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They Flipped the Stones: The Circle That Erased a Trail · Scary Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: At 6.47 on a February morning, a birdwatcher named Earl
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  Speaker 1: Edwards stopped walking. He had crossed Fenwick Slope every winter
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  Speaker 1: for 11 years. He knew every rock on that tallest field,
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  Speaker 1: and every single stone in front of him was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: They were flipped, dark sides up, wet undersides exposed to
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  Speaker 1: the cold air. Every stone inside a rough circle roughly
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  Speaker 1: 40 feet across had been turned over, Everything outside that
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  Speaker 1: circle was exactly as it had always been. Earl stood
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  Speaker 1: there for 11 minutes before he reached for his radio.
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  Speaker 1: There was a trekking pole in the willows just below
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  Speaker 1: the circle's edge, a yellow card clipped to its wrist strap.
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  Speaker 1: And somewhere in Harmon National Forest, Keswick County, Nevada, a
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  Speaker 1: woman named Lori Hunt had not been seen in six days.
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  Speaker 1: That detail, the circle, the turned stones, the yellow card,
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  Speaker 1: would stop search and rescue teams cold. The dogs had
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  Speaker 1: already been up here. They had found the center of
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  Speaker 1: that circle, locked on it, and gone silent.
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  Speaker 2: No exit vector. No trail leading out.
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  Speaker 1: Just a point in space where the scent ended. At
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  Speaker 1: 21 degrees Fahrenheit, with the wind barely moving. Before this
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  Speaker 1: story resolves, you will understand exactly what turned those stones.
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  Speaker 1: You will understand what the dogs were tracking, and why
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  Speaker 1: the trail seemed to vanish. And you will understand how
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  Speaker 1: a 48-year-old woman survived six nights alone. at 7,400 feet,
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  Speaker 1: with a fractured ankle and half a liter of water.
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  Speaker 1: But to get there, you need to know who Lori
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  Speaker 1: Hunt was before that Sunday morning when she drove alone
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  Speaker 1: into the Nevada mountains. Lori Hunt did not do dramatic
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  Speaker 1: things carelessly. That is the first thing anyone who knew
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  Speaker 1: her would tell you. She was 48 years old, an
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  Speaker 1: associate professor of structural geology at Broward University in Elko, Nevada.
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  Speaker 1: She had spent two decades studying the way rock fractures,
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  Speaker 1: the geometry of failure inside stones, faults, pressure, the slow
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  Speaker 1: violence of the earth bending and breaking along invisible seams.
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  Speaker 1: It was meticulous work. It required patience, precision, and a
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  Speaker 1: particular kind of respect for terrain that most people never develop.
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  Speaker 1: She was also the kind of person who called her
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  Speaker 1: sister every Wednesday night at 11.15.
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  Speaker 2: Not approximately 11.15.
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  Speaker 1: 11.15. Diane is Lori's younger sister. She described it this
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  Speaker 1: way in the days after the rescue. The call came
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  Speaker 1: like clockwork, no matter where Lori was in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Fields season, conferences, late grading sessions. The phone rang at 11.15.
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  Speaker 1: That was simply what happened. Lori had been documenting a
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  Speaker 1: fault exposure at a site called Overton Face since October
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  Speaker 1: of 2018. Overton Face is a cliff band in Harmon
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  Speaker 1: National Forest, accessible by crossing Fenwick Slope, a talus field
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  Speaker 1: 300 yards wide. and roughly 120 feet of vertical drop
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  Speaker 1: sitting at about 7,400 feet elevation. The slope is a
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  Speaker 1: field of broken limestone blocks, the kind of terrain that
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  Speaker 1: demands full attention with every step. She had made this
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  Speaker 1: trip before. She knew the approach. She packed accordingly. Foil
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  Speaker 1: emergency blanket, headlamp, half a liter of water, two energy bars,
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  Speaker 1: and two trekking poles. She left one of those poles
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  Speaker 1: in her truck. That was a normal choice for her.
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  Speaker 1: The descent from Overton Face was less technical and she
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  Speaker 1: preferred the freedom of one hand on the steeper sections.
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  Speaker 1: She left Elko at 6.20 in the morning on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: February 3rd.
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  Speaker 2: She arrived at the Fenwick.
