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They Found Her Logbook First - Nine Miles Crawling, Unexplained Tracks
12 Oct 2026 · 17 min
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They Found Her Logbook First - Nine Miles Crawling, Unexplained Tracks A weathered logbook found inside a remote Forest Service station contained an entry dated August 14 describing a young woman in a red rain shell heading toward Sentinel Notch-an entry read aloud by a volunteer on August 22 that matched the missing hiker the team had been searching for four days. How did that logbook sit unread at a station while a woman crawled nine miles through rugged terrain with a fractured fibula and severe dehydration, and why did tracking dogs stop inexplicably at a granite ford? In this episode,…
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