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Boot on the Ledge: How a Rancher Survived an Icy Vanishment

Boot on the Ledge: How a Rancher Survived an Icy Vanishment

A single dry size-seven boot, laces still tied, sat four feet from the waterline on a granite ledge while the lake below had already swallowed a snowmobile - and nobody knew whether the owner was alive. How did a woman with decades of wilderness experience vanish from an apparently intact sheet of ice, and what did she do in the hour and forty-nine minutes afterward?

In this episode, we follow the timeline and concrete evidence found on the Shelf and around Callen Lake, hearing about routines, tools, and the decisions that led to a…

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