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She Was Alive On Roofed Snow-Why Searchers Looked The Wrong Drainage
She Was Alive On Roofed Snow-Why Searchers Looked The Wrong Drainage
Cold, isolated, and still conscious inside a truck buried under four feet of consolidated snow, she left a double-knotted size-seven waterproof boot on the roof and a Douglas fir sprig tucked under its tongue as a deliberate signal-yet searchers missed her for nine of eleven days. The photograph from an airplane pointed teams to the wrong drainage and a single dog later corrected what trained searchers could not. How did a misread aerial image and two reversed batteries in a GPS combine to nearly kill a skilled backcountry…
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