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• Anonymous

  A great group effort by all!  

• Anonymous

  Good Doggie!

• Anonymous

  Good doggie!  Well done everybody else.

• Anonymous

  Glad for a happy ending.  Good job!!

• Anonymous

  Good coordinated effort, this is what happens when we work togethor, and keep focused on why we do what we do.

• Anonymous

  It is always good to see these types of stories in the news these days – not the fact that an innocent person was lost and suffered what must have been a long, cold, lonely night – but rather the demonstration of the good in people, rallying to find her through the night.  A thank you to all involved.

• Anonymous

  The following are quoted from the article;

  “…after she lost her way in Friday night’s rainstorm…”
  “Police began looking for Roche after she didn’t show up for work in Bangor on Friday.”

  Given that she lost her way on Friday night, it could be assumed that she went to work on Friday, and went for her hike after work on that same day. However, the second quotation above contradicts the first quote. So…..was she lost for an entire week, or is this a matter of sloppy reporting?

   

• Anonymous

  Maybe they have a time machine!

• Anonymous

  Not everyone works a nine-to-five, friend.

• Anonymous

  … I also just realize that my username is a very unfortunate coincidence. I am not the subject of this story.

• http://twitter.com/bdnbiz Matt Wickenheiser

  Ha! Good clarification!

• Anonymous

  There’s no place like home.

• http://twitter.com/joncob Jon Coburn

  Bangor Police do not fear bath salts, stabbings or knife wielding amputees…

  but damn if theres a porcupine…

• Anonymous

  Go out into the woods alone with no cell phone? Not me or mine.

• AionNV

  Hey, I can’t blame them there.  Ever seen what a porcupine can do to a dog ?

  One of my earliest childhood memories is of my dad with vice grips, pulling quills out of one of our dogs.  The sounds were horrific.

• Anonymous

  These dogs are wonderful. What a good outcome.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Davida-Willette/100000655412147 Davida Willette

  glad they found her

• Anonymous

  Cell phones don’t work in the woods anyway.  You are most likely too far from a tower if you are really in the woods or there are too many trees for the signal to reach the phone.

• Anonymous

   I lost muh best dawg to ah porkypine And they kills muh trees too!
  I whack ‘em hahd on thah nose wit ah old axe handle evah chanst I gits.
  Draps them sunsahbs daid right theyah.

  Good job rescue teams.

• Anonymous

  cell phones work in the city forest

• Kevin_Of_Bangor

  Please tell me you typed that as a joke.

• cougar 64

  he does not understand nor can they comprehend that cellphones do work in the woods.  depends on your service provider and tower locations.  cellphones have better coverage in the woods then gps units do.

  the only two places myself or anyone on my search team cannot use their cellphone service is in washington county and the allagash.  i used my blackberry in baxter state park last year searching for the missing ohio hiker who busted his knee going off trail.  I was up in the north basin up to the 3,500 foot level and still had cell service.

• Anonymous

  I have to say, with the number of searchers, this woman should have been found a lot sooner. I know City Forest and the surrounding area, having mapped every main and side trail over the years. It just seems to me that the searchers weren’t all that well-prepared in knowing the area. City Forest isn’t that large. Was she even found in City Forest?

  A few years ago, I found a man who had gotten lost when he took East Trail to the Veazie Railroad bed and somehow ended up taking one of the Walden-Parke Preserve’s main trails instead of turning right around when he realized he didn’t know where he was going.

  My City Forest Web site has maps of all of the trails. Just use Google.

• Anonymous

  your a hero for finding that man amazing how you knew so much!!  you have so much knowledge to offer make up some maps and give them to the teams!!  I wonder how many ares of maine there are.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_66ZAIIT2G52RMJ2WGCIFREBVZ4 Joe

  We should chop all the trees down in there so this never happens again.

• Anonymous

  Im glad they found her in time, there should be more public education about going into the woods like bringing appropriate equipment in case of an emergency.

• Anonymous

  I am sorry Cougar 64…that is the most informative cell phone information about the Maine woods I have ever seen.
   A. There is NOT signal all over the place.
   B. You need to turn off your cell phone when in the remote woods, so it doesn’t kill it’s battery looking for service.
  C. A signal still at 3,500′……  Think of towers and how they work. If you are ever searching for a signal in the woods…GO UP IN ALTITUDE. ( I can sit in my truck 3,500 high in  Merrill Strip)
  D. Carry an extra battery close to your warm core when in a place you might need to depend on it.
  E. GPS is satellite, the signal comes down from space. Don’t think it will work in hard weather. It has nothing to do w/ terrain, I can lose it off shore in a white out 
  F. There are three Canadian towers just west of the Alagash, they can be sought when needed. Be prepared for the bill !!! (Ross Mountain Fire tower)
  Satellite phones are the best for the area however.
  G. Always be prepared  !!

