Park Ranger

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1,142 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 27 May

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Each time he started moving again, and the sound got farther away.

After he was gone the second time, I did not move for another 40 minutes.

I lay there with my cheek in the dirt, and I listened to nothing, and I tried to figure out what I was going to do.

When I moved, I moved north, toward the sinkholes.

I'm going to tell you what I did and I want you to understand I wasn't thinking about it as some kind of strategy.

I was scared out of my mind and I was making it up as I went.

I'd been on that ridge once before in daylight with a partner.

I had a flashlight but I didn't dare use it.

I had a knife and half a bottle of water.

I had my radio that didn't work and my phone that didn't work.

I had my boots which was the most important thing I had because they were broken in and they were quiet.

I missed the sinkhole the first time.

I crossed the depression and didn't know I'd crossed it.

I had to backtrack, feeling with my feet, before I felt the ground dip and then dip harder, and then I was standing at the lip.

The first sinkhole on that ridge is roughly oval, about 15 feet on the long axis.

The drop is about 30 feet, and there's a ledge about 10 feet down on the south side where a tree has grown out sideways.

I knew about the ledge because we'd put a dog harness on a kid from search and rescue and lowered him to it during the dog incident.

If I went down to that ledge, I'd be invisible from above.

The tree gave cover.

The ledge was solid.

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