Very tragic, we used to get a lot of people from back east that would go hunting in the mountains and die. Seems she had no ability to even make a fire for signal? you need to have some basic preparations to be able to survive and be found... very sad.
Get ready for Geraldine's law requiring gender-neutral rest rooms in the woods.
“Appalachian Trail hiker “
I think most of that trail is unmarked. Not something to attempt if you can’t camp.
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I’ve spent a lot of time in New England forests. I can never understand how people get “lost” for more than a day or so. If you walk in a straight line you are going to go more than 20 miles without cross a pretty significant road.
I guess it means you need a map of where you are, and a compass.
Yes, I'm sure she thought as she was dying "This is really great! I'm dying in the woods. I love dying in the woods. This is SOOO much better than being at home alive."
Beats being intubated, IV’d and cathetered in an ICU.
This article is old information. I have not read it, but the info gleaned from promo on the article has been public knowledge since they found her body a couple of months ago. A Portland Maine online publication, TheBollard.Com has extensive coverage of the case including the details that she was on or near a US Navy survival training camp where soldiers are put through psyops seniarios. There are questions as to why the Navy was not enlisted to help with the search.
From what I have read, this woman should not have been left alone to navigate outside her own neighborhood.
Ayah, a city girl , from away.
26 days? Know where you are and where a town is (General direction.) Find a stream, and go down-stream. It will probably get to a bigger stream. Go down stream. You will find civilization.
Maine is an easy place to get lost, even on the AT. A friend of mine and myself found ourselves lost in Baxter State Park in the 80s while on the final leg of the trail. We took a side trail that whittled itself down to a moose path before we realized what had happened. We were out there for four days before we navigated ourselves back to a road using compass and visual guides.
One night, we had a moose stick his head in our tent around 3:00 am. Trust me, animals look a lot bigger and meaner when you’re lost than when you’re not!
Time and time again here on the Olympic mountain trails Eastsiders (those that live on the Seattle side) are constantly getting lost and we have to go find them. They thought it a day hike out in nature.
Some good maps and map reading skills might have prevented that. Something I learned in Scouts. And that I taught Mrs. Fella and that she taught our kids and they are teaching their kids.
some more info in this article which was published just after her remains were discovered:
Well yeah. If she loved starvation and hypothermia.
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In cases like this, I want to know if their remains are found together with paper maps and compass, or not?
You should always know where you are, and the way out to help/safety.
it's called water... find running water and follow it down stream, works every time