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The Shoe on the Box: How a Misread Clue Sent Rescue Teams Eight Miles Wrong
The Shoe on the Box: How a Misread Clue Sent Rescue Teams Eight Miles Wrong
A single orange-and-gray Salomon Speedcross size ten, laces double-knotted and with an insole molded to a left foot, sat alone on a padlocked equipment housing in western North Carolina - and that lone shoe helped send searchers eight miles off course. Which small detail turned a thousand-person-day effort into a weeks-long chase in the wrong direction, and how did a torn gel wrapper rewrite the map of where Curtis actually was?
In this episode, we walk through the timeline from the Ridgeline 50K start to the moment…
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