Mount Jefferson

Steven Van Pelt.

Just after 11:30 AM on July 23rd, the sheriff's office received information about a climber identified as Steven Van Pelt, 33, of Salem, who had fallen during his descent on Mount Jefferson.

Deputies learned the climber had fallen among extreme mountain terrain.

A witness described losing sight of him after he fell several hundred feet.

Hey, Ryan, this is Jeremiah.

It looks like you had a really interesting thing happen out there by, uh, Mount Jefferson.

Uh, feel free and share.

Yeah.

So in my-

Okay

... what I think, honestly, um, is with the, the, since that is kind of the crook of Mount Jefferson Wilderness, and in that area of the wilderness, not a lot of people go there.

The other part of it being a w- Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, um, there's not a lot of natives that go in that part of their reservation.

I think this Friday we are leaving on a camping trip.

So we're going to head up toward Mount Jefferson is the future hope, the goal for this weekend.

We're going to spend some time in the Mount Jefferson wilderness area, probably camp there for one night, and then head in and do some kayaking near Detroit Lake, and then head over to Silver Falls and try and work a little bit more on some things, you know, in that area.

So I've been to Silver Falls before.

It'll be good to go back.

I can only assume this lake is spring fed because that's the only time I've ever seen a lake this color other than this.

It makes me think about Table Lake close to Mount Jefferson.

And it was this perfect, like crisply clear, yet also very gorgeous greenish lake.

And it was like, oh, this now is making so much more sense because I'd only ever seen the first Green Lake, which, you know, kind of in the way that, you know, some alpine lakes do has a little bit of maybe like aqua or teal hint to it.

So we were kind of in the neighborhood of 7,000 feet.

And from this pass, it was once again, just beautiful views of both Broken Top to our south and the South Sister to our north.

It was a really neat plateau kind of at the top, and it reminded us a little bit of our time on the table near Mount Jefferson.

It's just like one of those very light volcanic rocks up on top.

Steven Van Pelt.

Just after 11:30 AM on July 23rd, the sheriff's office received information about a climber identified as Steven Van Pelt, 33, of Salem, who had fallen during his descent on Mount Jefferson.

Deputies learned the climber had fallen among extreme mountain terrain.

A witness described losing sight of him after he fell several hundred feet.

This witness' statement is the reason this started and ended as a recovery mission and not a search for a live and missing person.

There have been no updates or answers in this case since July when it all happened, and the National Park Service and other authorities have been very tight-lipped.

Mount Jefferson, which stands at 10,495 feet, is the second tallest mountain in Oregon after Mount Hood and the only major volcanic center in the U.S. portion of the Cascade Range that hasn't erupted in the past 10,000 years.

Ellis Bodine.

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This is a first-hand account of a camper describing a 24-hour stretch of strange Sasquatch activity near Detroit Lake on the west side of Mount Jefferson, Oregon, in October 2021.

I was nervous telling this, but I'm going to lay it out straight.

A close friend of mine is an elder from a local tribe.

Steven Van Pelt.

Just after 11:30 AM on July 23rd, the sheriff's office received information about a climber identified as Steven Van Pelt, 33, of Salem, who had fallen during his descent on Mount Jefferson.

Deputies learned the climber had fallen among extreme mountain terrain.

A witness described losing sight of him after he fell several hundred feet.

First up, Steven Van Pelt, the missing climber who vanished after he fell.

Mount Jefferson is the second tallest mountain in Oregon and the only major volcanic center in the United States portion of the Cascade Range that hasn't erupted in the past 10,000 years.

It stands at a majestic 10,495 feet tall and is part of the Cascade Range.

According to climbing aficionados, the mountain's summit pinnacle requires class 4 scrambling on very steep, usually ice-encrusted rock.

Steven Van Pelt seems to have fallen off the mountain and right off the face of the earth.

Let's delve a little deeper into the mysterious fall and the equally mysterious vanishing of Steven Van Pelt.

On Friday, July 23rd, 2021, at around 1145 in the morning, a 33-year-old Salem, Oregon resident named Steven Van Pelt was descending Mount Jefferson when he suddenly fell off the mountain and disappeared from the view of his climbing partner.

The Marion County Sheriff's Office received the initial report and responded along with Linn County deputies and the Linn County Search and Rescue Team.

stephen van pelt

just after 11 30 a.m on july 23rd the sheriff's office received information about a climber identified as stephen van pelt 33 of salem who had fallen during his descent on mount jefferson Deputies learned the climber had fallen among extreme mountain terrain.

A witness described losing sight of him after he fell several hundred feet.

The Sheriff's Office said resources, including six mountain rescue teams, searched for Stephen over the last several days among the extreme mountainous terrain with glacier drifts, falling rocks and debris.

The witness claimed to have seen Stephen fall, but lost sight of him after several hundred feet, as previously stated.

But if that's the case, whether they lost sight of him or not, they know where they had seen him and led the police and search teams to that exact spot almost immediately.

So why haven't they been able to find his remains? Or was there no sign of anyone at all ever falling in that area? disturbance of the land below whatsoever this witness's statement is the reason this started and ended as a recovery mission and not a search for a live and missing person been no updates or answers in this case since july when it all happened and the national park service and other authorities have been very tight-lipped mount jefferson which stands at 10 495 feet is the second tallest mountain in oregon after mount hood and the only major volcanic center in the u.s portion of the cascade range that hasn't erupted in the past 10 000 years ellis bodine july 15 2021 a four-year-old boy named ellis bodine is believed to have gone missing sometime in the evening hours while with his family in the sean lafitte national historical park and reserve in louisiana united states the child is believed to have fallen into the water of a murky and swampy canal his mother immediately dove in to try and save her son but to no avail as she seems to have lost sight of him almost immediately in the dirty water Authorities almost immediately began building a dam to start draining the canal in search of else remains, and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said the dam would take one day to be completed.

However, with the dam completed and after six days of relentless searching with no results, the underwater search was called off.