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If it were bleached white, it would look like part of a human skeleton I walked up on in the Moab.
Backstory? Where in Moab?
I went on an Outward Bound trip in Utah in 2003. We went into the canyons for several weeks. I don't remember which canyon this was . I could probably find it with a good
map.
We were on the canyon floor hiking for about
an hour and saw a lot of big cat tracks and the girls were getting
nervous. The instructors said not to worry about it because we were in a group and would scare kitty away. I stepped off of the trail to hose out and almost stepped on the guys
bones. I let everybody but the instructor in the rear go by. I told him he needed to look at this set of bones and he blew it off like they would be animal bones like we had seen
so many times before. I said no for real you need to see this set, and he looked over the rocks at the bones. There was about one third of the spine still with the pelvis. The right
femur and patella were still there. About half of the left femur were about 5 feet away with several ribs. He identified the bones as being male. We did not look for other bones or
disturb the area. The instructor was a
bit freaked that this was a human and asked me not to say anything to the group. I told him I would stand at the bend and make sure nobody else was coming back. He
got on the sat phone and called somebody to do a recovery. We looked at the canyon walls and saw a cave opening he thought was "kitty's house"
The instructor said that people would get drunk and wander into the desert to suicide and he thought kitty got this one. The instructor pushed us harder than normal that day
and we crunched more miles than usual.