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fire one's gun (When a search crew began to look for him a few days later, they located his boots and water equipment surrounded by 18 inches of snow and concluded he couldn't have gone far from that location without shoes in that climate. Nine months later, Hedges skull and his backpack, loaded pistol, and other items were found around seven miles away from the initial discovery. It was inexplicable, Paulides noted, that Hedges could have traversed that distance (equivalent to around 15 trail miles) in that weather without his boots, and also that he never fired his gun to draw attention to his location.  coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver) |
