No the study says the body can reach 45C. Thats 113F. It was really hot that day but it gets really cool at night. And its been cool ever since that day. So would have been an easy find at night, or any day after.
The Sheriff Department Sergeant said that if Phil were dead, the thermal imaging wouldn't work. He said the imaging had been so powerful, they had seen small animals and solitary searching volunteers. He said it does work through brush and foliage.
Philip's masters degree was in urban planning and he could have skimmed the Land Use document for Pleasanton Ridge and headed north in the direction of the house that is the EBRPD security/maintenance in the north portion of the park to get help on purpose. Also he may have headed toward the Emergency Vehicle Access point in the north part of the park intentionally. He may also have thought Devany Canyon's entrance/exit had been opened. If you look at this short document, you can see why https://www.ebparks.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?blobid=28136 On p. 2 it says "NEW – Devany Canyon Walk-bike access – No vehicle parking" He was found really close to this.
It was 79F that night, and low 50F-high 70's the days after. So that refutes what you said about ambient being the same or warmer. That only applied the the alleged time he went missing, not when the thermal imaging searches were conducted. Do you agree?
The official staging areas in Pleasanton for Pleasanton Ridge are Castle Ridge (opened in 2018) and Foothill (in southern Pleasanton, been open for years), and there is a city managed park called Augustin Bernal with official trails that lead to Pleasanton Ridge trails.
That's not what the youtube video shows, the youtube video shows it does see through foilage (basically the spot under the tree would have been seen).
Please watch the youtube video, it shows it does indeed work. Maybe the sheriff's office here is using older technology, what a shame. Especially here in Silicon Valley.
Thank you for checking. At the very minimum in this tragedy, we should learn why Phil was never found in an area that the press called its search 'unprecedented', yet he was never found. And fix whatever went wrong to avoid repeating these in the future. Very upsetting.
The first night Philip was missing, I saw on the internet this alert from the Pleasanton police. https://twitter.com/pleasantonpd/status/1414060621042233345?lang=en which came out at 8:14 PM. It is possible that thermal imaging was not deployed until later on, unfortunately perhaps after Philip may have passed away. The first night they seemed to be looking at the hills around Moller according to the twitter announcement. By Sunday it looks like the search expanded into Pleasanton Ridge. Maybe also the later planes were hyper focusing on the loop route rather than searching near the northern part of the park near Dublin Canyon Road.
May I ask that you share where we can find the review on the internet? Thank you
Great point. But no phone, no water bottle, no GPS. I would have expected at minimum a water bottle, as does not conflict with this point.
Tehan Falls via Lying Stump Shortcut Trail is one of them. There are others on biking sites as well. Also on the website that starts with r, people discuss walking this trail that participated in the various PK threads, but I don't think the moderators will allow me to link to it. I think I can only refer to the website that starts with r if it is the missing person who had posted the info.
Very interesting, thank you. So Pleasanton Ridge can be accessed by either the North or the East, right? Unofficially.
I think there are EVMAs in all parts of the park and unofficial entrances/exits at many places including also from Kilkare Rd, Palomares Rd etc. spanning all the borders in all directions. https://www.ebparks.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?blobid=28135 outlines some of the existing ones, the planned ones (Garms, Devany) and ones they do not plan (Kilkare, Niles Canyon)....
Why wouldn't Phil have just parked there instead?
Wow this is 10 years old. And they still don't seem to have the trails set up right, like its always something that's being "worked on". If I'm wrong, let me know. Thanks
If you create a route in Strava to Pleasanton Ridge trails from the Moller staging area, the Lying Stump Shortcut Trails is the only direct route it will show you. But I still wonder why he wouldn't have gone to the Castleridge staging area to take the Courdet Trail up. Strava shows it to be a much more popular run and it's only another mile or so south of Moller.
