Trail of the Lost

This was fascinating and sad. I was impressed with the people who committed so much of their time trying to find these missing hikers and even though I had a feeling that they wouldn't be found , it was still interesting to see the processes of searching.

I really appreciate that the author said that of course there is no way to know what the missing people were thinking and so she put, "I think" or "maybe" or "what if he thought XYZ" instead of the liberties that some true crime writers take with victims' thoughts. I REALLY hate that so I appreciated that she made it clear that was not her intention.

Finally, I think because she was a former park service police officer, she gave WAY too much credit to the cops in general, despite the fact that they didn't take these disappearances seriously and were bad at searching. They always got the benefit of the doubt!! You'd think she would see how utterly useless they were but I can see how her experience blinded her to that.