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  Speaker 1: Creek Access Road, lower lot, at approximately 9.40. She locked
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  Speaker 1: her truck. She left her packed lunch on the passenger seat.
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  Speaker 1: She left her full thermos there too. She did not
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  Speaker 1: plan to be gone long. The thermos would still be
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  Speaker 1: full four days later when a Keswick County deputy walked
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  Speaker 1: up to that locked truck on a Thursday morning and
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  Speaker 1: looked through the window. Diane had raised the alarm. Wednesday's
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  Speaker 1: call never came. She texted three times. She called twice
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  Speaker 1: more Thursday morning. When Lori's 8 a.m. seminar at Brouwer
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  Speaker 1: had no professor and no explanation, Diane called the county.
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  Speaker 1: By Thursday afternoon, Brenda Cole, Keswick County's search and rescue coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: Nine years in that role had assembled a six-person team
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  Speaker 1: with two canine handlers and was driving toward Harmon National Forest.
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  Speaker 2: Cole was experienced.
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  Speaker 1: She had worked missing persons in mountain terrain across every season.
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  Speaker 1: She had seen people underestimate Nevada's February conditions, and she
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  Speaker 1: had seen what those conditions could do. A woman alone,
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  Speaker 1: no communication, six days since last contact.
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  Speaker 2: The math was not good.
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  Speaker 1: But Lori Hunt was not the kind of person who
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  Speaker 1: underestimated terrain. That was the thing that kept nagging at
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  Speaker 1: Cole as she drove. The packed lunch still sitting there.
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  Speaker 1: The full thermos. The locked truck. The absence of any
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  Speaker 1: distress communication. None of it fit the profile of someone
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  Speaker 1: who had made a catastrophic error in judgment. Something had
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  Speaker 1: simply gone wrong. The question was where, and the dogs
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  Speaker 1: were about to give Cole an answer that raised far
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  Speaker 1: more questions than it resolved. The two dogs hit the
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  Speaker 1: talus field at different angles. Their handlers worked them in parallel,
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  Speaker 1: reading body language in the beam of a headlamp. Temperature,
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  Speaker 1: 21 degrees. Wind, 4 miles per hour. Northwest, no precipitation
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  Speaker 1: in 48 hours. Scent conditions, Cole noted in her log
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  Speaker 1: at 9.51 that Thursday evening were as good as February gets.
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  Speaker 1: Both dogs stopped at the same place, not near the
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  Speaker 1: edge of the slope. not at the trailhead, at the
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  Speaker 1: approximate center of a section of talus that, in the dark,
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  Speaker 1: looked like every other section of talus on Fenwick's slope.
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  Speaker 1: Both animals went into terminus alert, the behavior a trained
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  Speaker 1: search dog displays when it has located the highest concentration
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  Speaker 1: of a subject's scent and has nowhere further to go,
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  Speaker 1: no exit vector. Cole walked the perimeter herself, flashlight low.
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  Speaker 1: The scent, as far as the dogs were concerned, simply
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  Speaker 1: ended there. She logged it. She kept searching, But the
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  Speaker 1: image stayed with her, a 40-foot radius of open talus.
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  Speaker 1: Two dogs sitting down in the middle of it, telling
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  Speaker 1: her the person she was looking for had been there
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  Speaker 1: and gone nowhere. Earl Edwards had been counting raptors on
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  Speaker 1: Fenwick Slope for 11 winters. He knew that talus field
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  Speaker 1: the way a person knows a room. They have walked
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  Speaker 1: through 10,000 times.
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  Speaker 2: He knew which.
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  Speaker 1: Rock clusters the prairie falcons favored. He knew the drainage
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  Speaker 1: line below. He arrived at 7,400 feet. at approximately 6.47
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  Speaker 1: that Saturday morning, February 9th, and he stopped walking almost immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Something was wrong with the stones.
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  Speaker 2: Not all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Not the stones outside a rough circle he could only
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  Speaker 1: perceive by its boundary, where normal ended and something else began.
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  Speaker 1: But inside that boundary, spanning roughly 40 feet in radius,
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  Speaker 1: every stone that should have shown its pale lichen crust
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  Speaker 1: was showing its underside instead.
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  Speaker 2: Dark, wet, turned.
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  Speaker 1: The lichen side faced the frozen ground. The dark, moisture-heavy
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  Speaker 1: underside faced the sky.
