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WOW! Lost Hunter Found 53 Years Later
Brookwood
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I'm surprised there was something left to be found after so long! Predictors must not be common in Idaho. At least, after all this time there will be closure for family. RIP long lost hunter.
Remains of Idaho hunter missing for 53 years found by another hunter (yahoo.com)
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I skipped thru the article earlier sounds like they found his wallet with all his info I would guess maybe some gear and a few bones could not have been much left
at least the family has closure to some degree on bringing him home after all these years
Died doing what he wanted.
Once in the Colorado in the early 70s, I sat down on a timbered ridge to take a break and watch for bucks. I noticed a rotten old GI web belt buried deep in the pine needles. I pulled out what was left of it, and it had an old canteen and compass case attached to it. The compass was some old European model and was corroded and the needle was seized up. I looked around, and fortunately did not find a skeleton or rusty rifle. I always wondered if someone got hurt or lost up on that ridge, and why they left their gear belt.
I drew a goat tag and hunted in the White cloud's south of Challis one year. Goat area is certainly dangerous terrain.
I've been in several places in the Idaho mountains where I knew if I fell off a cliff or otherwise met my demise no one would ever find me.
Hopefully his family will now find real closure about this.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Sadly after all that time, there may be no family left alive that would remember him.
...Yeah, but was he Ok?...
His wife and some other family members are still around the local article says.
A lot of that country above timberline doesn’t get trod much by human or predator.
Mule
Was the canteen and belt up around Estes Park?
As wild as it is now, it was likely even more so 53 years ago. This gentleman was bow hunting when Fred Bear was still considered a "trendsetter", or a nut!
One of my hunting buddies found a wallet in the woods that was lost in the 70s.The guy that lost it had ID that he was a fireman in a nearby town.He was still working at the same fire station when my buddy tracked him down and gave him his wallet back.
Closure, both good and sad.
I bet if he could tell us, he’d swear he wasn’t lost. Just turned around.
I can only hope it was a fast death the thought of laying for days in pain knowing the end was coming and no one would find him in time would have a nasty death ( not that any way to die are good but a quick death in some cases would be a blessing )
In 1988, I was elk hunting around Cody Wy and the main topic of conversation was the discovery of an aircraft that had gone down with all occupants several years earlier. You'd think an airplane wouldn't be that hard to notice but this one went in hard and sort of riveted into a large fissure in the rocks. The outfitter had what was left of a Weatherby rifle that had been found after sitting against a tree for ?? years. Apparently the owner set it against this big pine tree and couldn't find it. Big OOPS.
" that reminds me of the grizzly Adams movie where he finds the old dead frozen solid fellow with the note "I hope a white man finds me and my rifle it kilt the bar that kilt me its a good rifle "
I think that was Redford portraying Jeremiah Johnson. Good flick!
Yep, lots of ways to "cash it in" out in the outback.
Yes your correct when I was posting I thought I had the wrong movie
LOL............."............it kilt the bar that kilt me its a good rifle." That made me laugh.
Guess the two of them had a little "encounter"
Horse Plains Drifter10:03 am
Yep, lots of ways to "cash it in" out in the outback.
May be that Grizz wanted that moose more then he did.
More on the story
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2021/09/neighbors-of-missing-hunter-describe-how-their-familys-mystery-has-been-solved-53-years-later/
Thanks for the post dpmuel...
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I guess it wasn't D. B. Cooper then.
Salmon ID was Skeeter Skelton territory if I remember right.
What a story, glad the family has some closure.
You are thinking of Elmer Keith and Salmon, Idaho going together.
When we were searching for that A-10 that went down in CO on New York Peak- folks could not understand how hard it could be to find an airplane- that area is completely free from snow for about 15 days a year.
Places where there are no sidewalks, no street lights, critters are not tame and your body may NOT be returned to your next of kin. And what surprises people- some of those places are not really that distant.
Capt. Craig Button ,,,,,,,,, and the aircraft’s bombs were never found IIRC.
More from the family.
Mule
Thanks for the update, mule.