Yeah, we'll probably never get much for details about what went wrong. Did they get lost? Were they undone by a mechanical injury? The bodies were found one day apart so my guess (if I had to guess) that one of them was physically unable to continue and the other attempted to hike out to get help. Deaths on a routine nature outing are always tragic, I just hope that if nothing else we can learn from their story to help others avoid such a fate.

I'm a woods kind of guy. I'd be a fish out of water in the desert. So I'd probably carry as much water as I could manage. Still if you got seriously turned around and lost the water would go pretty fast.