Missing hunters in Colorado

[Huntindog45]

so after 45 pages of people speculating.... and telling us all what was done wrong.....

 

[Dan Carey]

Very tragic and highly unusual to be killed by lightning.

 

[dlee56]

Not the most detailed video but it has some good tidbits.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Interesting wouldn’t have thought it was lighting!

Lighting is about the only thing that made sense to the question how did 2 healthy dudes with an inreach die together without ever sending a signal and nothing obvious at the scene (like buried in rocks or such).

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

I'd say that sometimes there's absolutely nothing you can do about lightning, it hits you or it doesn't. You can do everything right and still get hit. It happens.

There are things to minimize the risk (which you linked) but yes once you've checked off those boxes its just bad luck if you get hit.

 

[atmat]

Also, 90% of lightning strike victims survive. This is a rarity upon rarity.

 

[TaperPin]

Wow, that’s rotten luck.

 

[Trumpkin The Dwarf]

Wow. Really grateful they went quickly. That's probably the best way I could imagine going out in the mountains!
Absolutely terrible for their families though. Definitely makes me think about better tracking for my wife's sake.

 

[MuleDeerMike]

1 in a million (billion?) bad luck. They were on there way back to the truck it sounds like. They likely did nothing wrong. RIP.

 

[justin davis]

Lighting is about the only thing that made sense to the question how did 2 healthy dudes with an inreach die together without ever sending a signal and nothing obvious at the scene (like buried in rocks or such).

Yea forsure. It does make sense

 

[Indian Summer]

Elk hunters found dead in southern Colorado were killed by lightning, coroner says

Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko, experienced outdoorsmen, were caught in a storm Sept. 12, according to Bridget Murphy, Porter’s financée

coloradosun.com

 

[ez_willie]

so after 45 pages of people speculating.... and telling us all what was done wrong.....

Unreal, just had to cancel 22 different subscriptions on Amazon for fire starter kits.

 

[MuleDeerMike]

Good reminder that if you're with someone in a lightning storm and you need to hunker down and ride it out, to put some distance between yourselves in case one gets struck and the other can do CPR/call for help.

 

[Dan Carey]

Yeah like be under a different tree 50 yards away.

 

[MallardSX2]

Sad way to go but I am glad it was instant death and they didn't suffer.

 

[MuleyFever]

Lighting is about the only thing that made sense to the question how did 2 healthy dudes with an inreach die together without ever sending a signal and nothing obvious at the scene (like buried in rocks or such).

My thoughts exactly.

 

[wyosteve]

A co-worker's son had a buddy who got struck and killed in the mountains of Wyo. about 10 years ago and there was a fisherman struck and killed while out on a lake in Montana when the storm clouds were miles away. Never underestimate the potential!

 

[blicero]

Sheriff's department said they were found 2 miles from the trailhead. If you buffer the trailhead by 2 miles, most of it is above 11K ft, on top of the mesa with very sparse tree cover.

I got caught in a lightning storm the next drainage over one summer (Elk Creek), very uncomfortable experience. Prayers for their families.

 

[kpk]

This was probably the best way to go compared to everything else speculated.

 

[TaperPin]

I see Colorado has 58 million man-days of outdoor recreation each year, 500,000 air-to-ground lightning bolts, and usually only 2 fatalities a year since 1980. It may be higher than 1 in 29,000,000 odds if you’re on the mountain during a storm, but that’s crappy luck.