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She Left the Trail: Seven Days Alone, One Shoe, Survival
She Left the Trail: Seven Days Alone, One Shoe, Survival
A single neon yellow shoe, size eight and laced in a double knot, sat upright on a granite ledge with no mud and no weathering-left as a deliberate marker on day two of a seven-day survival ordeal. How did a seasoned ultrarunner, trained in terrain and wilderness first aid, end up seven days inside Coldwater Gulch with one shattered ankle and no rescue?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the Harmon Ridge Trail Marathon start to the discovery of the shoe forty-one days after Kelly Turner vanished, following the choices…
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