The next day, she texted: “Lost since yesterday. Off trail 3 or 4 miles. Call police for what to do pls. XOX.”
The last activity on her phone, according to wardens, was Aug. 6, 2013.
Her messages weren’t sent out due to bad phone reception. Where she was hiking was in a remote part of Maine.
“This is some of the worst country in Maine,” Deb Palman, who established the wardens’ K-9 search unit, told the Globe. “It’s hard to understand how logistically difficult this area was. On any given day, by the time a searcher would get close to where Largay was found, they'd have to turn around to make it back to their vehicles by nightfall.”
She was found in a heavily forested area around 3,500 feet east of of the easterly shore of Redington Pond.
“She would write in her journal every day with a day and a date and a passage,” Warden Lt. Kevin Adam wrote in a report on her disappearance, the Bangor Daily News reported. “The passages were consistent every day and there were written entries up to Aug. 10, 2013. There was nothing from Aug. 11-17. The last entry was dated on Aug. 18. We are unsure if this is a correct date or not.”
