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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I wouldn’t want to try to survive a winter in the Midwest in a tent, much less a winter in the Rockies.
“Live off the land” in the mountains, where almost no edible plants grow??? I think she was smoking some of what they made legal in Colorado a while back.
No, you're too polite. She's downright stupid.
I like to trek, both summer and winter, in the county and state forests in upstate NY and Western PA. Its not the rockies, but can get quite remote.
This past winter, on a trail, I came across a woman and two young children, trudging through the snow. They were about 4 miles from a parking lot where there is a short walk to a waterfalls. They ignored all the signs/markers, and had gone exactly the wrong direction - and kept walking. they were wearing Uggs and yoga pants. It was late afternoon. I also think the woman was high - she acted like it. I walked them all the way back to their car
People can be really stupid!
They also failed ... when the barbecue ran out ...
One partial week of on-the-cheap, minimalist Winter camping in Iowa convinced me that I had The Wrong Stuff for a survivalist. It is fun until the first thing goes wrong and starts the snowball rolling downhill.
If they only had someone who could have opened the jars of food they brought...
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DEMOCRATS
A tent, in the Rockies, during the winter.
Can’t fix stupid.
“They also failed.”
Well, not all of them. 45 of them survived, mostly children. So they did better than this group.
Correlation…
Natural selection.
“They also failed.”
Not all of them. Some survived on shank steaks and ham
Kinda like Alferd Packer survived in Colorado
To quote the judge”
“Apr 18, 1984 — “Stand up, Alferd Packer, you voracious, man-eating s— of a b——. There were seven Democrats in Hinsdale County, and you ate five of them.”
Yep and were planning on setting up camp in their backyard,overnight for real experience...
McCandless comes to mind
Of the hundred possible stories, this wasn’t one of them
Correction: should read Apr 18, 1884
“survived on canned food and sheltered in a tent before a harsh winter”
Stupid people.
they were wearing Uggs and yoga pants.
And Flip-Flops
The WEF is deeply gladened...
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