Solo Hiker Vanished On The Appalachian Trail | Search Dogs Walked Over Her For 90 Days!
At 8:14 a.m. on July 9th, a 26-year-old woman hiking alone with a loyal online audience posted a photo from the Palmerton trailhead in Pennsylvania. At 8:47 her phone pinged a cell tower two ridges north. Both facts survived in the record, but only one could be true. She had a signal, water and a battery pack, and she had told a friend she would check in by noon. Yet 300 searchers, search dogs and two helicopters walked past the place where she really was for 90 days.

How is that even possible? The answer hides in one caption-less photo, a stale GPS pin that looked perfectly believable, and a stretch of the Appalachian Trail locals call Rocksylvania, where a boulder field can hide a human body under a roof of solid rock. This is the full story of how one wrong location sent the biggest search of the summer to the wrong mountain, and of the volunteers who kept tapping the rocks long after everyone else went home.

IN THIS VIDEO:
The last morning in Palmerton and the one rule she broke
Why Pennsylvania is the hardest state on the Appalachian Trail
How a boulder field can hide a gap seven feet below the surface
The photo with the stale GPS data and why nobody questioned it
Why the footprint, the witnesses and the dogs all pointed the wrong way
Why 300 searchers and search dogs missed her again and again
The volunteers who found her 150 ft from the trail

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