Signal Where Snow Shouldn't Be: The Trekking Pole in the Ledge
Signal Where Snow Shouldn't Be: The Trekking Pole in the Ledge
An avalanche beacon was pinging in willow-thick, snowless terrain 1,400 vertical feet below the nearest mapped snowfield - a working signal that should not have been there. A trekking pole manufactured no later than 2006 was later found wedged in a limestone ledge where no human presence had been documented all season; how did it get there and who used it to survive for two days?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the day Brenda Dalton signed into the Aldric trailhead to the moment search teams shifted course…
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