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Left the Jeep, Took the Tower Road: Grandma's 17-Hour Desert Gamble
Left the Jeep, Took the Tower Road: Grandma's 17-Hour Desert Gamble
A single white canvas shoe, pink velcro size four, propped against a Jeep’s front left wheel in 94°F desert silence started a search that revealed a 62-year-old grandmother and her seven-year-old grandson had survived 17 hours in the Corado Basin. How did a gallon of water, a crayon drawing and one choice to walk toward transmission towers beat every desert survival manual?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the morning Sharon Young found the abandoned Cherokee to the decisions Darlene Rice made when a tire blew on…
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