A_Common_Loon t1_jaalhod wrote on February 28, 2023 at 1:21 AM

Reply to comment by gretchens in Missing Mainers found safe! by grc207

News Center Maine interviewed the warden who found them. It’s incredible! https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/topsham-missing-women-maine-warden-service-springfield-lincoln-hancock-county/97-10ea20d4-0ead-41c7-ae4a-3dfbfccbaef8

gretchens t1_jaao5uf wrote on February 28, 2023 at 1:41 AM

Ah yea, of course it was a guy who was a classmate of my sister back in the day. Good on him, though. This is the one time they’d have been found more quickly if they’d stayed on the ITS!

A_Common_Loon t1_jacmhzi wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:01 PM

I always say Maine is a small town. LOL

I really wonder how they ended up where they did. The warden said they had been on an ITS trail but the trail made a 90 degree turn and kept going on a logging trail, and they were found on the logging trail. I'm not familiar with that area at all, but I'm guessing it's hard to tell what road is what under the snow?

gretchens t1_jaco7k5 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:14 PM

Yeah, and 'logging road' can be a relatively smooth, wide gravel road or it can be two ruts in the dirt, it is so varied. GPS used to send people to my hometown on the logging roads and they'd show up in rental cars terrified they just voided the contract by the route they took! ITS and some logging roads under snow would look the same, actally ITS might look MORE like a road because they are maintained.

I'm glad they at least had the sense to NOT leave the car, that would have been an absolute death sentence.

A_Common_Loon t1_jactlr6 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:53 PM

I kept thinking about James Kim, who was stranded with his family and died after he left their car. I was living in Northern California when this happened and it has stuck with me. Never leave the car!

https://www.nrtoday.com/ten-years-ago-kim-family-endured-wilderness-tragedy/article_fb3a1215-29ee-5243-aa96-94d6d568d7d7.html

gretchens t1_jae3i44 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 7:48 PM

Yep, the Kim family was almost the inverse of this situation - all of the technology got them INTO the problem. I can't believe it was that long ago! I remember that one well bc my daughter was the same age as the baby, and it was too easy to imagine.