Posted on 04/23/2019 3:02:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Around noon on Sunday, March 31, Alicia Judy, 40, left her home in Scottsdale to run 16 to 18 miles on the Spur Cross Trail, which would lead her to Skull Mesa, a breathtaking summit surrounded by towering cactus trees.
The path was very familiar to Judy, an experienced trail runner and nurse who has been running through the parks in her area regularly since moving to Arizona five years ago. Still, she studied the map before she left, double-checked her route with a fellow hiker on the trailhead, and made sure to pack her phone, compass, water, and maps with her.
She reached Skull Mesa about 9 to 10 miles into her run, and snapped a photo of the top to send to her dad, Leonard Judy, to let him know she made it.
On the return trip, however, things turned south.
“It was like a jungle, and I just lost the trail. It wasn’t marked,” Judy told Runner’s World. “Then I started doing all of the things I know to do to try and find a trail.”
After hours of searching her surroundings and communicating back-and-forth by phone with her dad, she finally made her way out of cell reception, and became unreachable. He called the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, who sent a rescue team to contact her and track her location. They arrived at around 9 p.m.
It seemed like Judy was saved. But just as she was waving her hands to get their attention, she stepped on some brush—and fell 30 feet below into an abandoned mine shaft.
“They were screaming ‘We’re here! We can't see you! We can't see you!’ And I'm screaming in the hole, ‘I'm in here! I'm in here!’” Judy told Runner’s World. “But they couldn't hear me.”
(Excerpt) Read more at runnersworld.com ...
She didn’t do anything to get out. She was rescued by others.
And, at 9pm how do you know there is a rattlesnake at the top of a 30 foot deep mine shaft? Glow in the dark?
Attention seeker.
GPS should have helped her based on her alleged experience.
15 mi. of trail is a long way to run though.
LOL!
“He said GPS really, realllllly brought the idiots out of the woodwork.”
Same with driving. If you can’t navigate with a map, you probably shouldn’t be operating a 2-3 ton vehicle
Or Joshua Trees. But since I’m not sure, maybe either one. Where’s MarkTwain?
I thought that she might have done like John Rambo.
I hope she replaced the brush after she messed it up.
Perhaps they have heard of satellite phones.
It was a click bait article without all of the click bait. Probably paid for by The National Organization of Trump and Mining Haters.
Blow the whistle baby.
“Has more to do with Freedom and your right to challenge Darwin.”
Thank you. And living your passion as in post 20. A lot of other people under 40 probably don’t understand.
Then — No helmet or pads, no cell phone, no ground rubber under swings, no kiddie barriers everywhere, open 120v sockets.
Darn birds and lizards ate up all the granola crumbs she left to mark the trail. That said, I can see it'd be easy to lose a trail- trails seldom look familiar on the way back unless you are very attentive in noting unusual natural features, creating unusual features with stacked rocks, or in leaving broken branches. You may see side rails from one direction you did not notice going the other direction, or the trail may not even be visible on open dry ground, and the light is different and deceiving.
Geez, I’ve spent hundreds of hours alone in the wilderness all over the west. Lots of it with no trails at all. All of it with no cell phones or GPS. It didn’t exist, at least not for consumers.
One does need to be careful in the tropical rain forest around Phoenix. She's lucky that an Anaconda didn't get her and that she didn't fall in one of the many rivers and get eaten by piranhas
I live and work in a part of New Mexico that has been mined since the 1600’s. You learn what to look out for, and to be careful.
There’s no water, so why would developers give a damn?
Or Joshua trees.
Looking at the picture of her hands and legs in the article, all I could think was...Nice nails!!
He, she, or “it”?
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