Posted on 06/12/2013 9:39:28 PM PDT by Baynative
Authorities are searching for a Washington woman who was last seen walking away from a campground in nothing but a fanny pack to go on a 'spiritual quest'.
Maureen Kelly, 19, went missing early Sunday night from the Canyon Creek Campground in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southwest Washington, according to KPTV.
A friend told the Skamania County Sheriff's office that Kelly left the campsite to go on a naked 'spiritual quest' with nothing but a fanny pack, but she never returned.
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She is now one with nature. Nature known as bear scat.
Magic mushrooms?
What’s really sad is that nobody stopped her . No friends ? No one with the sense to talk her out of this crazy and dangerous idea . It goes to show ,perhaps, how far gone we are into the ‘whatever’s cool ‘ ‘ not my problem’ state of mind . And even if someone didn’t want to get involved directly ; CALL THE COPS ! right away , get some help for an obviously self destructive deranged girl . Yet nobody did nuthin . THAT is sad indeed . She was someones dear sweet daughter ....
Bare Breasted????
Sad indeed....in many ways. She’s a typical postwestern female. Every culture, every person, every situation is all the same to her. Everyone is equal. No male is going to harm a naked 19 year old girl walking around nude....it’s all about peace & love.
Want to bet who she voted for ? The level of miseducation in her family & schooling helped put her nude & in the woods.
Ummm, sweetie? A spiritual quest is a journey in the spiritual world. No need to roam the physical world while doing so... particularly doing so naked... particularly in an area of the physical world that features copious amounts of wildlife that is dangerous to humans. You don’t stop being human when you’re naked, or spirit-questing, in the eyes of Mother Nature.
Can you imagine what some lonely old crazy hermit must have thought when she strolled up to the wilderness cabin’s front door and asked for directions to the spirit quest? Of course, maybe she just stumbled onto some motorcycle club’s meth lab. The possibilities are endless.
Add in a contractor grade plastic trash bag and a zip lock bag of cotton balls dipped in petroleum jelly.
Added to what you have - throw in a few packs of hot cocoa - and everything would fit in her small fanny pack.
But then she would need the smarts to use everything.
The deep woods are not for the simple minded.
Poor deluded fool.
No doubt taken by a predator.
Predator scat?
“They tracked her through the canyon to a road. Could be she was abducted.”
That’s a distinct possibility. Depending on precisely where she was in the area, as the Gifford Pinchot national forest has seen a significant level of crime near the westernmost trailheads.
It’s not uncommon for someone to get abducted or show up missing around the Portland area, and then have the person’s vehicle show up abandoned over near the national forest (or the many logging roads outside of it). I suspect that forest has swallowed up a lot of corpses over the decades.
Even if she didn’t stumble across a human predator, the natural world is not forgiving of childlike naivete.
No sir-ree, drugs were not involved.
Neither was running into a group of Mexican cartel members guarding their harvest.
D.B. Cooper comes to mind.
This might give you some insight into a warming method from an earlier post:
I thought about the plastic bag just as I hit post.
Too late. If you are on a spiritual quest gotta get on while the getting on still has daylight....
Still, the plastic bag would have made a nice carrier...for more freaking bags!@!!!
Which would have made a nice barrier to the weather and ground in my little shelter that was stuffed with ground cover and the roof burdened by about three feet of more ground cover.
Oh well. Would have to make a bigger fire without it.
Exhausting...
I took my daughter and two of her friends into the deep woods one weekend.
They wanted to build a survival shelter and sleep in it. They had a tent and sleeping bags as backup.
After a few morning classes they set to work. Took them most of the afternoon - got dark - after hanging around the fire and the temp dropping to 30 deg two opted for the tent - one tried the shelter and 30 minutes later was in the tent.
I tried to pound home “The best way to survive a survival situation is not place yourself in one.”
My survival Butt Pack is about 6x5x4 with two 1/2 liter water bottles. Has everything on our two lists and a few more goodies. They were surprised at just how comfortable a camp you could set up with just that.
Either you're a professional tongue-twister writer, or you're really heavy into alliteration.
Either way, you owe me $150. I sprained my tongue trying to say it out loud and I hurt my back laughing!!
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