, pro tip: nothing substitutes for a paper/Tyvek topo map and compass. They're both in the "10 essentials", and are carried in addition to GPS facilitated devices ('cos as you can see in this case, there are no satellites in the line of sight). Maps on a phone are too small to appreciate hazards. For instance, a map for the Hites Cove area might be too small to provide enough detail (like exactly how many contours are involved) to get a real assessment of that canyon.
Finding bodily fluids would be normal after death and in the heat likely dried. Moo
There is a simple explanation that makes perfect sense to me, being someone who hiked and backpacked with his wife, baby, and dog. Love, and an impossible situation. Once they were half way up that hellish climb they had no way out. They were physically unable to continue up or retreat down to the safety of the river, and they couldn't survive there in that heat with the sun frying them. Abandon your dog, spouse, and baby? Or frantically tend to them, until you too are overcome by the heat? That's the way I read that scene. The real question is what drove them up that climb in that heat? Again, simple answers. They were running out of water and their baby was suffering in the heat. They were trying to get to the safety of their truck, only 3 miles away. But the steep climb, lack of shade, and extreme temperature doomed them. My opinion.Well, it seems odd (or initially seemed that way) to me that whatever happened killed all four together. However, when I took a step back (after reading posts by others) and realized the dog and baby were dependent upon J and E... particularly after the info that Oski was still attached (via lead) to Jon (and unable to move away) was released... it didn't seem so odd.
And, in a separate thought... I must admit, I've seen too many movies (i.e. Dark Waters) BUT even if toxins in public waterways could be fatal to some humans... I don't know that any deaths would be "easily" attributed to such toxins (even after some testing). I'm not a conspiracy-theorist, truely! But, I expect tomatoes to be thrown my way for this opinion but that's what I think (atm, anyway!). To each his/her own thoughts !
I agree. It seems reasonable to believe they had reached the point where found before it was intensely hot.
Thank you. The abstract is a short paragraph, and see pages 6, 8 for the conclusion.
