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Alone, Thirteen Pounds Lighter: How She Survived Eleven Days

Alone, Thirteen Pounds Lighter: How She Survived Eleven Days

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Alone, Thirteen Pounds Lighter: How She Survived Eleven Days

Every detail of survival matters when the landscape wants you gone - a green roll of electrical tape, a dried strip of willow bark, and a Mylar blanket the size of a napkin helped a trained cyclist stay alive for eleven days; how did those small items become the difference between life and death?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of what happened from the moment she left her truck on August 11 to when a volunteer found her on August 22, laying out the route choices, the missing signage, and the improvised repairs that signaled her path - could a decommissioned road and a single makeshift bike fix explain how she ended up twenty miles from her truck?

Person: Laura Vickers
Date: August 11-August 22
Location: Calloway Creek canyon, Warrick Hills loop, Oregon high desert
Distance from vehicle: more than 20 miles
Weight loss: 14 pounds

- She left her truck at the Calloway trailhead on August 11 with two energy gels, half a protein bar, a small multi-tool, a patch kit, a roll of green electrical tape, and a folded Mylar blanket.
- At about 2:15 p.m. on August 11, the summit recorded 0.75 inches of rain in under 90 minutes with lightning and winds up to 38 mph.
- The forest road she descended had been decommissioned and closed that spring and was not marked on the cycling map she carried.
- A carbon fiber road bike was found wedged under a culvert on August 19, handlebars tucked in, rear derailleur fixed with green electrical tape wrapped around dried willow bark.
- Search and rescue volunteer Brian Kocher found Laura alive eleven days after she left, with a fractured foot and roughly fourteen pounds lighter.

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