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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Exactly my thoughts.
It’s on the Grit Channel Saturday.
Darwinian preppers!
Anyone post the links to the women’s TikTok claims that they “don’t need no man”?
I think you meant 1874, by 1984 “The Colorado Cannibal” had been dead for close to a 100 years.
She was on the ‘Nutty’ side of the ‘Prepper Scale’ for certain. Too bad she took her kid and sister with her. :(
And there it is...
I met a guy in Alaska that moved up there with his wife and kid and lived in a wall tent the first year - including winter. He moved up there before even finding a job. They were close to town, and had a bunch of home-canned food the wife had prepared before they moved up there.
On an early youtube account of the finding of these two women and boy, it said they were only about 1000 feet away from an established campground. Although the CG was probably closed for winter, and the roads snowed in the 10 to 50 miles or whatever back to a paved road.
I’ve gone camping in the winter with no issues, but not for extended periods of time.
I saw someone online say they were 9 miles from town but I did not check it out at all.
Canned goods freeze, when I was living in Minnesota I kept my beer in an ice chest with a hot water bottle to keep it from freezing and had to change the hot water frequently.
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