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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We know there was toxic algae in the water.  We know it was incredibly hot.  We don't know to what degree either or both of those conditions contributed to their deaths.

My personal theory is that the toxic algae weakened or sickened at least one of them, which weakened the group overall.  The stronger one(s) tried to stay with and help the affected one(s) until they all suffered heat stroke.  It was a cascading failure, not a coincidental 'all at once' thing.

To those who say that's not possible because the mom was only 30 yards away on the trail: we know that people in the final stages of heat stroke get disoriented and wander.  Normally this results in them wandering in circles off their intended path.  But the terrain there wasn't really conducive to that - [b]she'd have been physically constrained to the trail[/b].  She was probably already well into heat stroke before she left the rest of the family, but she may have wandered up and down the trail for a while, repeating the same switchback, before she keeled over.[/quote]

That isn't how it works.  The delirium is why they find people NOT on the trail, in the woods, down a steep slope, far away from each other, etc.  To find 4 living beings all near each other where multiple died of heat stroke would be unusual.  30 yards is 90 feet.  Not that far away.[/quote]

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