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After 6 days lost in the mountains, Oregon mountain biker wanders out, drives himself home
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Class-A adulterer ๐ "Honey, I swear I was just lost for the week." j/k
I'm really surprised that someone who goes into remote areas to bike wouldn't have a bike computer (with GPS) or a fitness tracker watch (also with GPS) or a location beacon (with GPS).
The search for him covered 250 miles (and they didn't find him)... ๐ง
This sounds suspicious ๐ค
A search crew can only cover so much ground at once, maybe it's bullshit but crazier stuff has happened. "Missing" people have joined their own search parties not realizing they were looking for themselves until later.
I don't know the specifics, but if he was there to mountain bike, then there would have been a trail, and they had been using ATVs to do the search. So unless he went way out of his way to leave the trail for whatever reason, then it's still a very sketchy story.
It could still be true, but I think it's super, super suspicious.
Consider the fact that he ended up getting back to his car (undetected, despite the vehicle being located before the search), which would imply he either knew how to get back, or he had a GPS device on him, then the whole idea about getting lost for nearly a week just seems way, way, way far-fetched.
In addition to ATVs, they also had motorbikes on the trail, k9 units, drones, a helicopter, and the goddamn military too. I mean, it's as if he didn't want to be found. ๐
That was my first thought too.