[CapandBall]

In the SNP the restriction for backcountry camping are strict. Specifically, unless in a designated area, you must camp at least 50 yards from any trail or water, and 100 yards from any road, and not be visible from the trail or road. Park police go out looking for people camping and breaking these rules, and handing out $$$ tickets for violations.

You must stealth camp or you will be ticketed.

[crystalk]

You are more Making than Disproving my point, for the official story would have it that their tent in violation of these rules, was right on top of the Skyland Lodge...and never found, never ticketed, even with dead bodies in it, for all of those days...

What is the chance of that? Why so many posts which pick at oversights or lapses of memory on the part of this poor old human being, but which do not invalidate my thesis...

... and none that would (if valid) actually prove they (1) ever camped; (2) were still camping after 5/24; (3) were lying dead for 5 or 6 days very near the Skyland Lodge, and (says the hook article) within sight of a dirt road and a horse trail?

The fact is, their friends strongly expected them the evening of 5/24 in Baltimore; the father of one was completely panicked by the morning of 5/27; and yet the official story is they were camped practically in the yard of the Skyland Lodge, but never made a phone call, never bought a meal or supplies, never appeared in public even on the trails or roads anywhere near there, for a week or so. Gimme a break.