peladoboton wrote:i heard nothing of this in talkeetna over the weekend, and that's the kind of business that would have been all over the place (as was the French climber who died going after his sled).

likely bogus.

You've misread my message (or missed a great deal of this thread). The original story isn't bogus; it's just a year old. What's likely to be bogus is the New England trail report that is purportedly by her.