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Most incoherent missing hiker story ever published in The De

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:09 pm
by Florian
Saw this on the CV hikers blog ...

http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/2012112 ... ar-tramway

Hiker found near tramway in the headline, yet also found at the Black Mtn campground north (?) of Palm Springs, and then he was "escorted" back to the C2C trailhead. Wow.

-Florian

PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:05 pm
by Sally
Oh my goodness, that's the craziest reporting I've seen yet! Nearly fell off my chair laughing!

PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:42 am
by Hikin_Jim
It's simple:
He went up the Wellmans Slide Trail to Little Round Marion, cut across to the Seven Strawberries Trail and then came down Fuller Caramba -- which really pissed off the DWA since that's clearly on their land. Got it? :wink:

HJ

PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:07 pm
by cynthia23
Yeah, I saw that too. Incredibly annoying. The DS consistently screws up their reportage of hiking stories. How hard can it be to get a freaking map of Mt. San Jacinto State Park?

PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:51 pm
by neverwashasbeen
Seems Desert Sun was actually no worse than normal. The story I've heard is that the hiker in question started at the Ramon trailhead, did a C2C and then made a wrong turn heading down from the peak and ended up on Fuller Ridge.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:26 pm
by Hikin_Jim
Ah. I see what you're saying. I half wondered if that had happened although how the heck someone could get all the way over to the Black Mountain area and not realize that they were seriously off track is beyond me.

The headline is in total conflict (in hiker miles) with where he was found though:
Palm Springs hiker found near tramway
Maybe to a newspaper editor Black Mtn is near the tram?

HJ

PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 6:34 pm
by Florian
neverwashasbeen wrote:The story I've heard is that the hiker in question started at the Ramon trailhead, did a C2C and then made a wrong turn heading down from the peak and ended up on Fuller Ridge.


Thanks for the update. Seems the story wasn't as crazy as i first thought.

-Florian