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The cairn line that lured her nine miles from safety

The cairn line that lured her nine miles from safety

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A line of cairns leads a lone hiker nine miles from her car into roadless Oregon wilderness - how did that expose her?

The cairn line that lured her nine miles from safety

In this episode, we follow the timeline of Frances Sanders’ disappearance into the Ridgecut Wilderness and the baffling pattern search teams uncovered. What decisions, skills, and odd clues shaped those eleven days, and which question matters most now?

Person: Frances Sanders
Date: October 5-14, 2019
Location: Ridgecut Wilderness, Harlow National Forest, eastern Oregon
Occupation: School librarian; former land surveyor
Item found: Daypack at mile 2 (waterproof shell, water filter, emergency blanket)

- Frances parked a gray 2014 Subaru at Sutter Creek trailhead and walked into the roadless wilderness alone.
- She had a decade of professional surveying experience and still carried a baseplate compass in her pack.
- For four years she called her son every Wednesday at 5:45 a.m.; that call did not happen the week she disappeared.
- Search teams found her daypack intact at mile two, with survival gear deliberately left behind.
- On October 14, teams mapped eleven identical five-stone cairns, each about one mile apart, set in a dead-straight line leading north into the backcountry.

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