Chinook Pass

[instrumental music] So I've been familiar with you and Chris's story really since, uh, like, 2017.

That's when I thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, and I'd heard about that there was a missing hiker, and, uh, but I realized when I joined your Facebook group was when I actually got to hike from White Pass to Chinook Pass, which wasn't until 2019.

Because I, I thru-hiked in 2017, but there was a fire closure area, uh, in that...

Uh, I can't remember the exact stretch, but so I didn't get to go fill that in until 2019.

Right.

Um, so that stretch of trail, 'cause, like us hikers always look at this road crossing to this road crossing, like food to food, basically.

Um, so it's 28 miles roughly from White Pass to Chinook Pass.

Um, now did he have plans-

Rampaging Bigfoot, 1965.

An anonymous lady said many years ago, as a girl, that a Bigfoot chased her and her companions down a hill at Raven's Roost in Chinook Pass, Washington.

In the same area in 1965, some kids were having a high school party, and one of them shot at a Bigfoot in the dark.

The Bigfoot apparently objected and tore the boy apart.

Which is also one of my 100 classics

... yes, at Chinook Pass.

But other than that, I...

Mount Rainier is beautiful.

But again, nothing was found.

Given the severity of the storm, had Chris had made it to Highway 410 at Chinook Pass, 28 miles from where he started at White Pass, he could have pulled out and sought refuge in town, albeit very cold, wet, and tired, as all hikers were that bailed off trail during

that

storm.

Since he didn't do so, though, it's believed he went off trail somewhere between White Pass and Chinook Pass, 28-mile section.

How far off trail is the question? Some consider any sightings from mid-October or later and any search areas north of Chinook Pass, like Blowout Mountain, to be bogus.

Did Chris just succumb to hypothermia on the PCT that October? As of this recording, we have no answers.

Next, we have Christopher Steven Sylvia.