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Lost In The Woods Podcast

The Deadly Maroon Bells

Lost In The Woods Podcast

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True Crime

3.9582 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In 2016 Dave Cook would set out to summit a few of the most dangerous mountain peaks in Colorado, but he would never return. Where is Dave Cook? Our links: First Phorm link⭐️ https://1stphorm.com/?a_aid=marieschedler&a_bid=acc524e5&chan=Lostinthewoods Come workout with me https://www.1stphorm.app/marieschedler https://open.spotify.com/show/4yFbZbdtAtCeKAsDlnAkew?si=WecC4XCUQb2c0pjIXjSCpw https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-in-the-woods-podcast/id1504163212 https://www.instagram.com/lostinthewoodspodcast/ https://www.patreon.com/lostinthewoodspodcast https://my-store-11745950.creator-spring.com/ https://linktr.ee/Lostinthewoodspodcast buy us coffee: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2323643837186048330&created=1633816408.531276&printed=1 http://paypal.me/lostinthewoodspod Sources: https://www.denverpost.com/tag/david-cook/ https://snowbrains.com/deadly-bells-colorado-sar-performs-final-search-14000-peaks-missing-climber-dave-cook/ https://www.facebook.com/finddavecook/ https://www.14ers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50737&start=108 Dave Gives Back https://www.davegivesback.org/ https://www.aspentimes.com/news/a-call-from-the-mountains-family-of-missing-hiker-launches-search-and-rescue-campaign/ Description of peaks https://www.coloradomountaineering.com/2013/07/mountain-profile-maroon-bells-14156-or.html

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0:00.0

One, two, three, four.

0:15.6

Hi, guys.

0:16.6

I'm Marie.

0:17.1

And I'm Maddie.

0:17.9

And we are here recording Lost in the Woods.

0:20.4

Welcome, welcome.

0:22.1

We just spent a bunch of like unnecessary time outside playing with cats that don't even

0:27.4

belong to us. So I was just trying to put mystic honestly. But he would not let me. He was like,

0:33.3

no, Smoggy's here. He's the one touching me right now. So our cat, if there's any other cats around, he doesn't like to be touched. So if you, like, try to pet him. He thinks it's the cat. He'll, like, bat at you. Like, he clawed me yesterday for the same thing. He'll bat at you and hiss at you. But if no other cats are around, he's like so loving and the sweetest

0:54.5

little, he's just a little baby. He's just the antisocial. So, today we are going to be

1:00.8

talking about Dave Cook, who lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was 49 years old when he went

1:09.3

missing. He's married to Maureen Cook and the couple has three

1:14.7

children, Kate, Ryan, and Sarah. And Dave actually disappeared during a solo trip to summit

1:21.9

peaks in the Maroon Bells area in Colorado. So the Maroon Bells. Now, one thing that Dave has been doing is he has been

1:32.3

going around and he has been submitting 14ers. So those are mountain ranges that are 14,000 feet

1:38.0

or higher. It's like a thing. It's like a club that you can join basically. There are online

1:43.7

forums. There are all sorts of, like, people collect these 14ers, right? Like, how many can I sum it?

1:51.0

I feel like we've talked about this before. We've, we, there's been a couple. I think the one gal that we covered who, I forget which mountain she disappeared in. She had the beacon, though.

2:02.4

Oh, it was such a good case.

2:06.1

But I'm pretty sure that was a 14 or two.

2:09.0

I'd have to look it up to be sure, but I think it was a 14er.

2:19.1

Now, Dave is a former Marine and an expert mountaineer with a lot of experience in the back country.

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