Well it’s just a rough estimate to right across the Rio Grande, so who knows? But even so, 33 miles is a LONG way to hike in the mountains in the winter. That would take forever! I don’t know, but it seems unlikely they got lost and just walked all that way? That’s nuts IMO.
It happens out here all the time. My family and I got turned around once on a hike.
Oh I’ve done it too in mountains/desert in New Mexico. It’s so scary! If that happened to them they are very lucky to have made it to civilization. I wonder why they didn’t call any family once there? I mean we don’t know how long they had been there, but surely they’d know people were looking for them.
It is wide, but there are places where it's shallow enough to wade across.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it is. There’s not a lot for miles on either side so it seems like a lot of difficult hiking, but I’m sure it can be done. If they got lost from where their truck was left, and ended up across the river in Mexico, they were probably out there in bad conditions for a long time. How did they eat? It must have been horrible!
I am just a little curious about somethings though. What made them cross the river? Did they not know which river it was or was the terrain so bad they knew they would never make it back the way they came? They were asking for food? not help? Hopefully we'll get more information.
There is only one river. Sure it's possible to wade in the river and not realize which side you're on, (it has lots of twists and turns in that area) but it's January..plus they would know where they were as soon as they got into Mexico and saw the first stop sign or store or whatever....
Agreed. Makes it more curious. Well, I guess we may never know.
Very true. Not a lot of happy endings on here, sometimes.
Alive and well!
