[pct-l] PCT Thru-Hiker Missing in Glacier Peak Wilderness-NEED HELP NOW

[Andrea Dinsmore]

Here's a couple more phone numbers for Darrington.........

Peter Forms.........Ranger........360.333.9792

Glen Bergstrom..........SAR..........425.388.3328

PCT MOM
360.677.1237
Skykomish


On 8/30/08, Lawton Grinter <lawtong at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> PCT-L, PCT thru-hiker 'Lucky' has gone missing in the Glacier Peaks
> Wilderness Area.  This is no joke and we need your help right now.  I
> repeat, this is no joke.  This is Disco and I'm in Stehekin right now with
> P.O.D., Wasa and Crow.  P.O.D. and I just got to Stehekin this morning to
> find out that Lucky has not been seen since Tuesday morning.  Today is
> Saturday so it has been 4 full days now.  His wife has been contacted and we
> think (and hope) that Search and Rescue efforts are underway or at least
> getting started right now but there does not seem to be a sense of urgency
> about the situation with the authorities we have talked to thus far.  The
> Dinsmores are also aware of the situation and have contacted a sherrif (not
> sure which county).  Here is what I know as of right now (2 PM
> Saturday).  Lucky had been hiking with 2 other thru-hikers coming out of
> Stevens Pass heading north on the PCT.  All 3 of them camped just south of
> White Pass on Monday night.  Keep in mind that
> the White Pass I'm referring to here is the one on trail in Glacier Peak
> Wilderness just south of Red Pass (not the one with the ski resort in
> southern Washington that hikers pick up packages at).   So they were all
> camped together Monday night and then Tuesday morning they got up and Lucky
> hiked out about 15 minutes before the other 2 did.  The other 2 hikers have
> not seen him since.  P.O.D. and I were about 1.5 days behind them and we did
> not see Lucky nor has anyone else at this point.  Lucky and the 2 hikers he
> was with took the original PCT thru this section as did we.   The weather
> the last couple of days has been rainy, foggy, windy and cold.  The 2 hikers
> that Lucky was with think he may have gotten to White Pass and then taken a
> wrong trail down to the North Fork Sauk River.  The PCT on White Pass is
> above treeline and has at least 2 junctions that aren't marked or signed
> very well and if you are up there in the fog and the rain, it would be real
> easy to end up tak
> ing the wrong trail.  The North Fork Sauk River Trail heads down off White
> Pass to the west and eventually hits a forest service road and then the town
> of Bedal which is on Mountain Loop Highway.  Bedal is just south of the town
> of Darrington.  If you have the Delorme Gazateer for Washington this is on
> page 33.  White Pass is on Page 34.  My other thought is that he may have
> possibly headed east down the FT 1507 trail that goes down the White River
> and on over to Boulder Pass and Little Giant Pass?     The bottom line is
> that he was due in Stehekin on Thursday and hasn't been seen since Tuesday
> morning.  His hiking partners told us that he had a lot of food with him but
> that me was only carrying the PCT data book and possibly the PCT guide
> book.  But we all know that the maps in the guidebook are for the narrow PCT
> corridor and wouldn't help that much if he got way off trail.   White Pass
> serves as the county border between Chelan and Snohomish counties.  Chelan
> county is to
> the east and Snohomish county is to the west.  Wenatchee National Forest &
> Glacier Peak Wilderness are to the east and Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National
> Forest & Henry M. Jackson Wilderness are to the west.    Can someone with
> phone access call both the sherrif for Chelan county and Snohomish county to
> make sure they are escalating the search and rescue effort for Lucky.  Can
> someone also call both national forest ranger offices that I just listed
> above and inquire about search and rescue for Lucky.  I hiked with Lucky and
> know he is a competent hiker and has a lot of food but he might need our
> help right now.    I'm flying blind here in Stehekin.  We met with the park
> service law enforement ranger this morning (i think her name is
> Jordan).  She has made some phone calls but the feeling I get is that this
> is serious business considering that Lucky hasn't been seen in 4 days and
> there needs to be a full scale search and rescue effort going on right now
> and from what I can tell
> that has yet to happen.   If you have any information on Lucky's
> whereabouts, please contact the Dinsmore's and or the North Cascades
> National Park office in Stehekin.    Thank you, DiscoLawton Grinter
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