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re: Minnesota hiker vanishes in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. Update: Found deceased.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 6:54 am to The Third Leg
Posted on 8/8/25 at 6:54 am to The Third Leg
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shite can happen in any setting. Take a gun.
And a sat phone.
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Posted on 8/8/25 at 7:01 am to deltaland
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Should always have an inreach or personal locator beacon for adventures like these. This. Or satellite phone
That’s what I was coming here to ask. You would think that would be part of the story.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 7:05 am to Lexis Dad
Probably just tired of his wife's shite.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 7:14 am to Pvt Hudson
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Okay - I’ll go with “disoriented, got lost, found alive”
10 days later for a planned 3 day excursion?
Not likely. Sadly, his kids will live through the trauma of their father never coming home.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 7:16 am to Midget Death Squad
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While I agree, I also think you need to be smarter about the hikes you take. This sounds like an extreme hike, so it is a bit selfish in that regard.
Long hard effort at high altitude coming from sea level is risky.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 7:26 am to crazyLSUstudent
These are the mountains in the Longmire books
Posted on 8/8/25 at 7:43 am to The Third Leg
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Hiking alone is not some crazy dangerous exercise.
It is when it involvs summitting a 13k ft mountain.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 7:57 am to Lexis Dad
I love the outdoors. Hunting fishing hiking camping
I love hunting alone walking the swamp here in louisiana. Helps clear my mind. Very relaxing.
Hiking the smokies and the Rockies is an also very relaxing but my ole lady and I do this. She as well loves camping backpacking hiking.
Driving in down secluded dirt roads over an hour then hiking on past where you park for another 5 or 10 miles really puts you way out from help.
Carrying a gps InReach emergency communicator is important. Also carry my gun. As relaxing as it is out there, one simple mishap can be what at home a no big deal, a huge deal that far out.
Turning an ankle on a fall, bad cut, or even getting sick for some in known reason could put you in a bad spot.
Long story but we were very close to a bad situation once with ten miles to hike out. Wound up in hospital once we got back to main campground.
Although you will run into someone eventually on most trails, this is not always the case. Being alone this far from help can be dangerous.
I love hunting alone walking the swamp here in louisiana. Helps clear my mind. Very relaxing.
Hiking the smokies and the Rockies is an also very relaxing but my ole lady and I do this. She as well loves camping backpacking hiking.
Driving in down secluded dirt roads over an hour then hiking on past where you park for another 5 or 10 miles really puts you way out from help.
Carrying a gps InReach emergency communicator is important. Also carry my gun. As relaxing as it is out there, one simple mishap can be what at home a no big deal, a huge deal that far out.
Turning an ankle on a fall, bad cut, or even getting sick for some in known reason could put you in a bad spot.
Long story but we were very close to a bad situation once with ten miles to hike out. Wound up in hospital once we got back to main campground.
Although you will run into someone eventually on most trails, this is not always the case. Being alone this far from help can be dangerous.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:30 am to Oates Mustache
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I'm sorry, but hiking solo when you have a family, especially young kids at home, is selfish and stupid
I agree with you and I love to hike, but you should always do it tandem. And never hike from dusk on. That's what this situation sounds like. He made it to the summit, it was pushing dusk, he was obviously exhausted, and he turned back to start going down and he obviously went over the side of the mountain or lost the trail and became grizzly meat.
This post was edited on 8/8/25 at 8:31 am
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:34 am to UptownJoeBrown
C'mon, it's not like he was making flying squirrel videos.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:38 am to Lexis Dad
Kind of shocked they haven’t found him yet. I would have assumed he fell off the ridge while navigating the boulder field directly before/after the summit. Maybe he made it down though.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:38 am to crazyLSUstudent
Joe Pickett will find him
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:44 am to UptownJoeBrown
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Dumbass doing this alone with 2 young children. Single and no children? Go knife fight sharks for all I care.
I almost drowned packrafting a class iv in Montana when our first son was under a year old. That was a huge wake-up call about risks with a family. Now I just spend every waking hour trying to keep our boys from killing themselves and others.
This post was edited on 8/8/25 at 8:45 am
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:46 am to Cosmo
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Joe Pickett will find him
Very first thought. I didn’t like CJ Box much at first, and the TV adaptations are truly terrible. But I got hooked on Joe Pickett. I have a couple left to finish the series.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:52 am to Crappieman
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The Bighorns don't have grizzlies
There are confirmed sightings of grizzlies in the Bighorns.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:57 am to Lexis Dad
There is a New Jersey man missing in the Grand Canyon area, too.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 9:04 am to Lexis Dad
Didn’t read the thread, but any chance this guy may have chosen to go missing?
This would be one way to throw your wife off the trail
This would be one way to throw your wife off the trail
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Grant Gardner made contact with his wife on July 29 "letting her know he’d made it to the summit" of the 13,000-foot Cloud Peak, but has not been heard from since,
Posted on 8/8/25 at 9:05 am to Funky Tide 8
Its possible but there isnt a known poulation like in NW Wyoming around Cody.
There are wolves though.
There are wolves though.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 9:06 am to LegendInMyMind
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There is a New Jersey man missing in the Grand Canyon area, too.
I read a book called Death in the Grand Canyon earlier this year, and its amazing how many people hike down into the Grand Canyon in the summer woefully unprepared, and end up dying. Great book btw, highly recommend.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 9:07 am to UptownJoeBrown
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Dumbass doing this alone with 2 young children. Single and no children? Go knife fight sharks for all I care.
Agreed. Like riding motorcycles.
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