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How did they leave a car at a campsite for months and not have any kind of search and rescue triggered?
My buddy got lost on a trail once and had to do an shitty night out in the woods, the next morning there were forest service personnel out looking for him because they spotted his car parked overnight with no camp permit posted.
I thought this was standard practice at every national and state park. An unattended vehicle is seen as a sure sign that someone is in trouble. I guess I’m never going hiking in Colorado, cause if I get in trouble the CO forest personnel are apparently just going to leave me for dead.
Yeah, that's insane. Also, now I know where to go if I ever need to store my vehicle for extended periods of time!
From what I've read they weren't in a sanctioned Park, this was more of a back country area tucked away in the woods.
You're right... National Forest... Not a park
The forest service is still supposed to check for abandoned vehicles overnight, as is the best way to check for lost hikers
It wasn't a park, so unless someone filed a missing person report the car itself wouldn't necessarily trigger anything since people abandon all kinds of crazy shit on national forests.
Why didn't they just get back in the car and head back to civilization?
Probably froze overnight while sleeping. Between hypothermia and malnutrition, sometimes people just never wake up.
The roads would have gotten buried with snow. One snowy day would do it. By the time they realized it, too late. Those forest service roads are not plowed.
They must have made some sort of effort to hide the vehicle, or park it somewhere it wouldn't be questioned for some time. If the goal is to get away from people, you don't want your vehicle to cause someone to come looking for you.