180: On the Trail of the Lost with Andrea Lankford

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Andrea Lankford returns! We last spoke with the author of Ranger Confidential last year, but today she is back to discuss her new book Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail. The book outlines the stories of missing hikers Chris Sylvia, David O'Sullivan and Kris Fowler, their families and the lengths they (and complete strangers) have gone to find them.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to National Park After Dark.
0:22.5	Hey everyone, we got a special guest for you.
0:25.0	We sure do.
0:26.0	We are back another Thursday episode with a guest.
0:29.1	And today we are joined by someone whose voice you might actually recognize because
0:33.5	they've been on here before.
0:35.3	Andrea Linkford is joining us today.
0:37.6	She's back on the show to discuss another amazing piece of writing that we have eagerly
0:42.3	anticipated.
0:43.3	When we first spoke with her over a year ago when we were recording an episode discussing
0:47.5	her book Ranger Confidential, she had hinted towards a new book that she was working on
0:52.8	and lo and behold, it is finally here and she is back on the podcast to talk about it.
0:59.3	Her new book is titled Trail of the Lost, the relentless search to bring home the missing
1:04.8	hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail.
1:07.2	And this book paints a vivid picture of hiker culture and its complicated relationship
1:12.1	with the ever-expanding online realm.
1:14.4	Despite the ever-growing sprawl of civilization and advent of smartphones, the American wilderness
1:20.2	is still vast and treacherous.
1:22.4	There are dozens of ways to die, hundreds of parks and forests to get lost in, and millions
1:27.5	of places that can easily conceal a corpse.
1:30.6	Andrea Linkford has led rescue missions across America from Yosemite to Grand Canyon, searching
1:35.8	for lost hikers, down aircraft, flash flood victims, homicidal fugitives from justice,
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