Flat Tops Wilderness Area

Once this note was discovered, Robert's disappearance was reported to the Mesa County Sheriff's Office who launched an official investigation.

Shortly after Robert disappeared, his white 1995 Chevrolet pickup truck was found abandoned at the Flat Tops Wilderness Area in Garfield County, Colorado.

There was no sign of Robert and the case went cold until August 16, 2002, when the Post Independent reported that Sergius had found his black backpack along the short trail between Jet Lake and the trailhead.

According to reports, the only thing missing from the bag was a float tube and Robert's family confirmed that he enjoyed fishing and hunting in that area.

Mm-hmm.

Um, I think some of the most, like, truly remote sections might've been, like, the Flat Tops Wilderness.

Mm-hmm.

Um, the West Elks as well.

Mm-hmm.

And so that really spooked me, and I just kinda booked it down the mountain after that guy.

Um, but then the really scary one was, uh, the Flat Tops Wilderness.

Mm.

Once this note was discovered, Robert's disappearance was reported to the Mesa County Sheriff's Office who launched an official investigation.

Shortly after Robert disappeared, his white 1995 Chevrolet pickup truck was found abandoned at the Flat Tops Wilderness Area in Garfield County, Colorado.

There was no sign of Robert and the case went cold until August 16, 2002, when the Post Independent reported that Sergius had found his black backpack along the short trail between Jet Lake and the trailhead.

According to reports, the only thing missing from the bag was a float tube and Robert's family confirmed that he enjoyed fishing and hunting in that area.

Verlene was peeling potatoes on a spruce stump when she heard two people talking down at the creek, and at that hour, the nearest two people she knew of were four miles up the mountain behind her.

She cooked for eleven seasons for an elk outfitter named Harlan who ran a camp in the Flat Tops Wilderness of Northwest Colorado.

It's wilderness in the legal sense, so there aren't any roads, and motors aren't allowed, and everything in that camp from the cookstove to the flour came nine miles up a trail on the backs of mules.

This was October of nineteen eighty-six during the first rifle season.