The Boot on the Gate: How a Trail Suddenly Vanished
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The Boot on the Gate: How a Trail Suddenly Vanished
A single right boot, looped over a locked gate with no footprints around it, triggered a search that followed a scent two and a half miles into the backcountry - then ended on a bare rocky bench as if the person simply vanished. What could a solitary boot, soil in its tread that matches nowhere, and a campsite with a fire ring later dated by radiocarbon possibly mean for the man found alive eleven miles away?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline and discoveries from the Dunmore Road gate through the search in Kessler Hollow, from the missing-man report to the scent trail and the odd footprint sequence in Orsen Wash, asking what the unexplained boot and the radiocarbon result reveal about where Edward Price had been and when.
Person: Edward Price
Date: December 3 (boot found); truck noted Dec 6-8; missing-persons filed Dec 9; search assembled Dec 10-12
Location: Dunmore Road gate, Kessler Hollow, Calverton County
Status: Boot in Calverton County Sheriff's evidence inventory; man later found alive eleven miles away
Event: Radiocarbon test on campsite fire ring conducted months after search
- One right boot was found looped over the top rail of a locked gate at six fifteen a.m, on December 3 with no footprints nearby.
- Search dogs followed a scent trail two and a half miles along a ridgeline before the scent ended abruptly on a rocky bench.
- A green pickup was observed sitting in the Dunmore Road pullout on December 6, December 8, and reported on December 9, implying it had sat there at least seventy-two hours.
- Boot prints in Orsen Wash showed a lug-sole size ten-eleven with a forty-two-inch stride measured over approximately sixty feet.
- Edward Price was forty-eight, had eleven years’ experience walking remote ground, and kept laminated emergency cards in every pack noting blood type and penicillin allergy.
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A single right boot, looped over a locked gate with no footprints around it, triggered a search that followed a scent two and a half miles into the backcountry - then ended on a bare rocky bench as if the person simply vanished. What could a solitary boot, soil in its tread that matches nowhere, and a campsite with a fire ring later dated by radiocarbon possibly mean for the man found alive eleven miles away?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline and discoveries from the Dunmore Road gate through the search in Kessler Hollow, from the missing-man report to the scent trail and the odd footprint sequence in Orsen Wash, asking what the unexplained boot and the radiocarbon result reveal about where Edward Price had been and when.
Person: Edward Price
Date: December 3 (boot found); truck noted Dec 6-8; missing-persons filed Dec 9; search assembled Dec 10-12
Location: Dunmore Road gate, Kessler Hollow, Calverton County
Status: Boot in Calverton County Sheriff's evidence inventory; man later found alive eleven miles away
Event: Radiocarbon test on campsite fire ring conducted months after search
- One right boot was found looped over the top rail of a locked gate at six fifteen a.m, on December 3 with no footprints nearby.
- Search dogs followed a scent trail two and a half miles along a ridgeline before the scent ended abruptly on a rocky bench.
- A green pickup was observed sitting in the Dunmore Road pullout on December 6, December 8, and reported on December 9, implying it had sat there at least seventy-two hours.
- Boot prints in Orsen Wash showed a lug-sole size ten-eleven with a forty-two-inch stride measured over approximately sixty feet.
- Edward Price was forty-eight, had eleven years’ experience walking remote ground, and kept laminated emergency cards in every pack noting blood type and penicillin allergy.
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