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  Speaker 2: He stood at the.
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  Speaker 1: Edge of it for eleven minutes before he reached for
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  Speaker 1: his radio. There was no obvious mechanism. Wind does not
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  Speaker 1: flip individual stones and leave adjacent ones untouched. Animals don't
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  Speaker 1: move through talus in a forty-foot circle, flipping each piece
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  Speaker 1: methodically and leaving the perimeter clean. Edwards had crossed that
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  Speaker 1: slope in every season for eleven years.
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  Speaker 2: He had.
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  Speaker 1: According to his own account, never once seen the underside
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  Speaker 1: of those particular stones. The trekking pole was in the willows,
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  Speaker 1: 40 feet below the circle's lower edge. Lodged upright, a
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  Speaker 1: yellow card clipped to the wrist strap, a field label,
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  Speaker 1: the kind geologists use to code core samples. The number
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  Speaker 1: on it meant nothing to the first responders who photographed it.
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  Speaker 1: It was a routine field notation. But the pole was there.
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  Speaker 1: and the stone circle was there, and whoever had left
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  Speaker 1: them had vanished. By the time Cole arrived at the
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  Speaker 1: circle and stood where the dogs had sat, two nights
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  Speaker 1: before she understood that the search had just changed shape,
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  Speaker 1: the dogs had been right. Someone had been in this
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  Speaker 1: exact spot. The evidence of their presence was unmistakable, methodical, and,
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  Speaker 1: in the February light, completely impossible to interpret, three-quarters of
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  Speaker 1: a mile downstream, under a rock overhang on the east
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  Speaker 1: bank of the drainage. Doug Painter found Lori Hunt at 11.44
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  Speaker 1: that same morning.
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  Speaker 2: She was alive.
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  Speaker 1: Core temperature, 91 degrees Fahrenheit.
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  Speaker 2: Right ankle. Fractured. Distal fibula.
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  Speaker 1: Clean break. She had been there for six days. She
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  Speaker 1: had melted snow against her skin for water. She had
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  Speaker 1: rationed two energy bars.
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  Speaker 2: She had stayed put and waited.
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  Speaker 1: Sandra Fitch, the responding EMT, took the first fragmented account
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  Speaker 1: at the overhang. Lori was hypothermic. and only intermittently coherent.
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  Speaker 1: What she said in those first minutes did not explain
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  Speaker 1: the stone circle. It did not explain the dogs. It
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  Speaker 1: did not explain why a trained search team with two
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  Speaker 1: canine handlers had found a scent terminus two nights earlier,
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  Speaker 1: and no living person within reach of it. The yellow
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  Speaker 1: card on the trekking pole was hers. She confirmed that immediately,
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  Speaker 1: even through the hypothermia. The code was from her field notebook,
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  Speaker 1: a location reference she used to organize sample data from
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  Speaker 1: the Overton Face Survey. She had clipped it to the
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  Speaker 1: wrist strap that morning, February 3rd, before she started up
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  Speaker 1: the slope, the pole itself she had lost in the
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  Speaker 1: willows during her descent.
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  Speaker 2: But none of that touched the circle.
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  Speaker 1: It took approximately ten days, after discharge, after her core
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  Speaker 1: temperature had stabilized, after the cognitive fog of six days
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  Speaker 1: of hypothermia had partially cleared, before Lori Hunt could reconstruct
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  Speaker 1: what had happened on that tallest field on the afternoon
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  Speaker 1: of February 3rd. Here is what she remembered. She heard
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  Speaker 1: the break before she felt it. The sound arrived first.
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  Speaker 2: A sharp report. like a branch.
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  Speaker 1: Snapping and then the pain came and then the ground
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  Speaker 1: she had fallen approximately 30 feet down the tallis face
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  Speaker 1: when she stopped moving she knew immediately what had happened
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  Speaker 1: she had fractured her right ankle she had one trekking
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  Speaker 1: pole she had no signal she had at most five
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  Speaker 1: hours before dark She did not panic. This detail, consistent
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  Speaker 1: across every account she gave, is essential to understanding what
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  Speaker 1: came next.
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  Speaker 2: She assessed.
