[cyclotic]

OK, it's been 30 minutes with no responses. I'll start teh party by being thankful she got rescued but wondering who would be dumb enough to go camping in the woods with no plan or return date and not letting anyone know where she went.

[TADSLOS]

This lady is extremely lucky to still be alive. Kudos to the hikers and how they handled the situation.

[DB]

Tough woman, but not too bright.

[FReepaholic]

...She is extremely lucky...

If she was lucky she wouldn't have gotten lost in the first place.

[Captain Rhino]

Yet another example of a backcountry explorer who could have used a cell phone and a cell phone charger ($19.00). Fortunately, this time the lost person lived.

[dennisw]

Dorn's brother-in-law, Stan Cornine -- who traveled to Silver City from South Carolina during last month's search -- told the Las Cruces Sun-News at the time that Dorn was an experienced camper who was at home in the outdoors.

Cornine, who described Dorn as "very much a free spirit," said he and his wife sometimes would go for more than a year without hearing from her. But he said she had called before she headed to Silver City to let her family know.

Carolyn Dorn was rescued after she went missing in Gila National Forest, New Mexico, nearly five weeks ago.

Written by Bruce Daniels - ABQnewsSeeker   

Friday, 29 December 2006

Official search called off, but family keeps vigil for 52-year-old.

Carolyn Dorn, 52, a familiar face to people around Silver City and Grant County, went missing some time around Dec. 6, and her locked Mazda was found on Dec. 11 parked in a ravine off Turkey Creek Road in the Cliff/Gila area, but a subsequent search turned up nothing, the Silver City Sun-News reported today on its Web site.

Her ATM card was used in Las Cruces on Dec. 6 and her cell phone was used to check voice mail messages on the same day in Las Cruces, but apparently no one has seen her since, her brother-in-law Stan Cornine, who arrived in Silver City on Wednesday from his home in South Carolina, told the Sun-News.

Cornine described his wife's sister as a "free spirit," who wasn't often in touch with her family, but said he last heard from Dorn in early December, at which time she said she was heading west, possibly to Silver City, the Sun-News said.

Before that, Cornine said, his sister-in-law had called during the summer to say she was living in Florida, the paper reported.

"She could very well be camping or her car could have become stuck and she went for help," Cornine told the Sun-News. "She may be snug in an apartment somewhere," he said, adding however that she had told her family of suicide attempts in the past.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

She's lucky that they found her at all, rather than just a pile of bones, if she got lost in Gila...

[Heatseeker]

Sounds like Chris McCandless, the clueless 'free spirit' who got trapped by a swollen Alaskan river and starved to death in 1992; whose story was told in Jon Krakauer's book "Into the Wild".

[Buckhead]

For the poor judgment in not leaving an itinerary, she showed good judgment on the trail once the predicament arose - it's what kept her alive.

[leda]

she's not too bright for getting into that situation,
but i do admire the way she managed to survive
for 5 weeks out there alone.

excellent rescue efforts by the hikers and the guard.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this Upper Midwest (WI, IA, MN, MI, and anyone else) list, largely rural issues, please FR mail me. And ping me is you see articles of interest.

[Paulus Invictus]

Hiking alone, telling no one you are going or where and being a lone female hiker is just asking for trouble. Happens all the time, but people are slow learners. The Grand Canyon hides many bodies of such hikers. We met a lone female hiker on top of a mountain once. She was lost but wouldn't admit it. We showed her the only route down, a very difficult and dangerous way, but we never knew if she made it.

[NRA2BFree]

I heard that on the Albuquerque news last night. They said she was lost for 5 weeks. She's lucky to be alive!