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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have read a lot about this case and it seems to me that a bunch of circumstances have come together with tragic results.

Inexperienced hikers who overestimated their abilities and perhaps did not plan properly, brutal temperatures, perhaps something unforeseen like taking the wrong trail or the dog not being able to walk and needing to carried. And from then on things went south rapidly as often happens in similar cases.

The trail being closed certainly complicates things but it may really just be to keep people from snooping around and possibly getting into trouble themselves.[/quote]

The sheriff said that the family was well prepared for the hike.  You just can't accept that something happened to this family, that they weren't bad parents making bad decisions that you disapprove of.[/quote]

3L (that's roughly 3 quarts for the metric impaired) of water. That's not enough for the two adults and a dog. Dogs are terribly inefficient at drinking. [/quote]

The sheriff knows what the family had with them.  That hasn't been disclosed.  There's a lot of information that the public doesn't have.  It's something to keep in mind while speculating.[/quote]

Right!  I keep hearing that they only had 3L of water.  Does anyone have an actual cite for that?  All I've heard - from the early articles - were that the family was 'well prepared' for the hike, and that they had some water left in the bladder style water container.  The latter was mentioned in the context of sending that remaining water out for testing.

People are ASSUMING that 1) the bladder is a 3L camelback, and 2) that there was no other water brought along.  I've never seen a statement from law enforcement that the bladder was their ONLY water - just that they had one, and it had some water left in it.  There may have been several other large containers, probably empty (because they drank it all).  We truly don't know what they had with them.[/quote]

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