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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The saddest part of this whole thing is the likelihood that the order of death was probably dad, mom, baby, dog.

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No, I think the baby died first, the parents were distraught and couldn't function. Or dad felt very sick, sat down with baby to rest and died. Either way distraught mom eventually tried to go for help but didn't make it.[/quote]

I would think the baby died first as well. Babies do not have the same ability to regulate temperature as adults and I imagine being inside a carrier would make it even hotter.[/quote]

While true, the baby was not expending any energy.  I really am guessing that the dad was the first one to struggle and he was forced to sit down, but it had already passed the point of no return.  The mom was already struggling but was mobile, so she was going to get help.  She then collapsed up the trail.  I assume she would have only left if she thought that the dad was still capable of taking care of the baby, so he was probably still conscious when she left.  All conjecture, of course.

I was skeptical of hyperthermia just because it was so strange that they still had water (now we know they didn't) and that heat affects people much differently.  But I guess the obvious answer was right.  The terrain there is brutal and it was a fatal miscalculation on their part.[/quote]

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