Seed, hand tools, and good neighbors.
Some of the neighbors have the ammunition.
(But in reality: no matter how prepared you are, or how you’ve prepared: you’d also need a large share of luck.)
the gods ate chocolate and pooped gold.
in 2000 i did give out champagne with gold suspended in it, and champagne glasses as christmas gifts. never thought of bullets…
Before they left, Jara told The Washington Post that the family “watched some YouTube videos” about “how to live off the grid” but had “no experience.”
“YouTube and the internet is not enough,” Jara added while speaking with The Los Angeles Times.
Not enough? The did their research!
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I read that they were an hour by car from the town of Gunnison. And their car was right there. At some point they should have just called it quits. It’s really a sad story.
Yes, I think maybe with at least one of them mental health may have been more of a factor than stupidity. The other two ugh just got pulled in with her.
Yes, paranoia seems likely.
Trevala Jara, Rebecca and Christine’s stepsister, told The Washington Post that the decision to “live off the grid” was made as Rebecca’s fears about the world intensified.
I just feel really bad about the teenager who was a victim of his mom’s illness.
The story said it was a campground. If this was an actual National Forest campground I would say something else went wrong as well. Unless they sneaked in. But if their car was there. How would a ranger not be concerned?
I never camped in campgrounds, but I believe there is a limit to how long you can stay.
I suspect bad reporting, and perhaps they got buried in so much snow, the car was useless.
An hour from Gunnison. One of the coldest places in Colorado.
Looks like they were found near the campground but not at the site established by the Forestry Service.
The reports say a hiker found them about 1000ft away from the campsite, which was also well off the dirt service trails. That doesn’t sound like a lot but nearly a quarter mile out in the wild can be very isolated. Reports also say it’s not an official site but that people do often camp there, but I imagine that doesn’t happen much in the winter for very obvious reasons.
And the car wasn’t at one of the (quasi) maintained campsites but near the head of a hiking trail. Combined with a lack of missing persons reports, that might mean a hiker got in trouble, but I’d search on or near the trails, then. Not off in the woods looking for a campsite.
Right. “Rabbit Starvation” (also known as protein poisoning and fat starvation, among other things) is one of the conditions believed to have played a big part in the death of Christopher McCandless.
I read that book, Into the Wild! Which is how I learned about it. It was a good book.
These people were relying on canned and packaged foods, so rabbit starvation was not the problem.
I used to do some serious camping, and even went on winter survival hikes where we’d built our own shelters out of sticks and snow, but I gave it up in middle age.
Just now I realized that it may have been when the “Reward vs Possible Risks” part of my brain took over from the “That’d be so cool!” part.
Stories like this just reinforce the fact that I can see plenty of nature on a nice walk (with a coffee place at the end of it), and be back in my own bed that night.
Done a bit of winter camping. Usually x-country ski in.
Once, it turned into winter camping (unexpected storm) and we had driven in an FJ-40. A good 4x4. We left in the middle of the night for fear of getting trapped there.
There’s a lot of competition for the most dumb-assed conspiracy theory. This one probably makes the current top-ten list.
A photograph of Obama playing golf with tape on his fingers (or, variously, a bandage) has surfaced, and it indicates nefarious doings. No, really.
So, Obama murdered his chef, as proved by the tape.
If the photo was actually taken at the time of the disappearance, I’d put two and two together and figure that without his chef, Obama was forced to slice onions for dinner and accidentally cut himself. But wouldn’t the Secret Service be in charge of that?
Damn, now I’m going to worry about this the whole rest of the weekend. 
That’s not his ring.
And, let’s be honest, I know lighting and cameras and screens could be affecting this, but I’m pretty sure that hand is attached to a white person.
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Oddly enough, the first site I saw when I went looking for this was debunking a conspiracy theory that his ring has arabic on it. I don’t recall hearing that one, but it appears it was a thing a a while back.
Gutfeld thinks it’s okay for Trump to destroy evidence.
“What are they about, surveillance cameras? What’s wrong with that?” he said. “What’s wrong with — like, are those yours? Why can’t you clear them? I don’t understand that.”
The responses to that were pretty hilarious. Check this one quoted in the link:
“Greg doesn’t know how evidence works,” one user wrote. “Like if they’re YOUR clothes with blood on them, and there’s an open investigation into your missing spouse, why can’t YOU throw YOUR own clothes away? What a witch hunt.”
You present that name as if you think we all watch Fox enough to know who it is, but the first thing I thought was, what’s a Gutfeld? For those who don’t know, Gutfeld is a program host on Fox.
I mostly remember him as the host of the show Red Eye. The bits of the show I caught were extremely boring.