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Forty-Eight Candles, Lost on a Snow-Buried Trailhead
Forty-Eight Candles, Lost on a Snow-Buried Trailhead
A pristine vanilla cake with forty-eight candles sat unfrozen on a passenger seat in a locked Subaru amid eight inches of February snow - while its owner was stranded on a six-thousand-foot volcanic plateau with cliff faces up to two hundred feet high. How did a careful, methodical paraglider end up trapped where descent without technical gear was impossible, and why was his birthday cake left untouched four thousand two hundred feet below?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the morning the cake was left at Caldera Vista trailhead…
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