I can't say where the smell came from or if it was Joe, but where I was located at the time, I could believe that a person could have fallen off of the area above me and tumbled quite a ways. There was a lot of vegetation in some regions but there were many relatively open areas also. My point is th...

Here's a picture of the area that I searched today. While I didn't get to the specific location that I was asked to look at, I did do a fair amount of that area. The area is incredibly difficult to hike when you go off-trail as I did. One possibly significant event occurred during my search. I've ma...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Good luck to all those that will be searching. And... thank you.

I'm kinda new to posting on HAZ so please forgive my pitiful first attempt at posting this map.

Gabriele sent me the tracks from Joe's computer and I put them into Delorme Topo USA so that I could accurately look at where he'd been previously. Studying the topos, looking for possible alternate routes (granted, never having been to that area I'm flying blind as far as vegetation, etc.) and came...

I've been seriously considering the following PLB. A bit pricey, but if you need it, the cost is the last thing you'll be worrying about! It has the tracking feature if you want it, but is a true Personal Locator Beacon operating on 406 Megahertz (MHz) and 121.5 MHz. It weighs something like 8 oz. S...