[n3uromancer]

The author is actively participating in the search for a hiker who got lost in the Joshua Tree National Park in 2010:

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/searchi...

[supernova87a]

That one had the coverage in the NYT Magazine as well. I wonder in that case did the guy get abducted or some similar victim of crime. Turns out that wandering off alone in the uninhabited desert actually can be dangerous.