Posted on 12/29/2024 8:44:25 AM PST by lowbridge
Two Portland men lost their lives while searching for Sasquatch in eastern Skamania County, Washington.
The Skamania County Communications Center received a report on December 25, 2024, around 1 a.m., about two overdue individuals who had planned to return home on December 24, 2024. When the pair did not return, a family member reported them missing and endangered.
A recently installed Flock camera helped locate the vehicle associated with the missing men, allowing the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Coordinator to find the vehicle off Oklahoma Road near Willard, Washington.
Over three days, more than 60 volunteer search and rescue personnel, including canine, drone, and ground teams, were mobilized. The United States Coast Guard from Astoria, Oregon, provided air support using F.L.I.R. technology.
After a challenging search through difficult terrain and harsh weather, the bodies of the 59-year-old and 37-year-old men were found in a heavily wooded area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Both deaths appear to be due to exposure, attributed to weather conditions and lack of preparedness.
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You can’t fool Bat Guano.
Those men were killed by Sasquatch!
Darwin award recipients.
LOL
They shoulda searched in Hawaii...
“Both deaths appear to be due to exposure, attributed to weather conditions and lack of preparedness.”
That’s what they want you to think.
On the upside, just before they froze to death they discovered D. B. Cooper’s lost treasure.
I used to live in Washington State and I know that area from hunting.
It’s about 100 miles inland from the Pacific on the Olympic peninsulat, and that areas best description is North Americas Rainforest. West of Wilard is THICK forest. Dense heavy vegetation, you can lose your bearings easily if you don’t stay focused. You don’t have a horizon, you don’t have the sky. What roads may be in there are mostly abandoned logging trails that haven’t seen mainetnece in 40-50+ years. You wonder if you’re still on the trail.
Those boys eneded up not even knowing how turned around and lost they really were. RIP.
(Never saw Sasquach, even brough him some jerky.)
Uh...I think this was closer to Mt Adams than the Olympic Rain Forest. It has been raining and snowing lots in the area, tho.
Despite deploying all of those resources, they didn't find Sasquatch either.
I think Oklahoma road only goes about 10-15 mils north of Wilard. I don’t know, been a few years. But even twords Adams, pretty thick. Add some harsh weather and not a good day.
Funny that a camera helped find them, but no camera ever picks up a decent image of such a mythological creature (which also manages to bury its scat and burn or bury its own dead so that no traces are ever found.)
How stupid they must have felt as the end closed in. Amazing the trouble booze can lead you to. RIP
Or Martha's Vineyard.
I used to live out there. GPNF is the great place to look. They’ll see you first tho. Deep in the forest, no wind, no animals, not even insects....
The men should have brought a GPS and better gear. Probably fell asleep in the cold and never woke up.
Park personnel lock the access rd. gates at sundown. I used to use the park entrance at the end of Washougal River rd. No Way would I stay there at night.
The odds of being killed by a Sqautch are low, but never zero.
I wondered where Skamania County is. In case you are wondering, too...
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