Friends and family want
help from the United States to find an American citizen living abroad who
disappeared during a hike Thursday in a Baja California, Mexico desert.
Kat Hammontre, 68, and
her dog, Tootsie, went hiking in the desert near San Felipe with a group of
about six friends but she started to have difficulty walking the trail and told
her friends to go on without her.
Hammontre said she
would wait in the parking lot, but when the group returned, she was nowhere to
be found.
"When they came
back about 90 minutes later, she was gone. There was no trace of her or the
dog; No sign of a wild animal attack," Victoria Langsett, a friend of the
missing, said.
Search teams, including
Mexican military helicopters have since been looking for Hammontre.
Langsett hopes that
someone from the U.S. has a search dog that may be able to help.
"A Bloodhound
right now is the only hope of finding her, she’s been out there for three
nights," said Langsett. "She’s somebody’s mother, grandmother, she’s
a friend to hundreds of people."
Langsett said that
Hammontre and her husband lived for a time in San Diego while they were both
treated for cancer before moving back to San Felipe.
Langsett said for her
friend to survive cancer -- only to get lost in the desert -- is unimaginable.
"We're running
short on time we need to give the family hope, hope has no border," said
Langsett.
I saw this when it first came out in Mex media.........authorities were searching for her but instead spotted two large marijuana plantations, which they eradicated.
ReplyDeleteI guess the marijuana plantations were more important than a missing person.
DeleteVery sad article also gave me the chills where can she be
ReplyDeleteBeware: Hike at your own risk
ReplyDeleteStumbling on mariguana plantations in the sands of BC is a miracle, sure, nobody could see them from the air.
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with hooking in some place where there are alot of witnesses? Out there in the desert you are looking for trouble,
pior made worse if you are wearing short hot pants
https://www.radiopatrulla.com/noticias/buscan-a-estimada-estadounidense-de-san-felipe
ReplyDeletePossibly already kidnapped, by the local cartel. What a pity, can't even be at hiking areas.
ReplyDeleteYes, the daughter remarked that the lady was "fiesty" or something. "Fiesty" ain't going to cut it in this case.
DeleteI doubt this is a cartel kidnapping. Probably got lost and dehydrated, but we shall see. I do not believe the hikers stumbled into mj plantios, the mj patches were spotted from the air.
DeleteAlso where they were hiking is a known attraction, they were hiking to a waterfall. She and her husband were quite familiar with the area and spent alot of time around San Felipe, I believe.
thanks for the link @6:45......there is a photo of her fishing. Baja veterans.
I’m thinking CJNG had something to do with this or el cartel de las carpas de vente de San Felipe
ReplyDeleteI never thought I'd be saying this, because I try to be kind, but although I hope the lady and her dog are found safely, with all of the THOUSANDS of people that go missing each year in Mexico, they are calling out all of their resources for a person that chose to go hiking and had to separate from her friends? I don't wish her ill will, and I don't think they should *not* search for her, but there is no huge search or outrage (other than by the families) when Mexicans disappear one, two, three, and 43 and 70 at a time.
ReplyDeleteOn the husband's FB page, someone mentioned, "You'd think no one would want to take her since it will call attention because she's an American" or something like that. F*** that. She should be bulletproof because she's a north American? And by the way, I'm a white north American and shaking my head here.
Dr. K
Unfortunately killing Americans is bad for business... it’s about business.... savvy?
DeleteI understand, but it's rotten.
Delete9:38 I hope you are wearing your panties on your head.
DeleteDamn that's a shame. She just disappeared? I still don't understand why people think it's OK to go and travel to Mexico, didn't another American hiker just get killed in Mexico recently?
ReplyDeleteIts called a mountain lion.
DeleteUninformed white privelegde knucklehead. Venturing out onto dangerous darkness will get you killed. Maybe white idiots should educate themselves before going places. Let me educate these idiots. Places or countries to avoid: Yemen, somalia, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, syria, Saudi arabia and North korea.
ReplyDeleteI have a weird trait where I have always been obsessed with going to places like that. I've been to two of those places so far. Yemen and Somalia will have to wait until I'm old have no family left alive and nothing left to lose. The family doesn't want to even hear about it right now. I was going on a mission trip to Uganda and husband vetoed that one, too. Dr K
DeletePS. Before I leave, I will leave explicit instructions not to spend resources to try to find me if I'm missing, because if I disappear, it will be my own fault. I seriously do hope they find this lady and the dog, though.
DeleteReminds me of the time Dave Mustaines (Megadeth singer) mother in law went missing in Arizona. She was very adamant about being independent out there in that desert. Turned up dead from dehydration i believe. - Sol Prendido
ReplyDeleteThere is always cactus juice.
DeleteWhy do people go hiking when the temps are close to 100 is beyond belief. Anyone who lives in the desert knows you don't hike when temps are this hot.
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