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Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
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Wed Oct 16, 2019 10:04 pm
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Ski ><((((°>
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Wed Oct 16, 2019 11:36 pm
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what are the odds it's either D.B. Cooper or Jimmy Hoffa?
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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Bootpathguy Member
Joined: 18 Jun 2015 Posts: 1787 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
Experience is what'cha get, when you get what'cha don't want
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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
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Fri Oct 18, 2019 10:08 pm
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Given how the media very often gets key facts wrong or omits important details, I wonder about this story. If the person really was laid to rest, arms folded over chest and covered with rocks then that's definitely a burial. I wonder if we'll ever hear the full story on this?
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Randito Snarky Member
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Sat Oct 19, 2019 10:33 am
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Very interesting. Based on what was reported that the remains consisted of bones, a leather belt and leather shoes, it would seem the remains had been there a very long time. A body buried in rocks at high altitude is going to decompose pretty slowly. It's also likely in my estimation that someone dying in the mountains anytime within the last 3+ decades would be wearing at least some synthetic garments which I would expect to have not decomposed.
So it seems they've been there a long long time, unless they were buried naked. But then why the shoes and belt?
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ranger rock One of the boys
Joined: 14 Dec 2011 Posts: 2550 | TRs | Pics
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Could it be Edward Abbey?
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7692 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
ranger rock wrote: | Could it be Edward Abbey? |
Hmm. Interesting, but I would assume he was laid to rest in canyon country in Utah or Arizona. His spiritual home. Can't really see the Sierras being the final resting place chosen for him.
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Randito Snarky Member
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Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:47 pm
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Wikipedia wrote: | Abbey's body was buried in the Cabeza Prieta Desert in Pima County, Arizona, where "you'll never find it." The friends carved a marker on a nearby stone, reading:[26][27]
EDWARD
PAUL
ABBEY
1927—1989
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zephyr aka friendly hiker
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Mon Oct 21, 2019 3:24 pm
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There's actually a great book about this: Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave by Sean Prentiss, University of New Mexico Press, 240 pages. $21.95. 'A good article here in Seven Days, a Vermont news site.
Excerpt: What happened, as the author recounts engagingly, was that he tracked down several of Abbey's former cohorts — all of them cantankerous, some of them initially deeply distrustful of Prentiss' intentions. The Vermonter's conversations with the keepers of Abbey's last secret are highlights of the book, as they vividly and often humorously explore the conflict between Abbey the Radical Environmentalist and Abbey the Fallible Man.
Prentiss infuses his writing with self-reflection. Finding Abbey is less about the author's search for the grave than it is about his coming to terms with his own understanding of the natural world. Even more compellingly, the book is about Prentiss' struggles to reconcile the stark contradictions that render Abbey at once fascinating, admirable and a bit loathsome.
They have this book at the Seattle Public Library. I enjoyed reading it. ~z
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
I know Hunter Thompson’s ashes we loaded into a howitzer shell and fired above the desert by Johnny Depp and others.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Kascadia Member
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Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:04 pm
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It is as though I had read a divine text, written into the world itself, not with letters but rather with essential objects, saying:
Man, stretch thy reason hither, so thou mayest comprehend these things. Johannes Kepler
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Bernardo Member
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Bernardo
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Thu Oct 24, 2019 7:14 pm
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Interesting. Events have repercussions for years and years.
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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
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Thu Oct 24, 2019 11:17 pm
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Wow.
Will be interesting to see if it's really him.
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Randito Snarky Member
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Sat Jan 04, 2020 2:05 pm
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Bernardo Member
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Sat Jan 04, 2020 10:19 pm
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A story worth reading. Thanks.
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