Posted on 07/26/2023 8:18:04 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
Last summer, Rebecca Vance talked with her family about a dream she’d had: She wanted to live in a land disconnected from the world, which she viewed as chaotic and dangerous.
She told her stepsister, Trevala Jara, that she could grow and gather her own food in a remote place, that she and her teenage son could be happy and safe away from the news, the viruses, the politics of modern-day America.
“I’m going to worry about you,” Jara told her stepsister. But Vance was resolute. “I’m going to live off the land,” she replied.
Her decision proved to be fatal. On Tuesday, a coroner said that he had identified three bodies that had been found earlier this month in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains as those of Rebecca Vance, 42, her 14-year-old son and her sister, Christine Vance, 41, who, Jara said, had ventured with them out of concern for their safety, believing an extra set of hands could be useful.
The coroner’s findings came more than a week after the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office said that the bodies of the campers had been found near Gold Creek Campground, a discovery that drew national attention as officials sought to identify the victims and determine why they had apparently attempted to camp through a brutal winter.
Michael Barnes, the Gunnison County coroner, said on Tuesday that the family members were all from Colorado Springs and had lived “off the grid,” survived on canned food and sheltered in a tent before a harsh winter or malnourishment most likely led to their deaths.
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Suicide by: - it’s not really as easy as it looks on tv…
They actually survived by cannibalism
From the article:
“survived on canned food”
I always laugh at the multitude of apocalyptic shows and movies where the people survive by scrounging for canned food. People should really look at the calorie content and nutritional value of canned foods. They would probably be surprised.
“Timothy.....Timothy....”
“I’ve seen new campers try and start a fire with damp logs and charcoal lighter. This is funny until it’s cold.”
I’ve seen the same. It takes patience, especially when you are shivering from the cold, to start out with fine twigs and shavings and then gradually move to larger and large sticks in order to get a fire started before adding on larger logs. People do not know how to surround the fire with the large logs and slowly push them into the fire. A fire pit built correctly can last all night and then quickly be brought back to large flames the next morning with little effort.
We taught our children and grandchildren how to find the materials needed and build a campfire properly before starting it with just one wooden stick match. (Make a little stick teepee) And in an emergency you can use the little bits of lint always found in jacket pockets to use as fire starting material.
Watched the movie Jeremiah Johnson too many times and thought it was that easy. Prolly didn’t have a Hawken gun, that’s why they starved.
My morbid BFF wrote the 3 corpses, an “Irish Poem”
A Dead-End Kid???
An Irish Poem by Squeeky Fromm
Three people, they all went off-grid -
Not something that they should have did!
But they did, and thus hence -
Their pain was “in tents” -
And they should not have taken the kid!!!
Darwinism.
Great. Covid claims more lives...
“Just imagine a cold winter, only electric heat, and the power goes out for an extended period of time.”
I think that’s what they’re hoping for?
After the whole pandemic thing and watching Canada do the euthanasia these people want only five hundred million on the planet, so I agree.
Alfred Packers’ Judge seemed a bit Off.
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Yuppers I need to wash after reading the the tail.
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Eye Wash won’t do.
The mountains are like the bison in Yellowstone. They look cute.
Timothy Snackwell “Off the Grid?”
A tent? In Gunnison? An area that can, and has, hit 40° below zero. Celsius and Fahrenheit.
If one opts to try and live like a mountain man better know how to.
Takes a lot of common sense and good hunting skills.
Makes me wonder if she was going the wrong way on purpose with nefarious plans in mind for the kids and had to change plans when she came across you.
Hi.
Could it be that liberalism is a fatal disease?
Nah.
5.56mm
Since retirement, nine years or so ago, Mrs.Lucky and I have lived on a farm in southern Indiana with no running water or electricity. We're perfectly warm and well fed, but a farm in the eastern corn belt may be a little more hospitable in winter than the Colorado Rockies.
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