Book Review: Trail of the Lost

I too found this book very readable and appreciated the viewpoint of a SAR ranger – how draining it is to fail in a rescue, how hard to avoid self-recrimination. And apparently it is hard to avoid being sucked down a rabbit hole, as the whole “corpse-finding” dowsing rod episode revealed. That part of the book was painful to read, but the rest of it moved along well.

“Of the thousands, it is not altogether unlikely and plausible, that these individuals simply wanted to disappear, all of their own accord. A la, Into the Wild.”

Possibly.

Another good book about this topic is Nature Noir, about a park ranger in the Sierra that went missing. Suffice to say that unlikely things can happen even to highly experienced hikers. I changed some of my habits in snow after reading this.

Just finished this book–it’s well worth the read.