Boot Found Six Feet Up, No Prints Below: The Gina Powell Case
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Boot Found Six Feet Up, No Prints Below: The Gina Powell Case
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A lone women's size seven boot laced tight hung six feet up in a dead lodgepole pine with no footprints beneath it - and the owner, Gina Powell, had been missing eleven days. The radio she carried into the forest was functionally dead from corroded batteries, her partners were searching the wrong drainage, and three preventable errors funneled her toward a blowdown-choked gully; how did a boot end up six feet above ground with no explanation?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events, equipment failures, and search decisions that framed the eleven-day delay before Gina was found, and ask whether those three early mistakes are the only way to understand what happened. What exactly went wrong that morning and how does the boot change the story?
Person: Gina Powell
Date: October 3, 2019
Location: Soldier Draw, Kaibab-Brecken National Forest
Status: Missing for eleven days before discovery
Search teams: 32 volunteers and 2 dog teams
- Boot: women's size 7, left-footbed molded, laced tight, no mud on the leather, no weathering on the laces.
- Radio: handheld unit with two AA batteries, terminals showed long-term corrosion and the unit was functionally dead on the morning of the hunt.
- Party split: agreed split point at Ponderosa bench ~1.25 miles from truck; Tom Breck moved the designated meeting location further north without informing anyone.
- Timeline: Gina was alone in the forest for approximately 14 hours before search-and-rescue was activated at 20:17 that evening.
- Search launch: October 4 at first light with 32 volunteers, 2 dog teams, coordinator James Clark; bloodhound Cass tracked scent from the Ponderosa bench and stopped at limestone shelf around 6,500 ft.
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