The twenty‑fourteen map in her pack misdirected the search
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The twenty‑fourteen map in her pack misdirected the search
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The twenty‑fourteen map in her pack misdirected the search
In this episode, we follow the search for Rebecca Stewart after she leaves a trailhead and vanishes for eighty hours, while puzzling details about a map and a shelter log complicate the timeline. What did the map beside her pack-and the cabin entry-reveal about where she had actually been?
Person: Rebecca Stewart
Location: Greer Bald wilderness; Ardmore Falls; Denny's shelter
Date: August 8-12
Status: Missing for eighty hours; found alive but disoriented
Coordinator: Ranger Roy Bishop
- Rebecca tracked the same Greer Bald quadrangle map for eight years, annotated in pencil and used every week at her map-reading club.
- The cabin log at Denny's shelter recorded a signed entry for "R. Stewart, Ardmore Falls - orange fleece, gray braid, topo map" on the morning of August 9.
- Search teams followed Stewart's planned loop from the Spur Nine connector through Harlan Notch along Greer Bald ridgeline, guided by her filed itinerary.
- A volunteer found Stewart's red internal-frame pack thirty feet into brush south of the Spur Nine junction, placed upright between laurel stems as if set down deliberately.
- A folded twenty-fourteen edition topo map, clean of her usual pencil annotations but bearing her name and Ardmore Falls, was tucked in the pack-an edition she had never owned.
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