Ok so fair point - that they don’t want searchers or others to go searching in that spot because it may be dangerous.
Spring runoff will move stuff around anyway, if posters are right ^^^ that the item found was in the river. I'm sure it was, too, since it's the only thing that makes sense from drones being in the area, and it was very likely items belonging to LM would end up in the river, one way or another.
Good point about family decision.
No worries on hanging onto a topic. It happens all the time.
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It’s possible there are remains scattered over a vast area. It was pouring with rain all the way back when LM set out. Soon, there were floods. Water would be moving very fast.
I sooo agree with you. For me, the red flag in this instance was the person getting the group together highlighting the fact that he had a PLB.
The family is also trying to be clear that they are not recruiting. That page was used by others as a jumping off point for spreading the word.
I saw that, too. I wish the family had added to check in with NPS.
MOO I believe there were multiple reasons for the accident including but not limited to the weather.
I agree with you, there are many possible reasons for the accident. For me, judging from family and photos, I speculate the weather by itself was not survivable by someone who had no safety gear, no stove, likely inadequate clothing. Perhaps hypothermia within 2 hours because of the cold rain; I have a feeling from what I see she didn't know to head back to the car, which likely means she didn't know to pitch her tent ASAP.... I'm wildly guessing, though, she fell at a river or a creek crossing on Day 1.
The Amanda Park thing got my attention, too, but I didn't realize it was quite that far.
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Love this article as it applies to LM, especially the comments on having a fire source, insulating sleeping pad (LM didn't have one of these, either), the need for abundant food and water.... But especially this:Today, it's 50-ish in southern NH, pelting with a cold rain. Miserable. A time to take cover, and stay warm and dry. No one wants to be out. LM was from southern NH (later moved to Burlington VT). On the day LM set out on her backpack, Quinault had about 7x the rain that will fall today in her home area. There was no "window" of good weather then in the Olympics, either before, during, or after. Those days left with fall.
Despite all that, LM set out, with inadequate raingear, no way to get warm (no stove), having ounce-counted away the gear that might have kept her alive.
There's a recent article in a Laconia NH newspaper (an hour north of where LM was from) where the SAR lead on the Emily Sotelo case lists all the things ES did wrong. He might as well have been speaking about LM. Such an unfortunate ending for both.
This sums up where ES's and LM's thinking went disastrously wrong, but the whole article applies to this case. Different state, same issues.
“It's great to have goals — we all want to push ourselves and say ‘I did that.’ But at what cost?” said Capt. Michael Eastman of New Hampshire Fish and Game. “Now we have a young lady who is deceased and had her whole life ahead of her.”
How to stay safe outdoors in the winter
FRANCONIA — Search and rescue teams recovered the body of 19-year-old Emily Sotelo, a college student from Massachusetts, last week on the north side of Mount Lafayette. Sotelo’s mother droppedwww.laconiadailysun.com
Well, your last paragraph sounds a little harsh, but you’re probably just taking a cue from Eastman and calling it what it is.