Gone without a trace: 10 hikers who mysteriously vanished from US National Parks

Nypost ^ | 06/14/2023 | Stephanie Pagones

[Leaning Right]

A guy I know was day-hiking in a wilderness area. He took a corner on a wooded path, and there stands a guy with a rifle. “You don’t want to go this way,” says the rifle guy. “No I don’t,” my friend says. My friend then turned around and got out of there quick.

What was rifle guy guarding? I’m guessing some kind of drug operation. And maybe other rifle guys aren’t so quick to give a hiker the option.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Alarming rate” is 1.4 people every year. The USA has over 85 million acres of national parks, so that is 1.65e-8 person/acre-year.

There are 63 national parks in the USA, so that is 0.022 person/park-year.

Everybody panic!

[Fungi]

Walking through a high wooded area, I sudeenly came across a marijuna plantation that had just been watered. I left, knowing they were observing me the entire time.

[Osage Orange]

Got lost in my house a couple times.....

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Bear: Burrrrrpp!

[Gen.Blather]

“Are these people getting lost or what?”

I live in a rural county. A government program has reintroduced wolves, on account of the map shows lots of forest. People are losing pets all the time. Usually, they’re small. It could be wolves or coyotes or even hawks. My cat was attacked between my house and the barn by a hawk. He weighed 12 pounds. He saw it coming and rolled out of the way. But hawks sever the spinal cord behind the skull and then eat the prey alive.

If you think about someone weighing between, say, 150 and 200 it wouldn’t take animals very long to reduce them to very difficult to identify debris.

[Bonemaker]

Hope they were city slickers in shorts and sandals.😀

[BipolarBob]

Family now insists I take a PLB when I go on one of my rambles.

Sure a Portable Lavatory Bidet is nice on a hike but I'm not sure it's worth the weight/reward ratio.

[crusty old prospector]

I am amazed at the number of women who go hiking alone. Glacier. Lake Louise. Arches. I guess it empowers them. I know of a young lady who wanted to feel empowered by going on a trip to Europe alone. After being gang-raped in Sweden after being slipped a date-rate drug, I think she reconsidered.

[Bonemaker]

Probably married guys escaping.

[BipolarBob]

[Bonemaker]

Me too...between the bar and bed!

[x]

Unless there are Giant Worms living under the dunes, the Cape Cod guy was a suicide, or wanted people to think he was.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

LOL!

Personal Locator Beacon.

Kids got me one for Mother's Day.

I have solemnly promised to take it with me when I go for a ramble Up North unless I am being hunted by the FBI in which case I have their permission to chuck it in a truck heading south.

[SteveH]

i’m not saying it was aliens...

...but it was aliens!

[blackdog]

Scat, really.

[Rdct29]

There's a bunch of these stories on Youtube. Most people either get lost or they get caught in a snow storm that came later in the year. Some just used bad judgment. The movie Into The Wild was about the guy who went to live in a broken down bus in Alaska. He starved to death because he couldn't cross the river to get back to the main road. If he walked down the river for a half mile there was a bridge he could have walked across. He wasn't prepared for living like that. He brought a 22 rifle to kill a moose. The movie showed him with a dead moose but he must have shot it a bunch of times. Then he tried using smoke to dry cure the meat but failed. It got covered in maggots and he threw it into the river. Some people don't realize how harsh and unforgiving nature can be.

[Hieronymus]

Some people don’t realize how harsh and unforgiving nature can be.

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Stupid is supposed to hurt.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

They didn’t vanish. They’re still there.
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But if they’re in the ground somewhere they’re invisible, and if their burial locations are unknown, I think one could reasonably say they’re invisible.

[Chickensoup]

A young river tour guide, with his whole life ahead of him, also vanished

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Everybody has their whole life ahead of him or her.