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The Window Note That Sent Rescuers the Wrong Way
The Window Note That Sent Rescuers the Wrong Way
Cold logic saved and nearly doomed a professional surveyor: a waxy three-line window note, written March 9, explicitly told rescuers “GOING EAST. CREEK.” - but the writer had left her field notebook saying she went west. Which direction did she really take, and why did she misdirect anyone who might follow her?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from March 5 to March 14, track the equipment, decisions, and exact words left in place, and reveal the single overlooked item that changed the search - was the window message a decoy to…
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