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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have a photo of the map trail, detailing where the car was and where the bodies were found? I'm having trouble understanding an 8+ mile hike. Was it a clearly defined loop trail that circled back to their car or was it a maze of trails and it's possible they got lost and took a much longer path than they thought, putting them further and further away from their car?[/quote]

I know I read they were only 1.5 miles from their car. Had they completed 6.5 miles before they passed away? Do we know the answer?

On another note, if the mom was leaving to go get help, would she really leave the baby in the carrier with the husband, sitting in the blazing sun? I would think she would have taken the baby with her.[/quote]

There was a map posted in the San Francisco Chronicle - the article requires a newspaper subscription to view, but let's see if this works:
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/21/43/10/21377542/6/400x0.jpg

It's a reporter's interpretation of law enforcement's description - the map wasn't created by LE directly, so there may be some room for error in translation.  But the big points are:
1. The car was parked near the intersection of trailheads to both ends of the loop
2. LE stated that they believed the family was at the end of an 8.5-mile loop, and they were found approximately 1.5 miles from their car
3. When they first found the car, it sounds like the search party started out onto the Hites Cove Trail section, where they found footprints & dog prints consistent with a family of that size.  But they did not locate the family.  The next day, they sent a search party down the trail the other direction (Savage Lundy), where they found the bodies 1.5 miles down.

In other words - this appears to be what LE THINKS they hiked, but nobody really knows for sure yet.  I hope there is data on his phone that will tell.[/quote]

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