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The Dry Jacket on the Wet Boulder: How Roger Walked Backwards From Memory

The Dry Jacket on the Wet Boulder: How Roger Walked Backwards From Memory

A dry jacket, folded with sleeves tucked and a map on top, sat on a wet boulder at the edge of a gravel bar while the surrounding rock was soaked from runoff-yet the jacket and map were dry. The man nearby, twenty-eight-year-old Roger Gallagher, woke with no memory of placing them; how did a detailed climber end up unconscious beside a channel with that impossible evidence?

In this episode, we trace the timeline from Roger signing the Ridgeback trailhead register at 7:42 a.m. to a summit photo at 10:51 a.m., the sudden…

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