Update Carrie Morris WISH LIST First of all, I want to thank Kevin Fagan of the San Francisco Chronicle for his thoughtfully-rendered article (see SFGate for todays online version or the front page of the Chronicle for print version tomorrow.) He definitely took the time to get it, and for that I am very grateful. Steve would be pleased. You will see Johns name revealed in the Chronicle article. Our mystery lead searcher is really Jim Higgins. (He didnt want this blog to be about him, but the paper needed real names for real people!) So on to Todays Update: Another full day of tracking by our tireless team. (Well, actually, a couple of them were looking forward to nice hot baths to soak those weary hiking muscles!) Thank you to Jim, Peter and our trackers for working so diligently through a long, chilly day spent on those punishing slopes and climbing around in the rocky drainage (the creek that carries runoff from the surrounding peaks down toward the road and culverts below). Disappointingly, the prints became virtually unsearchable in the higher zones today. We feel there have just been one too many rain storms obscuring them. It is actually amazing that they have been visible this long after Steve passed through there. On a positive note, Jim and Peter found some possible sign near the water below through standard ground searching. Because tracks have become impossible to follow with any regularity at this point, and Winter is fast approaching, what we really need at this are Human Remains Detection dog teams to help us finish up the search. Our eyes just arent good enough anymore, so its time to bring in those excellent canine noses!! A team of five volunteer handlers & dogs stand at-the-ready (from Washington State and Montana). They could start as soon as the 26th, but we do need a way to get them here!! Since its ten bodies in all, a mid-size plane would be ideal (or 2 smaller ones). No luck so far finding volunteer pilots, so please pray that we would find this resource and ask around in your own personal networks. If we cant find volunteer resources, then we will have to fly them in commercially. You may notice I have increased our goal to reflect the added cost of getting all ten of these important team members here. (And as always, if we bring in more funds than we need to finish the search, we would be thrilled to use that money in service of other families going through similar situations, or possibly to begin a hiking safety education campaign in the schools.) So it was a disappointing day in the sense of seeing the clarity of tracks diminish, but hopeful at the same time, in that we may soon have just the right kind of help to finish up this never-ending process! Thank you to all of you who have donated so generously to help us bring Steve home. Every evening when I get back to the cabin and see your kind notes and evidence of your generosity here on GoFundMe, I feel that very palpable reality that I am far from alone in this... So thank you all! Carrie Morris
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 04:30:06 +0000
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