Two bodies have been found in Joshua Tree National Park, locked in an embrace, nearly three months after a southern California couple vanished while hiking nearby. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said the bodies were found Sunday at the end of a trail of water bottles and food wrappers. Officials have not yet confirmed the identities of the bodies, pending an autopsy. Rachel Nguyen and Joseph Orbeso, 20 and 21, were reported missing July 28, after they failed to check out of their accommodations near the park. Orbeso was from Lakewood and Nguyen from Westminster - both suburbs south of Los Angeles. Orbeso's father Gilbert took part in the search on Sunday. 'I believed I was going to find them. I didn't know when, but I had my answer today,' Gilbert toldKABC. He said that they found clothing near a wash, and a trail of water bottles and food wrappers led them to the bodies, which were embracing one another. 'I hope that they can rest in peace now,' Gilbert said. He added to KESQ: 'After going a long time on these hikes, I feel that we have closure, and we know we found them. That was our main goal, was to find them.' Orbeso and Nguyen's car, a burgundy Lexus, was discovered near the Maze Loop, in the northwest area of the park, and footprints were seen leading away from it. 'The way the tracks were picked up indicate these people could be walking in circles, which is not uncommon when people are lost,' George Land, a spokesman for Joshua Tree National Park, told the Orange County Register. Temperatures in the park had topped 100 degrees and it was unclear whether the couple had water and supplies with them.
Land said the couple did not appear to be experienced hikers. 'They weren't desert rats,' Land said. 'This is a whole different world out here.' Orbeso and Nguyen visited Joshua Tree National Park to celebrate her Nguyen's birthday, according to their friend Austin Young, 23. Young said Orbeso, a security guard at a Long Beach golf course, was 'in very good shape, always carries knives when hiking and is a survivalist. 'He is also the most respectful, honest, and straight-forward person you will ever meet,' he said.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said the bodies were found Sunday at the end of a trail of water bottles and food wrappers. Officials have not yet confirmed the identities of the bodies, pending an autopsy.
Rachel Nguyen and Joseph Orbeso, 20 and 21, were reported missing July 28, after they failed to check out of their accommodations near the park. Orbeso was from Lakewood and Nguyen from Westminster - both suburbs south of Los Angeles.
'I believed I was going to find them. I didn't know when, but I had my answer today,' Gilbert toldKABC.
He said that they found clothing near a wash, and a trail of water bottles and food wrappers led them to the bodies, which were embracing one another. 'I hope that they can rest in peace now,' Gilbert said.
He added to KESQ: 'After going a long time on these hikes, I feel that we have closure, and we know we found them. That was our main goal, was to find them.'
Orbeso and Nguyen's car, a burgundy Lexus, was discovered near the Maze Loop, in the northwest area of the park, and footprints were seen leading away from it.
'The way the tracks were picked up indicate these people could be walking in circles, which is not uncommon when people are lost,' George Land, a spokesman for Joshua Tree National Park, told the Orange County Register.
Temperatures in the park had topped 100 degrees and it was unclear whether the couple had water and supplies with them.
Land said the couple did not appear to be experienced hikers.
'They weren't desert rats,' Land said. 'This is a whole different world out here.'
Orbeso and Nguyen visited Joshua Tree National Park to celebrate her Nguyen's birthday, according to their friend Austin Young, 23.
Young said Orbeso, a security guard at a Long Beach golf course, was 'in very good shape, always carries knives when hiking and is a survivalist. 'He is also the most respectful, honest, and straight-forward person you will ever meet,' he said.
好恐怖。看到脚印那段也被吓到了
其实很多出事的人都是自以为很懂什么都不怕
完全没经验，不懂知道野外会遇到什么会发生什么
太可惜了，bless这对壁人！
我们经常爬的一个山， 步道被人走得不能再熟了， 每年还会死人
感觉是鬼打墙遇到灵异事件了
總有人開著不合適的車off road，在這種地方這種氣溫車子拋錨不再路邊如果食物跟水不夠，根本就是差不多等死了
不一定是迷路吧，国家公园一般会提供地图，再结合太阳的方向，找方向应该不会有问题的吧
不知道到底发生了什麼事了，但誠心祝愿死者安息。
这位mm說到一个重点就是"多準備，以防万一"。
用大脑想想
没信号你打911有谁接受到？打都打不出。
是没sim卡之类可以照打哦911，但前提是你手机有信号。
楼上那几个说 Joshua Tree也会出事的， 是不是就坐车在Joshua.Tree兜了一下风? Joshua Tree有荒漠有山有石头群，出事并不是一个非常简单的地形。你自己没有探索过不要小看这个公园。更重要的是，对任何自然公园都要有敬畏之心
Joshua Tree出事这并不是第一起。几年前也有couple夏天在这个公园出事。
一直无法理解这个破烂公园有什么好看的。
我们有时候把gear都都在帐篷里去summit, 开始有人担心怕丢。。。小偷得先爬个千八百米来偷。。。话说那些gear都真不便宜倒是。。
对于没经验的人，简单的野外那也是野外，照样有陷阱和困难，尤其是时间一长，精神和身体的能量会严重下降，这时候要存活比刚开始更难。食物跟不上的话，恐惧感会更强，心理更容易崩溃。
做好research再去，脑子里要提前记忆路线，不要走起来了才看地图，加强自己navigation能力，一旦发现问题，及时求救。
打不通，但是一回到有信号的地方，911就给我打回来了
有一次和一群hiking牛人去一个计划4小时完成的trail，结果也是走丢，最后hiking 了8小时以上时间，还没能回到趴车处。最后沿着fire road走到了豪宅区，外面已经去黑麻黑了……牛人们然后沿着街走回爬车厂取了车回来接我们剩下的菜鸟。那年头还没有手持gps。
是的，其实再小的, 离家里再近的公园都有可能出事。很多年以前我和2个朋友一起去我们小town的一座小山丘上走个trail。那个出口处subdivision有很多民居的。当时到的时候4点了吧，我们以为很快就能走完，谁知道走了不久天就暗了，我们当时是临时兴起没什么准备，所以也不知道还要走多久。当时考虑过是往回走，还是继续向前。后来我们还是继续向前了。天暗的很快，很快就伸手不见五指了，用了手机照明能够稍微看清一点路。当时我很害怕，一是担心迷路，二是担心会有coyote之类的出现。后来我们又走了一阵子还是没见到出口，我就打电话给911了，接线员问我在哪里，我根本不知道那条trail的名字，只能跟她说了那座小山的名字，可是接线员竟然从没有听说过这座山，而且她的态度好像是她无能为力的样子，我当时心理很崩溃。还好正说着，就看到了前面出口处停车场的灯光，我就跟接线员挂了电话。那次经历真是难忘，还记得一开始大家还看风景拍照，后来就都默不作声，加紧步伐走路了。所以到不熟悉的park去，都要做好准备, 关键时候还是要靠自己, 911不一定有用。
R.I.P.
