Well, that sucks. It sounds like they were a ways away from the car and weather rolled in and they didn't have good shelter and were unlucky. Archive: https://archive.today/g8vBC From the post: >>The two elk hunters found dead last week in southern Colorado were killed by lightning, according to the Conejos County coroner. Andrew Porter, 25, of Asheville, North Carolina, and Ian Stasko, 25, of Salt Lake City, Utah, went missing on a hunting trip near the Colorado-New Mexico border in the Rio Grande National Forest. They were last heard from on Sept. 11 and found dead Thursday, a week later, two miles from the Rio De Los Pinos trailhead. Both men were killed by lightning, but were not directly struck, Conejos County Coroner Richard Martin said. “A lightning strike to the ground took them in an instant,” Bridget Murphy, Porter’s fiancée, wrote Monday in an update on social media. “They didn’t do anything wrong, they didn’t feel fear or pain.”