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  Speaker 1: She had a foil emergency blanket, a headlamp, half a
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  Speaker 1: liter of water, and two energy bars. She needed to
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  Speaker 1: get off the slope before dark. She could not put
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  Speaker 1: weight on her right foot. She could not use both
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  Speaker 1: poles because she had left the second.
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  Speaker 2: One in the truck.
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  Speaker 1: So she moved the way a geologist moves when she
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  Speaker 1: needs to cross unstable ground without both feet. One fixed anchor,
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  Speaker 1: one reach, one test, one step. She planted the pole.
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  Speaker 1: She pivoted on it. She reached with her left hand
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  Speaker 1: to flip a stone and check whether the surface beneath
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  Speaker 1: was stable enough to take her weight.
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  Speaker 2: She pivoted again. She did this, according to her own estimate.
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  Speaker 1: For 40 to 50 minutes across the width of the
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  Speaker 1: talus field. The radius of the circle matched the length
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  Speaker 1: of her arm reach from a fixed pivot point. Every
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  Speaker 1: stone she had flipped, she had flipped intentionally, not to
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  Speaker 1: make a circle. not to signal, because she was a
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  Speaker 1: structural geologist crossing a fractured surface in the dark. And
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  Speaker 1: that is exactly what a structural geologist does. She reads
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  Speaker 1: the underside of the rock to understand whether it will hold.
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  Speaker 1: The circle was not a circle. It was the geometry
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  Speaker 1: of one injured woman's survival crossing, laid out in stone,
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  Speaker 1: and the dogs had found the center of it, the
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  Speaker 1: spot where she had pivoted longest, where the scent.
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  Speaker 2: Had pooled deepest, and told Cole the truth. She had
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  Speaker 2: been there.
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  Speaker 1: She had simply moved on before the team arrived. Cole's
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  Speaker 1: later explanation was mechanical. The spiral pivot path had deposited
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  Speaker 1: concentric arcs of scent, heaviest at the center, weaker at
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  Speaker 1: the edges, producing exactly the terminus alert both animals had displayed.
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  Speaker 1: Cole called this explanation reasonable. She also noted with the
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  Speaker 1: precision of someone who had worked nine years in that terrain,
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  Speaker 1: that she had never seen the underside of those stones
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  Speaker 1: before in her life.
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  Speaker 2: That is not a mystery.
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  Speaker 1: It is a measurement of how rarely anyone crosses that
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  Speaker 1: slope the way Lori Hunt crossed it that afternoon. Doug
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  Speaker 1: Painter found her at 11.44 in the morning on February 9, 2019.
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  Speaker 1: She was under a rock overhang on the east bank
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  Speaker 1: of the drainage, three-quarters of a mile downstream from where
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  Speaker 1: her trekking pole had been found. She had been there
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  Speaker 1: for six days. Her core temperature was 91 degrees Fahrenheit.
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  Speaker 1: Her right ankle was fractured. a clean break of the
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  Speaker 1: distal fibula consistent with a fall on talus at elevation.
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  Speaker 1: She had been melting snow against her skin for water.
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  Speaker 1: She had two energy bars and a foil emergency blanket,
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  Speaker 1: and she had used both. Painter was a retired wildland firefighter.
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  Speaker 1: He had worked search and rescue long enough to know
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  Speaker 1: what a person looks like when survival has become a
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  Speaker 1: purely mechanical exercise. Lori Hunt, according to the record, was coherent. Fragmented,
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  Speaker 1: but coherent. EMT Sandra Fitch took the initial account at
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  Speaker 1: the scene. Lori could answer questions. She knew where she was.
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  Speaker 1: She knew why she had stayed put. She said she
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  Speaker 1: believed someone would come. She had no way to call
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  Speaker 1: for help from the field. She had no mechanism to
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  Speaker 1: trigger an alert. She had simply made the calculation that
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  Speaker 1: staying in one place gave the searchers a fixed target,
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  Speaker 1: and she had trusted that calculation for six days at
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  Speaker 1: 21 degrees, alone, on one leg, in the dark. That
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  Speaker 1: is not a mystery either. That is a structural geologist
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  Speaker 1: applying load-bearing logic to her own survival. Brenda Cole closed
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  Speaker 1: the incident file in March 2019. The formal conclusion was precise.
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  Speaker 1: No anomalies unexplained by injury behavior, terrain, and subject competencies.
