Posted on 11/23/2015 3:05:45 PM PST by BenLurkin
Michael Meyers was found dead shortly before 1:30 p.m. Saturday, about 11,000 feet up in the mountains in an area of the John Muir Wilderness, according to Deputy Coroner Investigator Jeff Mullenhour.
Meyers, an experienced hiker and climber, was hiking the area by himself. He was due back in Los Angeles on Nov. 11, according to his family.
The UCLA physics student was driving a Dodge SUV, which was discovered Thursday at the Mount Whitney trailhead.
Items belonging to Meyers were found Friday in a recent avalanche debris field near Mount Irvine, the Los Angeles Police Department stated in a brief update to the initial request for help finding the young man. Mount Irvine, at 13,770 feet, is about 2 miles southeast of 14,505-foot Mount Whitney.
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No one is stopping you, Chuck.
I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do leaveth my rifle to the next thing who finds it, Lord hope he be a white man. It is a good rifle, and kilt the bear that kilt me. Anyway, I am dead. Sincerely, Hatchet Jack.
If you hike alone, you die alone.
I love comments like yours, instead of trying to counter my point, you start insults.
I spent 25 years as an infantry officer, including in combat as a long range reconnaissance platoon leader where a safe room was quite distant and useless in any case. I have spent many hours above the tree line checking instrumentation stations on glaciers and on tundra wind swept vista long before cell phones and GPS. I have crawled through muddy trench lines in the Balkans a few meters away from away from some really mean guy who was trying to kill me. I could go on, but you need to tend to your garden. Some of my warped vision of the world around me was formed when artillery rounds began to explode around me. Truly scaring, but clearly not what you have faced.
Wine and brie during your quiet evening of insomnia is not a world that I understand.
Been there and done it already.And I did like thw wilderness better than my times in NYC.
You insulted me, and now you come back to defend yourself by claiming to be a hero?
Excuse me if I don’t respect that.
This time of year is especially dangerous for avalanches, as depth hoar slides are common with variable temperatures.
There should always be two people at minimum, they should always cross slide paths one at a time so the other can start the search and call for help if a slide occurs and buries the other person.
It is not unheard of to survive even a serious slide if you can be found quickly.
I’d rather be in the wilderness than in NYC too.
Agreed. If someone chooses to take their life in their hands by going out into a wilderness area alone, that is their right, but their chance of survival is better if they have a companion.
Why that is a problem for some, I don’t know.
I don’t disagree with you, going alone into the wilderness is a bad idea, especially for the recreational wanderer. I just get annoyed by those living in the their fantasy world.
There are so many people there in the summer that a solo hike is not that risky.
“No one should ever hike in a wilderness area alone.”
John Muir who the wilderness is named after wouldn’t have done that./ The only person he risks by going alone is himself. A second person is mostly going to be a second victim, or a witness to the heart attack, death fall, deadly avalanche, etc.
A second person might help locate a body sooner. But the second person degrades the precise reason some people want to be there alone in the first place. Our pussified society recoils in fear at someone who wants to hike alone, but its a classic human activity.
“If you hike alone, you die alone.”
If you think about it, everyone dies alone.
I back-backed solo for two weeks west of the Grand Tetons - two months before turning 16. And 1200 miles from home. I’m not sure who was more nuts - me or my parents for letting me!
In college I was always backbacking or hunting by myself - winter too.
At 19 I spent three weeks solo in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Those were the days! It was when I was with buddies when things got dangerous. “Hey, hold muh beer....”
Yes and no.
It is possible to be around loved ones, however.
“and call for help if a slide occurs and buries the other person.”
Large parts of the West have no cell. None.
True.
Everyone dies with God, but... yes... good point.
Hatchet Jack was, after all, married to a mountain lion and lived with her in a cave up on the Musselshell.
I’m guessing she wasn’t present at his demise.
Perhaps, perhaps not. Impossible to know, I would think.
Go for it. I’m not stopping you.
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