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Left the Jeep, Took the Desert: A Mother's 22-Hour Walk to Survival
Left the Jeep, Took the Desert: A Mother's 22-Hour Walk to Survival
Heat climbed past 91°F before eight a.m. and a sealed 20-ounce bottle sat untouched on a passenger seat in a Jeep that would reach 131°F - a deliberate-looking scene on a road that averages eight vehicles a day; why did Marilyn leave that water behind and walk into a cellular dead zone with her nine-year-old? What happened in the next 22 hours that turned routine decisions into a survival chain?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of what occurred after Marilyn Barnes' Jeep failed near mile marker 28 on Saguaro Bench Road…
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