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Good article. Not much has changed over the years in skydiver assessments. The key for me is Cooper covered all of the minimum basics described by skydivers so he definitely had an idea about how to get this done, he waited to bail in a survivable rural zone near but not too close to civilisation with easy access back toward Vancouver-Portland, he had time, conditions favored an escape from law enforcement, none of his gear was ever found (thats important), and money turns up at Vancouver which links him to an escape scenario ... that adds up to at least 50-50 chance he survived the initial jump. Did he survive the jump and get away? The evidence suggests he survived enough to make it back to the Vancouver area. What happened then? God only knows.
The theft of boots at the Heisson Store we discussed years ago (if this is not a made up account!) may confirm his landing area and as Ive always said, offers a direct rail route south back to Vancouver and literally along River Road only steps behind the Fazio property and Tina Bar ... which thousands of people were familiar with back in 1971. Cooper could have been looking for an unseen route back across the river? The problem for Cooper is the hobo encampments (and people law enforcement assess as "people you would not want to meet!") in certain areas along this rail line at Vancouver in 1971.
Its like my cousin in the Sheriff's Dept thought: "If his money is here then he was here, physically, literally."
** credit to FLYJACK for his current updated version of my old map published at DZ more than a decade ago - its nice to see FJ copying my old work without giving credit -
