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How 1600 People Went Missing from Public Land


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July 23, 2015 was the eve of Joseph Lloyd Keller's 19th birthday. The Cleveland, Tennessee, native had been spending the summer between his freshman and sophomore years at Cleveland State Community College on a western road trip with buddies Collin Gwaltney and Christian Fetzner in Gwaltney’s old Subaru. The boys had seen Las Vegas, San Francisco, and the Grand Canyon before heading to Joe’s aunt and uncle’s dude ranch, the Rainbow Trout Ranch, in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado. 

The ranch is in Conejos County, which is bigger than Rhode Island, with 8,000 residents and no stoplights. Sheep graze in the sunshine; potatoes and barley are grown here and trucked north to Denver. Three new marijuana dispensaries in the tiny town of Antonito lure New Mexicans across the nearby state line. 

Conejos—Spanish for “rabbits”—is one of the poorest counties in Colorado. It’s also a helluva place to get lost. While its eastern plains stretch across the agricultural San Luis Valley, its western third rises into the 1.8-million-acre Rio Grande National Forest, which sprawls over parts of nine counties. Go missing out here and your fate relies, in no small part, on which of those nine counties you were in when you disappeared. 

https://www.outsideonline.com/2164446/leave-no-trace?page=all

 

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Well the whole title didn't fit, and I can't help what the author titled his article with. I know the 1600 number is arguable, but there have been a lot of people that have gone missing on public land.

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People do tend to forget that nature in their backyard is a bit different than nature outside the city limits.

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37 minutes ago, jarjarbinks said:

Missing 9 11

411

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13 hours ago, Eldorado said:

Misleading title, is it not?

You took the words right out of my mouth, Eldorado.

 

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"How 6 Missing from Public Land Are Noted, because the 160,000 and Countless Others Were Never Heard of Ever Again" ?!?!!?!?!?

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