Metasynth
Well-Known Member
If the dog didn’t die too, then this is what I would have suspected….Hopefully that is all. You read the article?
We have people die due to heat exhaustion every year in the mountains where I live. This family used to live in San Fran? Unlikely they were really acclimated to extreme temps.
the article said the temps reached 109 the day they went missing. My guess is they were out a few miles when they noticed their 1 year old was overheating, then they pushed to get back to the trailhead.
The father was found sitting with the kid, the mother found a little farther up the hill. I suspect on their journey back to the car, the parents became exhausted as well, the father first, and the mother made it a little farther up the hill before she succumbed to exhaustion.
but it’s unlikely that that would cause the dog to die too.
109 degree weather is no joke when you’re hiking in the backcountry. Perhaps when they started in the morning, it was cooler, but 109 requires special attention paid to maintaining a cooler core temp. Simply carrying enough water is NOT adequate at those temps.
It’s unclear in the article whether they had their phones on them or not. Maybe they didn’t have service. But whatever happened, it’s always tragic when something like this happens