• Anonymous

  The woods we are talking about are a quarter of a mile from the Bangor Mall.

• Anonymous

  Lol

• Anonymous

  Homeland security grants have been supplying local police forces with time machines for a couple of years.  Helps with the fight against terrorism.

• Anonymous

  WE HAVE BEEN HIKING TRAILS IN THE USA FOR 40 YEARS.  THE BANGOR CITY FOREST TRAILS ARE THE WORST MARKED WE HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED.  SOMEONE NEEDS TO REMARK THE TRAILS BEFORE SOMEONE DIES IN THERE.                     BOB BRENNAN       TROY, MAINE

• Anonymous

  Love a happy ending!!! Good dog!

• Anonymous

  WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?

• Anonymous

  AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

• Anonymous

  You can usually find your way out of the City Forest by following traffic noise — either Stillwater or the Interstate, it’s the same direction.

• Anonymous

  The loop path is paved and has clear distance signs (based on the parking lot) at 500′ spacing.  Almost everything else is inside of that, and actual roads cut through the interior.   One edge is the old Veazie Railroad bed,  just about impossible to miss.

• Anonymous

  Good job to all involved!!!!! With all the bad crap happening in Bangor, I myself wouldn’t go in the woods alone.

• Anonymous

  Next time she may want to take a compass.(learn how to read it and take a reading before she enters the woods.)

• Anonymous

  and I am happy she is OK.

• Anonymous

  As a very old BOY SCOUT….be prepared!!!!!

• Anonymous

  She might have had a medical problem, that made her loose her way..Happens sometimes..And very happy that Bangor has a forest.. who would have thunk of such a prospect..not I..lol..  :^)

• Anonymous

  As long as you don’t bother the porcupine and touch its quills, you don’t have anything to worry about.

• Anonymous

  Got it covered: http://cityforest.bangorinfo.com/trail-safety.htm

• Anonymous

  That is the funniest thing I have read in awhile…..great comment…..hey, I have an idea….lets bag up a planeload of those critters and drop ‘em over Afghanistan…..I have a bag of pork chops for those (hero) doggies, by the way……LOL….great news story…..

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Todd-Foster/686645014 Todd Foster

  Great Job by all, too bad the politicians couldn’t work together like that! 

  (disclosure: All parties of politicians)

• Anonymous

  lol..he is lost

• Anonymous

  Tell that to the dogs……………….

• Anonymous

  If those are the worst trails you ever encountered you must not venture far from the road anywhere you go.

• Anonymous

  You’re not one of those who believes porcupines can throw their quills, are you?

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_N3SFMI7O5A3MDUW35LN745MV7Y iron_leg_dave

  I actually sent a text message from Owl’s Trail, the deepest location there, to Facebook two days prior, with the same cell service (US Celullar, I know someone who works with this woman and she has a company issued blackberry with USC). There IS CELL PHONE SERVICE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE BCF. I run those trails everyday, and I have made calls from EVERY CORNER of the lot… from her cell provider. It’s not a rural mountain hike, it’s a fu**ing small parcel of land between Bangor, Orono and the interstate. She is retarded, and so are you dipshits. If you aren’t a hiker, don’t go out and play make-believe. Stay home and watch Lifetime.   

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_N3SFMI7O5A3MDUW35LN745MV7Y iron_leg_dave

  Lol.

• Anonymous

  In fact, the closest cell tower to City Forest is just shy of 1.5 miles from the center of the park.

• Anonymous

  You’re not one of those that think a dog will not get inquisitive around a porcupine, are you?

• Anonymous

  It appears you are deaf as well as blind….

• Anonymous

  Really, you think finding someone in the dark and the rain, who is lying down is an easy thing?

  Maybe we could use your x-ray vision in other ways, because obviously your talents are being wasted by wandering around the city forest and commenting on the BDN website…

• Anonymous

  I’m sorry but more “public education” doesn’t solve the common sense derth…

• Anonymous

  Considering my knowledge of the territory, yes, I do think 13 hours to find a person, with that many searchers, is far too long. They would have been calling her name constantly. It sounds as though they didn’t know the trail system.

• Anonymous

  Me either!

• Anonymous

  Last I knew, there was a bear who made City Forest its home.  That would be enough to keep me from (1) going out there alone in case I got hurt somehow, and (2) not taking at least some pepper spray (especially if it’s a mamma bear with cubs).  Yikes!