Teddy, thank you for a prompt and insightful reply. Appreciated! If I understand your meaning, then the DP9 would have never used Dyatlov Pass to get to the forest (cedar) at all. The trees are too dense on the pass. You propose they crossed over the ridge and down to the cedar that way and pitched their last camp.
I know what I wrote may be read like this but I said something else, that once you found the bodies, once you are already down there, the easier path to go up is the trajectory of the 3 bodies found. On the contrary to what you are saying (what you thought I was saying), from the ridge you would descend where the yellow arrow says Dyatlov Pass. Only later would one realize this is not such a good idea because the forest and terrain are not favorable. You can tell that just by looking from the ridge down, summer or winter.
It is impossible to guess which way they went if it was not for the tent. If the tent was moved there after they died, no way to know what happened and how it happened exactly. The way you would go down for the first time without knowing anything about tent and outlier is absolutely different from what we do nowadays as tourist touring landmarks of the incident.
Once I tried doing it directly (yellow arrow), got lost, met a bear with cubs, and I am never doing it again. But you don't know that in advance.
Topic: The path to the Cedar (Read 11671 times)
