Never Found

 An update regarding Jeanne Burke: she was never found. That's the simple, sad fact. I cannot imagine what her family is going through. Despite that the outcome was likely inevitable after several days due to the cold weather and rain, we still held out hope that she would be rescued. I'm not even sure someone will find her remains in that rugged area. People still post things like, "Look in the blackberry bushes!" or posit that someone picked her up and she's now in a hospital or homeless camp. The latter might have some small grain of truth in it. Still, it seems like one of those stories where someone has amnesia for years and suddenly wakes up knowing their identity. 

It's horrifically sad. I was recently invited to go up to Empire Grade with friends to view a meteor shower, but declined. It's one of the roads that Jeanne was known to have walked.

I can't go up there anymore, and may never.