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Off-Grid Living May Look Easy on Instagram But This Family’s Tragic Ending Tells a Different Story
Euronews ^ | 02/10/2023 | Ruth Wrigh

Posted on 10/03/2023 6:51:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway

It has been reported that the family had watched YouTube tutorials to prepare for living in the wildnerness.

Earlier this month, a solo hiker near the Gold Creek Campground made the grim discovery of the bodies of Rebecca Vance, 42; her 14-year-old son; and her sister, Christine Vance, 41, all residents of Colorado Springs.

The mummified remains of a family who attempted to live off-grid were discovered in July in Colorado's Gunnison National Forest. According to NBC News, the family reportedly relied only on YouTube videos.

It's a sad lesson in the dangers of unprepared wilderness living.

The pandemic inspired off-grid living

According to her stepsister Trevala Jara, Rebecca Vance got worried about the state of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. So she decided to take her son and live in nature.

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To: nickcarraway

“Pioneers only lived off the land back in the day because game, fish, and food were way more plentiful and easy to obtain from nature, and it was still hard.”

This is a good point, especially in light of a few people here who live in our ‘Outback’ and say things like: “No problem, if the Ukraine War goes south, I’ll just hunt me some venison in my backyard.” I’ve pointed out, that plan is fine if you can rid of 99% of the other people trying to do the same...


41 posted on 10/04/2023 6:34:49 AM PDT by BobL (I own an F150 so that I can tow my boat all day Saturday and look Manly)
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To: CodeToad

The best trout fishing trip I ever had was with my dad all up around there for a week. We were more than ready for camping and fishing and I still remember that it was cold. And some beautiful brown and rainbow trout.


42 posted on 10/04/2023 7:01:11 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

How the tribes treated each other before the White Man arrived. My short list.

http://wkfl.asn.au/bk/crow_creek_history.htm

https://ournativeamericans.blogspot.com/2018/07/1300s-crow-creek-massacre-in-south.html

https://www.academia.edu/7907221/Mass_Grave_at_Crow_Creek_in_South_Dakota_Reveals_How_Indians_Massacred_Indians_in_14th_Century_Attack

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/massacre-sacred-ridge

https://bonesdontlie.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/basketmaker-ii-cave-7-massacre-or-cemetery/

https://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/1991/12/01/scalping-victim/

https://prezi.com/z9ioohxrdgat/anasazi-cannibalism/?fallback=1

https://www.cityweekly.net/BuzzBlog/archives/2013/09/11/new-research-supports-theory-of-ancient-massacre-site-in-utah

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39268873

https://www.historynet.com/when-the-sioux-ambushed-pawnee-hunters-at-massacre-canyon/

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/trail_dust/trail-dust-massacre-at-awatovi-is-little-known-act-of-genocide/article_7231e60b-9897-50bc-992d-8d5344685d4c.html

http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html

https://lostworlds.org/ancient-massacre-discovered-in-new-mexico-was-it-genocide/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/01/tower-human-skulls-mexico-city-aztec-sacrifices?CMP=share_btn_tw&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

https://www.archaeology.org/news/2269-140630-colorado-torture-evidence

https://lostworlds.org/ancient-massacre-discovered-in-new-mexico-was-it-genocide/
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/sacrifice-victims-cahokia-were-locals-not-foreign-captives-003685

https://soar.wichita.edu/bitstream/handle/10057/6098/t12010s_DAVIS_Ivy_SP2012.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=n

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1593823

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archeologists-find-evidence-torture-1200-year-old-massacre-180951922/

https://archive.archaeology.org/9709/newsbriefs/anasazi.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/04/mass-child-human-animal-sacrifice-peru-chimu-science/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-skulls-not-crime-scene-human-sacrifice-ad-900/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexican-site-reveals-brutal-sacrifice-of-spanish-conquistadors/

https://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/parallel-life-and-death-1275-ad-massacred-gallina-and-vanishing-anasazi/

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1988/02/28/trail-of-tears-death-toll-myths-dispelled/62660437007/

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SL002

http://blogoklahoma.us/place/117/kiowa/cutthroat-gap-massacre

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=CU012

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=CL003


43 posted on 10/04/2023 7:20:07 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Delta 21

The poor 14 year old only weighed 40 pounds

Such lunacy. I grew up in the mountains and know how to survive. Wouldn’t want to do it but could if I had to. No fire arms nor fishing gear for these dipwads


44 posted on 10/04/2023 6:58:10 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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