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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Removing that bit of the timeline makes me lean more towards fa.  If they went down SL trail and only got 1.5 miles from car/trailhead it seems they didn't get to the river for the toxic algae or hike long enough for multiple cases of heat stroke.[/quote]

Pretty sure police allegedly[b] found their prints on the other side of the trail[/b], implying they were at the end of the loop (traveling clockwise), not the beginning (counter-clockwise). So they had travelled 7 or so miles in the blazing sun.[/quote]

One last thing about intending to do a 8+ miles vs. a shorter hike.  They may have intended to just go 3 miles.  They started down the easier side, but then turned back and went down the Savage Lundy trail.  Maybe they decided the views (something?) may be better on Savage Lundy.  They went back to the parking lot and then went down the steeper SL trail meaning to only go a short distance.  However, even that short distance proved to be be very strenuous on the way back (uphill) and they also lost time from going the other way. LE found their truck at night and may have checked out the easier Hiites Cove Trail first (assuming that a family might do this) and found the footprints and immediately started down that road for the search (I do understand that footprints coming back should have been there, but who knows how thorough they were that late at night--just glad to follow footprints that matched the family profile).  When they saw no bodies for some time, they called in another team to search the other end of the trail.   They do not mention if there were footprints at both heads of the trail and have not mentioned the longer hike recently.  Anyways, some people are assuming long hike based on footprints on one side and bodies being found on the other side.[/quote]

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