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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do most posters here hike? It seems like they don't. It is not uncommon at all for one person to go ahead for 10, 100, 500 feet. [b]Especially mom, if dad is carrying the heavier load (baby).[/b] I go out ahead all the time, stop, take a drink, wait. Sometimes my husband and kid go ahead, and when they don't see me they wait for 30 seconds, then see me again, and I catch up. People don't hike hip to hip or hand in hand in these settings like they might on the Billy Goat Trail or Old Rag. And that's not unsafe, it's just because there is more space to navigate.

It's a gas cloud. Maybe they were all together and mom tried to outrun it. Maybe they were a bit apart and it got them before they could process it. Nothing else is going to kill them and the dog and the baby and leave no signs of distress or struggle or movement.

Ya'll are making up Dateline stories because you love a mystery, or because you are afraid a gas cloud is too scary and will come get you. But it's a gas cloud.

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Except it sounds like she was behind (or disoriented) not ahead. The sheriff discovered their car 1.5 miles away and back-tracked up the path to find them. He found the husband and the baby first. Then the mother further up the trail - presumably farther away from the car.

As for the gas cloud - out of all the theories it makes the most sense. Without access to the toxin screens or geographic layout.

Now I'm curious if they phenomenon can be sourced and recorded for future scientific research.[/quote]
All the reports are clear that the mom was farther up the incline than the rest, closer to their truck. [/quote]

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