Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
You know, I was just thinking about this further, and I thought about Sloppy Joe's post about how he "gets shit" from other hikers for bringing a huge load of bottled water, instead of "filtering it from natural sources" like the others do.
That might be our answer right here.
Super hot day, said to be 107-109 degrees.
They were only found with a small (albeit unused) pouch of water on them. Maybe they had gotten used to filtering natural outdoor water instead of lugging bottles around, especially since they liked long hikes, and would carry the baby around with them, which minimized what one of them could carry bottle-wise.
I would love to know if any water filtering device was found on them. If there was, then it becomes much more likely that they filtered the river water for everyone (including the dog), started walking back to the car, got super sick from the algae, and died on the trail.
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