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Sunset over Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday
An update to Monday’s post, it looks like Troy Green, the man missing in Rocky Mountain National Park has been found.
The body was found yesterday by snowshoers in an area that “…had been searched several times by ground personnel, a dog team, and helicopter over-flights.” You may ask yourself how a couple of people simply out on a hike could find Troy when a large, coordinated mult-day search involving people, dogs and helicopters could not.
Well, the reasons are complex and this kind of thing happens more often than you would think. A major contributing factor is the vast size of the wilderness and all the obstructions it contains: A typical search might take place in a hundred square mile area of forests, boulders, cliffs and streams. If the subject is not in a high probability area such as a the trail or summit, and is unresponsive, it can be like searching for a needle in a haystack.
I write extensively about the reasons someone can seemingly vanish off the face of the earth in Colorado 14er Disasters, including the details of another extensive search in RMNP for a missing ranger named Jeff Christensen in 2005.
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