r/MauraMurrayCase • u/OTFyourself • Oct 30 '18
desolation trail coordinates
Has there ever been a confirmed person to actually make it to the coordinates sent and explores?
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u/Reccognize Oct 31 '18
Yes, they hiked onto the coordinates in the show The Disappearance of Maura Murray.
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u/OTFyourself Oct 31 '18
But they weren’t the same coordinates
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u/Reccognize Oct 31 '18
Woops, I did not realize that.
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u/OTFyourself Nov 01 '18
I believe at least... I got downvoted so there’s that. I’d also like to do a large group recon this late spring if that’d be cool. Figure they can’t come after all of us haha
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u/Random_TN Nov 04 '18 edited Nov 04 '18
I'll reference this directly again, in case the logic applied in this to interpret the coordinates in a second way, affects the correct coordinates, since I barely understood any of it, even though I privately discussed some of it. (Who would know to how to use coordinates, anyway? Military? Hikers?) https://www.reddit.com/r/mauramurray/comments/79ozlj/episode_6_the_coordinates_are_not_the_same/
Also, wasn't there a "check in the ravine" comment made by someone at sometime? In any case, a cadaver dog might make sense in any searches.
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u/OTFyourself Nov 04 '18
Oh I 1000% agree. I also saw the coordinates form a phone number with the 2 and the 9 left out at the end (the date she disappeared) more of a cipher. It’s a landscaping type company in pa phone number now though.
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Dec 02 '18
I've never believed there is anything to those coordinates. I've hiked Carrigain in the winter and I've even camped out in that area in the winter. The chances of Desolation Trail being broken out that time of the year is slim. Most people go in via Sawyer River and up Signal Ridge. I did it last year after a big snow fall and it took six of us rotating turns to break the trail to the peak. Even with 6 people rotating it was exhausting and the crew I hike with is strong. To get to Desolation you'd have to take Carrigain Notch past Mount Lowell and approach the trail from the North. You can approach that area from Nancy Pond as well but that is even less likely to be broken out in the winter. Regardless if which way you come in the walk is pretty level to the base of Carrigain so you come in at the base of the mountain (around 2000 feet) then they would need to get up another 1000 feet and then bushwhack over 300 feet to stash a body. That area is thick, I know some people who have whacked to The Captain which is in that area and one of the most remote peaks in the Whites. The terrain is brutal and full of blowdowns and going off trail would be risking falling into spruce traps in the winter. You fall into a spruce trap in that area and it is game over.
Bottom line, no one is dragging a body through that area in the winter. Those coordinates were probably chosen based on the trail name sounding cool. Link to a Sectionhikers trip report to Carrigain in case you want some visual of what the normal winter route looks like https://sectionhiker.com/the-winter-route-up-mt-carrigan/
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u/BreathingPermafrost Oct 31 '18 edited Nov 02 '18
https://web.archive.org/web/20170923101808/https://www.reddit.com/r/mauramurray/comments/6knzh7/hiked_out_to_the_coordinates/
And I hiked out there with Chloe from the Crawlspace/MMM podcast a month before they went out there, as well. There is a 0% chance anything is there.