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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand how you get lost and can't get found on the Appalachian trail.  It's not that wide.  If you walked in a straight line for days, you'd have to hit something.  Right?[/quote]

When you have no bearings and are lost in thick woods of Maine, how do you "walk in straight line"?[/quote]

You use your compass and items in your environment to keep your bearings. If you don't have a compass, map and basic navigational skills you probably shouldn't be in the backcountry, and definitely shouldn't be out there solo.

I am a hiker and a member of a number of online hiking groups so have seem a lot of discussion about this, both when she first went missing and now.

From that it seems like there were a number of reasons why this *particular* hiker probably shouldn't have been hiking solo at the time she got lost, and some prior decisions that turned out to be tragic (she had been carrying a SPOT for most of her trek and at some point not too long before this had left it in her resupply box for her husband to pickup so didn't have it when this happened.)

But absolutely tragic to think of her alone out there for so long and dying alone.  My heart breaks for her and all her family, and all the searchers who got so close and stopped searching before she died - I am sure the SAR folks are feeling some awful 'what ifs' and that's a hard burden. [/quote]

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