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Not sure why this reminds me of these people. When I lived in Gunnison it would get -30 f. or worse.

3 found dead at remote Gunnison area campsite were trying to escape society, stepsister says

The three deceased individuals found at Gold Creek Campground earlier this month are thought to have tried to live there through the winter, according to Gunnison County Coroner Michael Barnes. As of press time, their identities had still not been released.

On Sunday, July 9, the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by a hiker near Gold Creek Campground who had discovered a remote campsite with a heavily decomposed individual within the camp. Gold Creek is located on U.S. Forest Service land about 7 miles north of Ohio City near the southeast corner of the Fossil Ridge Wilderness.

The following morning, the sheriff’s office discovered two more individuals within the campsite. It appeared the individuals had been deceased for a substantial period of time. Members of the Western Mountain Rescue Team assisted with the recovery.

The deceased are not locals, although Barnes told the Times that he thinks the three individuals are related. He suspects they died of “malnutrition and/or exposure sometime during the winter.” A conversation with some of those believed to be the relatives of the deceased helped him speculate about how long they had been camping.

“At this point it appears that these three individuals began long-term camping at the location near Gold Creek Campground in approximately mid-late July last summer (2022) and attempted to stay through the winter,” he wrote in an email on July 13. “Evidence suggests that the group may have intended to live there permanently.”