Best to focus on the positive - her family and community have the closure that they need now.
Hindsight is always 20/20 - surely there was good reason she wasn't found earlier. Rest assured, the searchers did all that was humanly possible to find her.
Many thanks for those who are out there...
IMHO you should go for the slides. The views and the challenge are well worth the trip. And take MadRiver up on his camping offer - he really is quite close to the trailhead :)
I have Darn Toughs and Smartwools.... Both are great socks - Smartwool is definately easier to find - though I'm only a hop skip and a jump from VT and DTs are fairly easy to find over there (not hard to believe given that they are a local product)
FYI - I was thinking about a Cabot hike this weekend, so just called the Hatchery to get the latest on the gate... The nice gentleman that answered said that the gate is open from about 0700 until about 1600 but that if hikers request it either on the day of or ahead of time, they'll leave the...