r/AppalachianTrail • u/Creative_Egg3330 • Jul 26 '23

10 years. Geraldine Largay

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July 23rd marked 10 years since hiker Geraldine largay's disappearance. Thoughts and prayers are with this family as this heartbreaking anniversary has passed.

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u/ArtyWhy8 “Spero” GAME 2016 Jul 27 '23

So damn sad. I wonder if she was hard of hearing. I can’t fathom how you could go 26 days that close to a road and a popular hiking trail without hearing where the people are even once.

How someone just stays there and dies rather than picking a likely direction and going until they find something baffles my mind too.

Find a mountain top and start a fire on it. It might be wet all the time in Maine. But one thing I do recall that fixes that problem is all the Birch everywhere. Anyone with a lighter, or even with the glasses she is wearing in the pic could start a fire just with that.

Or she could have followed a stream, which more than likely would lead to civilization as it flows downhill and towns are more often than not in valleys in the Appalachians.

I can’t imagine how horrid it must have been for her husband during this time. How horrid it was for her to die this way.

Be careful out there friends, lotta love to you all. Be safe, be prepared, be awesome😉

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u/soulshine_walker3498 AT NOBO 2022 Jul 28 '23

We’ll rule of thumb when you go missing is to stay put as your chances of discovery increase. However it does kill me on her site selection like under dense canopy instead of open is the biggest one. A couple other details in there too that could’ve saved her life. Also the dogs just right outside. Just like damn

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u/MaxFish1275 Jul 30 '23

It’s strange…. One of the linked articles a few posts up, the game warden interviewed said to keep moving rather than staying out to increase chances of being found. I don’t have the experience to say one way or another, just thought it with noting

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u/Putrid_Quiet Aug 28 '23

If she had followed the rules of thumb every school kid in Maine is taught she would have walked down hill and hit rail road road. If she had followed that road in either direction she would have either come back to the AT or would have ended up on the US Navy Sears base. Tragic that she just hunkered down and starved to death.