Hunt for for Death Valley Germans

[clearconscience]

this is a long read, but addicting. It's a detailed account from a SAR guy about searching for a lost family in Death Valley.

The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans

There's a few take aways I got from this.
The tenacity of volunteers to solve a riddle is really interesting and a good perspective.

And towards the end the reality of what that family went through hit me like a truck.
Thinking about what that situation must have been like for a father or mother to try to save your family, your children. Maybe coming to the realization your going to die, your children are going to die, and there's nothing you can do.
Having young children myself, that senario hit me hard.

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[shooter777]

Having spent a good amount of time in Death Valley and surrounding desert(s) I can say that anybody that travels there without at least a gallon of water is wrong(hell, travel anywhere). I remember an late 90's trip to Death Valley with an old girlfriend and there were a ton of Germans on motorcycles touring there.

 

[jvp]

i thought this was going to be about the escaped POW from ww2 that wandered the arizona desert. that is a good read also