• Zron@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How did they leave a car at a campsite for months and not have any kind of search and rescue triggered?

    My buddy got lost on a trail once and had to do an shitty night out in the woods, the next morning there were forest service personnel out looking for him because they spotted his car parked overnight with no camp permit posted.

    I thought this was standard practice at every national and state park. An unattended vehicle is seen as a sure sign that someone is in trouble. I guess I’m never going hiking in Colorado, cause if I get in trouble the CO forest personnel are apparently just going to leave me for dead.

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      1 year ago

      From what I’ve read they weren’t in a sanctioned Park, this was more of a back country area tucked away in the woods.

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      They must have made some sort of effort to hide the vehicle, or park it somewhere it wouldn’t be questioned for some time. If the goal is to get away from people, you don’t want your vehicle to cause someone to come looking for you.

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        The roads would have gotten buried with snow. One snowy day would do it. By the time they realized it, too late. Those forest service roads are not plowed.

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        1 year ago

        Probably froze overnight while sleeping. Between hypothermia and malnutrition, sometimes people just never wake up.

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      It wasn’t a park, so unless someone filed a missing person report the car itself wouldn’t necessarily trigger anything since people abandon all kinds of crazy shit on national forests.