Ingrid Lane always loved to hike. Despite her chronic health problems, she treasured spending time in nature, said her mother, Rebecca Lane. Family and friends believe that's what 37-year-old Ingrid Lane was doing in October when she disappeared after heading out alone for a hike in the Jemez Mountains.
She was last seen in Jemez Springs, where she had visited the Bodhi Manda Zen Center. "Sadly, in my heart of hearts, I think she got lost hiking," Rebecca Lane said. "She'd had COVID, she had impaired lungs, her car was left at 9,100 feet elevation.
I think she just got lost somewhere and she's somewhere in the wilderness and has passed away." Law enforcement and volunteers' efforts to find Ingrid Lane came up empty in the days and weeks after she went missing last fall. Searchers focused mainly around the remote site where her car was found off Forest Road 144 near San Antonio Mountain, just west of the Valles Caldera National Preserve.
More than 80 search and rescue volunteers renewed the hunt recently, Rebecca Lane said, also without success. She had driven to New Mexico from Oregon with her sister to be present during the search. "They used it as a training session," she said.
"But boy, did they put effort in." Ingrid Lane, an Albuquerque resident and St. John's College graduate, had struggled for years with mental health issues, her family members and friends said, though it remains unclear whether that played a role in her disappearance.
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