This description from the Facebook page is, well, interesting:
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Stacy rode into an area of Yosemite with her father and 6 others where they reached a cluster of cabins, where people could rest up overnight. The group tied the horses and some of them went into the cabins to freshen up. After getting changed into different clothes Stacy left her cabin with the intention of photographing the lake, she had her camera with her. She asked her Dad if he wanted to go with her to lake but he declined and instead a 72 year old man from their group decided to go with her instead, after a little while down the hill the elderly man felt tried and sat down, the rest of the group watching from up above saw the man sit down. They all watched as Stacy went on a little further towards the lake, go behind a couple of trees and eventually disappear from sight, after a few moments when she didn't return the elderly gentleman was a little worried and gathered the others for a search, they found Stacy's lense from her camera just a little way into the woodland but no other clues were found.
I wonder how accurate the above portrayal is. There are no lakes near/visible to Sunrise HSC, and if only the elderly man accompanied her (implying the rest of the group stayed at camp) how was the rest of the group watching "from above"... unless the lake in question is pooling/flooding in Long Meadow, below Sunrise HSC. The problem with that hypothesis would be that 1981 was a dry year, so Long Meadow would probably have had little that resembled a lake by late-July... except perhaps the no-longer-used sanitation pond, which a trail used to lead to--following the route of the buried wastewater pipe.
On the other hand, the other news clippings suggest she was heading to Sunrise Lakes, a much more likely target (but only if they arrived at the camp via Cathedral Pass or Echo Creek/Merced Lake, otherwise they would have already passed the lake on horseback...) and it would make more sense that the "elderly man" got tired heading
up to the pass between the camp and lakes. But the nearest Sunrise Lake is over a mile away, so the elderly man wouldn't have had any reason to expect her missing for at least an hour, not after "a few moments"--unless they didn't have any sense of how far away the lake was, something the choice of flip-flops vs. hiking boots suggests was the case...
Very odd...
