Posted on 04/17/2019 8:47:49 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Utah...Woman alone on a trail...Cougar would my guess.
Yeah she is with God. Go be with God.
She was a cougar?
Maybe she lost a territorial dispute?
Utah claims runners, bikers, hikers, climbers on a regular basis. Animal attacks are rare; it’s usually just folks out in the pretty rocks picking a fight with Isaac Newton.
No, she was the victim of a cougar/mountain lion.
Wonder if she was armed. I don’t understand anyone who goes running alone in isolated areas. Never mind the possibility of heart attack or other issues - how about a fall? And in really isolated areas, there are large predators like mountain lions, wolves and bears, to say nothing of pesky critters like rattlesnakes, scorpions or even swarms of bees.
https://fox13now.com/2019/04/17/body-found-in-american-fork-canyon-confirmed-as-jerika-binks/
She had a broken leg. No foul play suspected.
Oh. You mean they had a grave run-in with The Law and didnt understand the Gravity of the situation?
You have probably 200 people a year who disappear off state and national forests/park land. No one collects a complete database, but you hear the stories and piece together the location and general circumstance. One might guess that the vast majority (probably over 90-percent) are related to cougars/mountain lions.
David Paulides of Missing 411 is collecting and investigating these types of reports...
http://www.canammissing.com/missing_411.html
One report said her remains were found in the ravine 800’ above the valley floor. That’s a pretty strenuous climb even for a fit person especially if they had already been running for a while.
And how many feet below the path she was running on.......
Looking at the photo of where her body was found, it’s easy to believe that if she was running or trotting, she could have slipped on those rocks and broke her leg with no way to get out and eventually died.
Good question. For some reason i assumed she was found ABOVE the trail. Below the trail probably makes more sense but i’m not familiar with the area.
Laying there can’t move with a broken leg then a blizzard moves in.
doesn’t sound like a great way to die.
RIP
It can use something as simple as a sprained ankle to take your life.
Never assume everything will work out OK.
Liberals have let animal-rights nutballs take over the state wildlife agencies, and they downplay the danger of cougars, wolves, and bears.
“...prompting an employee at the sober living facility where she lived ...”
“Sober living facility?” Sounds like a fun place to spend your final days. Maybe if she’d stayed drunk she would still be alive.
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