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  Speaker 1: Every element that had appeared strange in the first hours
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  Speaker 1: of the search had a mechanical explanation grounded in who
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  Speaker 1: Lori Hunt was and what she knew how to do.
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  Speaker 1: The turned stones were the geometry of her crossing. The
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  Speaker 1: scent terminus was the geometry of her pivot. The yellow
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  Speaker 1: core sample card was the reflex of a field researcher
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  Speaker 1: who labels everything she leaves in the landscape because in
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  Speaker 1: her work, an unlabeled object is a lost data point.
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  Speaker 1: Cull had coordinated search and rescue in Keswick County for
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  Speaker 1: nine years. She had seen dogs work broken terrain in
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  Speaker 1: every condition the Nevada high desert produces. She called her
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  Speaker 1: scent explanation reasonable. She did not call it certain. That
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  Speaker 1: distinction matters. There are things the record closes and things
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  Speaker 1: the record simply stops asking about. Cole knew the difference.
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  Speaker 1: What remains in the file is not a gap in understanding.
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  Speaker 1: It is the honest edge of what documentation can reach.
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  Speaker 1: Lori Hunt was discharged from Elko Regional Medical Center on
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  Speaker 1: February 22, 2019, 13 days after Painter pulled her out
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  Speaker 1: from under that overhang. She returned to teaching in the
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  Speaker 1: fall semester of 2019, There is something in that fact
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  Speaker 1: that resists easy framing. A 48-year-old woman fractured her ankle
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  Speaker 1: alone at 7,400 feet in February in Nevada, survived six
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  Speaker 1: days without rescue, and was back in a classroom explaining
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  Speaker 1: fault mechanics to undergraduates seven months later. The record does
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  Speaker 1: not editorialize about this. It simply states it about 10
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  Speaker 1: days after the rescue, after her cognition had fully stabilized.
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  Speaker 1: Lori gave a second interview. That is when she explained
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  Speaker 1: the stones. Not because she had been hiding anything. She
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  Speaker 1: had been hypothermic when Fitch took the first account, and
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  Speaker 1: some of the sequence had not yet reassembled itself. When
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  Speaker 1: it did, she described the crossing with the methodical precision
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  Speaker 1: of someone reconstructing a field observation.
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  Speaker 2: One pivot point. One reach. One test.
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  Speaker 1: Forty to fifty minutes. The radius of the circle was
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  Speaker 1: the length of her arm. She had not known she
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: was making a pattern. She had been reading the ground-
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  Speaker 1: Earl Edwards, the birdwatcher, who found the stone circle at 6.47
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, stood at its edge for 11 minutes
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  Speaker 1: before he radioed.
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  Speaker 2: 11 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: He had been surveying raptors on Fenwick Slope for 11
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  Speaker 1: consecutive winters. He had never seen the underside of those
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  Speaker 1: stones before. The sight stopped him completely. What stopped him
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  Speaker 1: was real. The explanation does not erase what he saw.
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  Speaker 1: It explains it. That is the part of this story
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  Speaker 1: that stays. There are things that look like signals and
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  Speaker 1: turn out to be survival mechanics. There are patterns that
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  Speaker 1: look intentional and turn out to be the geometry of
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  Speaker 1: a body, doing what it knows how to do under pressure.
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  Speaker 1: The stone circle on Fenwick Slope was both at once,
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  Speaker 1: it was completely explainable, and it was also something that
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  Speaker 1: a man who had spent 11 years in that terrain
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  Speaker 1: had never seen and could not initially account for. Both
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  Speaker 1: of those things are true. They do not cancel each
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  Speaker 1: other out. Lori Hunt still calls her sister Diane every
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night at 11.15. That call has not been missed
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  Speaker 1: since February 6th, 2019. The stones on Fenwick Slope have
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  Speaker 1: weathered through five winters since the search. The lichen has
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  Speaker 1: grown back over most of the surfaces that were exposed
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  Speaker 1: that afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: The slope looks like it always looked. The record of what.
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  Speaker 1: Happened there lives in a closed file in Keswick County,
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  Speaker 1: in a few lines of a sire log. and in
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  Speaker 1: the exact memory of a geologist who crossed it on
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  Speaker 1: one leg and read every stone she touched. This show
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