对于没有经验的hiker，其实只要知道，在准备不足的状况下在Joshua Tree NP hiking是个很大的冒险就行了。即使有很好的dayhike计划和合理的turn around point， GPS, 水袋，食物，保温毯，电池等等都一定要在背包里。
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我觉得这个park还挺有意思的。晚上camping看星空最赞。白天的话感受一下荒漠的荒芜感。有时候象到了外星上一样。
看难易程度。最好先去拿个公园提供的地图，一般上面会标记各个trail的难度。新手千万不要走难度大的trail，极易迷路。
那个 APP 20刀就买了，很方便。
后面又说男的爸爸找到他们了 这个是两篇新闻么？
我们附近最近救援队就救了一个女的， 也是老hiker/trail runner了。 几乎一摸一样的情节
不要怕， 先集体活动， 做好功课， 挑走熟的步道。
不要一个人，stay on trail,千万不要off trail.尽量准备充分-水和头灯是必带的
不要怕。不会有人比我更不认路了~~~~~ 重点是胆小就好就会谨慎
迷路的事我倒还没有遇到，走错z拐弯是有的，发现后及时返回就好，某些地方trail和非trail看起来很像，我的狗基本每次都能找到对的，然后我老是和他反着。还没有碰到过喜欢bushwacking的人，大部分人都是走trail的。我之前也不用gps的，最多手机看个方向--again，还是运气好没出岔子。现在我手机里有个收费gps app，可以先下载gps路线图，这个对于天气不好比如大雪大雾的时候找路很有用，另外就是没有beat path的比较难的山，需要自己找path的。因为山体之复杂，在上面看以为能下到底，然而下去了一看竟是断壁，并且是风化严重的碎石，于是traverse，发现又是断壁，如此反复。
至于天气恶劣的时候，风和日丽时容易的地方也会变难。爬14er摔死的都不是新手。
Re。。。好年轻的生命。。。RIP！
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off trail自己找路其实很多人都喜欢，但是我认识的人里对bushwacking这事没什么人特别喜欢， 迫不得已。。。我们冬天走很多雪峰， 真的有点怕， 因为那些树井指不定啥时候就有， 尽管一再小心。 glacier travel 我暂时就不想了， 上rope虽然相对安全， 但不想拖牛人的后腿。 去年冬天从雪坡上滑下来， 虽然有冰斧最后自救， 但真的吓坏了。。。好久不敢走雪。。。
夏天会好一些。
挨着滑雪场一般会有。
对啊，国家公园没有手机信号很烦恼
都是trade off啊。 想保持自然原始风貌， 就要少人工建设。。。多人工建设， 自然风貌就损失一些。
很多人没有意识到沙漠里hike其实风险挺高的，因为实在太热了。这篇文章hiker最后找到的地方离main trail head只有一个mile。从他迷路到死也就是短短的一天时间。
不要去破坏自然风貌吧，青山绿树的多几个电线杆多难看。
hiking本身就存在风险， 而且隐患不小呢。
你在哪一带爬山啊？今年春夏我屁滑了几次雪，不陡的滑不动，然而太陡的刹不住会撞石头--然后对这事就没有那么大大咧咧了。冬天危险太多了啊，你们怎么预防雪崩？我刚开始滑雪的时候有一次冲到树井里了，爬了半天才爬出来，还好不深。不过有树井的话，说明海拔还不是很高。话说有的popular backcountry ski的地方，在树线以下的，去过几次，但还木有遇过树井，有可能是因为树已经不密了，碰到的概率小一点。
有一次11月临时决定scramble一个山，也是吃了个教训，山体是大石头、中石头、小石头分布在不同地方，都被雪盖住了，不能完全看到石头在哪，于是问题就来了，往哪落脚啊，大石头的缝隙可以把整个人都吞了。只能拿整条腿在雪里探，下山时间比上山长了一倍。裤子和鞋子里都结冰了。那会没经验，裤子穿的都不是防水的，那片区域只有我一个人，还有一个帐篷但没有看到人。现在才不干这事了。说起来我运气挺好的。
妹，我看天热就没去爬，看爬山群发消息，居然有3，4个人晕倒了，就是村边很小的土坡
山里一旦失温后果很严重, 哪怕白天很热，晚上温度降到80度起了风，搞不好人就没了。
高温还不在家里呆着？没点自我保护的意识