So when did Robinson die and make you the determinate of who's opinion is valued on this site. Perhaps you should have me censored along with the poster right above yours who is saying the exact same thing.
Your nitpicking the "dispatcher" serves no purpose. My apologies if you have been in that area before, where did you go?
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Bray,
Mine point (re: nitpicking) about the dispatcher is that you read something - make a rash assessment and then deliver your response without thinking and realizing what you are saying.
There is a big difference between a 911 operation (who sits in a nice warm control center) and someone who is responsible for coordinating SAR efforts on the ground - she was actually on Bear Camp Rd was told about very strong evidence that tire tracks went up the road toward Black Bar Lodge and that IT DEFINITELY needed to be checked out.
She either dismissed the account, ignored, or forgot the information and then told the searchers that the area had already been cleared and didn't need to be searched!!! That happened on Friday. Since the searchers thought the area had been cleared they didn't search that area - it wasn't until late Saturday when a volunteer from Edge wireless found the ping to their cellphones from the previous week and their efforts then moved back into that area on Sunday.
To me that is a major, inexcusable mistake for a paid professional to make.
I have been on 23 (not in the winter) but not on Bear Camp Rd. I have hiked and camped in the Cascades (WA state) including the winter.
Suggestion...if you want to put your own two cents in...read the other 98 cents and give people the respect they deserve for putting so much time and effort into this.
Some of us have been posting since the very beginning of this and as always on FR...things get figured out - good or bad - and they need to be reviewed and corrected so the sames mistakes are not made again.
That is the beauty of FR that pieces of puzzle get assembled from all kinds of people and things actually get solved and improvements can happen because of that.