Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:28:20 -0800
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: How not to explore the back roads of Death Valley
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a large % of people now a days have no clue about Non-Urban situations.
They have simply not experienced anything other than living surrounded by
other people with laws to protect them from themselves and others. It's
unthinkable for these folks that something (Nature? Reality? Physics?) could
exist and perhaps not be illegal. It never even occurs to many that they
could die, without anyone else being responsible. It's incomprehensible to
some that situations might exist without any 'label' warning you off., or
listing of 'possible side effects'.
Darwin...It may seem harsh, but sometimes clueless people die because
they didn't bother to learn about something so simple as "nature"..Driving
around Death Valley mid summer in a rented van on backcountry roads IS
pretty stupid..
Don Hanson
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Jeffrey Vickers <jeff@vickersdesign.com>wrote:
> Maybe rental cars should come with "dirt road detectors" that shut the
> vehicles off after 5 miles on non-pavement. Nothing else seems to
> deter some knuckleheads from driving their rental cars out Jeff
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:21:44 -0800
>>
>> From: Bernie <berniej@GMAIL.COM>
>> Subject: How not to explore the back roads of Death Valley
>>
>>
>> In 1996 a family of four from Dresden, Germany went missing in Death
>> Valley.
>> With very little water and food in their rented Pymouth Voyager Van,
>> they
>> tried
>> driving down a road marked clearly as a " 4 wheel drive only" that
>> would
>> take them over the Panamints and through
>> Megel pass. Two children were with the couple, they were age 4 and 10.
>> This was in summer of 1996 with summer temperatures ranging from
>> 120 to 124 degress.
>> They were never seen again.
>> An extensive search coordinated by the Nevada Division of
>> Investigation had
>> turned up no hints as to the travelers' whereabouts since their car
>> was
>> found abandoned with three flat tires in a ravine off Anvil Spring
>> Canyon in
>> late October.
>> In November and December 2009 bones have been found in Goler Wash
>> which
>> would seem to
>> solve the mystery.
>> It doesn't take too many poor decisions in that kind of climate
>> before the
>> desert exacts
>> a tragic price.
>>
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