Posted on 04/07/2022 10:09:42 PM PDT by zeestephen
The discovery came a week after the doctor, a 26-year-old cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin, set off alone on a hike through the area, which features trails and a towering waterfall, surrounded by steep clay banks.
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Alone and veering off. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Never, but happens more than you think - just last week in my area: Marohn, an English teacher at Shaker High School in North Colonie, likes to hike, and solo hiking trips like the one she was apparently on are not uncommon, police said. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/capital-region/news/2022/04/01/lee-missing-person-search-nys#:~:text=Marohn%2C%20an%20English%20teacher%20at,evidence%20a%20crime%20took%20place.
” The girl shoulda stayed on the trail. Mother Nature can be a beotch.”
I believe it was Louis L’Amour in a more biographical book, wrote that when traveling cross country, stay on the trails. There were usually started as game trails, perhaps used by people who went that way before, and were the best way to get to where you are going w/out trouble. He mentioned traveling a trail in the mountains, and thought he saw a shorter way to get to his destination across a grassy meadow. To his surprise, and rather suddenly, it brought him to the edge of a canyon, with no way to go but back.
Stay on the trails.
MI6 doesn't have any interest in a waterfall in Wisconsin.
Going off the official trails is not a smart idea either.
Bears, hell racoons. I had them getting into my garage thru my cat door to get to the cat food. Took the food out and put a couple live traps in their with a small plastic cup filled with cat food. Came out the next morning and had trapped a couple of them and they were pissed. They had shredded the plastic cups and pissed and defecated everywhere. Took them to the edge of my ditch and shot them with a .22. Trapped a bunch more over the next couple nights. I remember telling the story to a lady I worked with and she wanted me to release them. Told her to give me her address and I’d bring them over.
The raccoons used to get half my sweet corn. My dogs were scared of them. I used to trap them for selling the fur. My father-in-law fed birds and the squirrels would throw the millet seed out on the ground to get the sunflower seeds. So he quit putting out feed. The squirrels then tore his lawn furniture cushions all to pieces. Nature can be a beotch in a lot of ways.
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