Carrie Morris Just now Carrie Morris 4 mins · GoFundMe · PUZZLE PIECES I am struck tonight at how many people have been contributing to helping us narrow down the possibilities of where Steve is in this huge search area. So many have helped, for so long now! Over the past couple of weeks we have been gathering information from Jim and Mikes continuing analysis and searches, Jos tracking efforts, the scent work of the Shekinah HRD dog team out of Montana and Washington State, and most recently a week of HRD work by Michalle & her amazing dog, Brooke. Now it seems that it is all coming together. I watch Michalle spend hours poring over the four foot-long topo map laid out on the dining room table that Jim created for her. She has marks where every HRD dog has shown significant interest, indicating the wind direction at the time. Then she has drawn lines to show how virtually every one of these hits lies on one of two lines. Then, if these lines intersect, we have a very specific target area. And they do. Today the team went back into the drainage to see it from Steves perspective: given how difficult it would be to traverse, when would the first reasonable chance to hike out of it appear? Voila! Located right in that very small target area, there is a game trail on the south side of the drainage that rises with a gentle slope, leading into a conifer forest (not the dreaded manzanita bushes that make movement next to impossible). And Steve loved the woods. So if he exited on this side of the drainage, it could absolutely explain why the dogs keep showing interest on the other side, but we havent found any tangible physical evidence there. The scent could simply be spilling down the bank on this side and across the creek to the other side. Tomorrow Jim Higgins, his wife Erica, Mike Verdooner, Scott Steele, Michalle McMillan and Steve Frary will look for tracks along that trail and any others that seem like reasonable paths he may have taken to get out of that extremely difficult area. If they find them, then they will come get Brooke to direct the group with her scent work. Traveling up the drainage is beyond my physical resources at this point, so I will stay behind at Base Camp to manage communications and emergencies, should they arise. I will spend my time reading, writing, praying, hanging out with Brooke before she goes to work. Trying to digest all that has been happening here over the past three months, hoping to begin to understand how God would like to take these experiences--the most painful, as well as most moving ones--to weave them into a tapestry more real and beautiful than any I could ever have imagined. Beauty for ashes. So we hope to be able to have real closure tomorrow, God willing. Please, God, let it be so.... Sleepily, Carrie Morris
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 06:53:39 +0000
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