Missing hiker Samantha Sayers Vesper Peak Washington
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- Опубліковано 12 лис 2021
- I recently shared with everyone that I will be doing a monthly series about missing hikers who have yet to be found in the wilderness. This is a subject that has intrigued me for a very long time. My first episode is about Samantha Sayers. She was an experienced hiker who went missing while on a hike on Vesper Peak in Washington. My heart goes out to her friends and family. I pray that she will one day be found. I look forward to hearing your thoughts in the comments below.
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I grew up here, and I've hiked Vesper at least a dozen times. It's that good!
I believe it would be quite difficult to get unintentionally lost around there, especially for someone like Sam who's done the hike before. The hike goes up a basin in the South Fork Stillaguamish river watershed (you cross the river near the beginning), then through a very distinctive little Headlee Pass to the south side of Vesper in the Sultan River watershed.
The peak is shaped like a 3 sided pyramid, and you do a little traverse from that pass, past little Lake Elan, up the moderate SE slope. Any other direction would be clearly completely wrong. The North face is a sheer slab with rock climbs on it you couldn't mistake for a way to walk down.
The SW slope is also moderate, but would involve going the *very obviously* opposite direction from where you came (and indeed there was apparently a witness who saw her start to head this way from the summit, for whatever reason.)
While the trail sort of disappears in rock slabs near the summit, the way is very obvious, and if you went down the SW slope accidentally somehow you would instantly notice there's no Lake Elan (which is just below, and totally visible from, the summit), and no Headlee Pass, both of which are absolutely unmistakeable.
Even if she somehow went down the wrong SW slope, or failed to cross back over Headlee Pass, she'd end up in the Sultan River valley from where Spada Lake (the local drinking water reservoir) is just a few miles down a trail.
All this to say, getting lost would be extremely weird, and it's essentially impossible to get *that* lost (as you're either on obvious trail in the Stillaguamish valley, or just a couple miles from safety if you got lost in the Sultan valley).
The easiest thing to imagine is she fell in a snow moat somewhere, in which case no one would likely ever find her until someday she melts out. Getting kidnapped is hard to imagine, as there were other people on the trail that day and I dunno how you'd kidnap someone down a whole mountain back to the car. It would be disturbingly possible, tho, for someone to just wait at the parking lot and then force someone into their car at gunpoint.
Such a heartbreaking, and yet confounding, story
Thanks so much for your input! Knowing all that I get concerned that foul play could have been a possibility.
They searched 22 days. Longest search in history. Her boyfriend still looks for her. He found a lost hiker woman but he never found Sam.
Thank you for all your kind words sir!! RESPECT
In my area, san gabriel mountains, a hiker last year went missing on a trail a half mile from a road, that hundreds hike every day and she was seen at some points, then not. They searched for 4 weeks before calling it and she/the body, has never been found. I myself have over 40 years hiking these trails and have searched for her at points few realize are even there, cliffs, crevasses and even a old gold mine but nothing. Some are mysteries never to be solved???
Who was the hiker? I would love to read about it! It’s so tragic that she hasn’t been found. :(
I've hiked to the top of Vesper, although the trail is steep and exhausting it is very well marked and easy to follow. She would've had to go way off trail to get that lost. Very strange.
Super sad! :(
Late to the party here. Just did vesper two weekends in a row. Im not gonna say its impossible to get lost because both times I saw lost people. They found their way, but it happens.
Ive been up this peak 4 times!! People DO NOT go down this way! First off there is no damn trail and secondly this would have put her many many miles away from her car! This area in the cascades is a "hot spot" off missing people who completely vanish without a trace!! I believe 100% in my spirit that she was somehow influenced by an unseen force and at the last second she veered off the right path! Stop and think for a minute, if you were gonna abduct someone the best way to go about it is to isolate them first!! Understanding why she veered of the right path is the "Crux" to solving the case!! She is a 411 case! All the criteria fits this scenario!! This should scare the beejusus out of anyone who hikes alone! Hike with a partner and carry a personal locator beacon and a firearm if you feel comfortable doing so!! Samantha's case is beyond sad an sickening.....
It truly is baffling what happened to her. I haven’t seen any follow ups or new information in the past year about her. It’s so sad!
I cannot believe Sam, nor her remains have ever been found....
I live in Gold Bar Wa, if she went down the backside of Vesper peak toward Spada lake, there is nothing out there but wilderness no trails etc. she probably fell and died.
That would have been tragic. :(
I remember her boyfriend and her mom saying she would never go off trail, especially since she was alone. They could be wrong, or maybe she never would … until now. Maybe she did want to explore in a more isolated area. Maybe she’d gone down that part of the mountain in the past, successfully. It’s so hard to know. 😔
It’s such a mystery and I hope she is found!
People dont go down this way! She knew the way down, something influenced her to do so in order to isolate her!!
There's one other option. She hiked down that way to disappear from what ever was bothering her . And she is still alive and well ..
Sam's case and Maureen Kelly's case haunt me. Mainly cause there's only so many places to hide.
Great job man. I read about her after you mentioned this the other day. You included everything I read about. I don't think her boyfriend had anything to do with it either. If you read into that search group and some of the lead guys writings, that dude (the bf) is still hoping to find her even when he does the other searches with the group.
Thanks so much for the feedback! I admire her boyfriend’s dedication and determination to find her.
No, her boyfriend considered her dead a year after she went missing. Had a ceremony on the mountain and all. Her mom still searches.
Her moms cancer came back after that, I wonder if she is OK. I hope and pray for her mom and family.
I pray for her as well!
Altitude sickness and just went wrong way or fell down one of them shafts . We have them on our mtn unmarked and big ol hole striaght down
Thanks for the input Tom! Always appreciate your comments. Be careful on that mountain my friend!
@@vazsurvival7539 found out the hard way many yrs ago I got lucky big time
Я из России. Надо продолжать искать Сэм с южной стороны спуска.
I read she met someone up there and had lunch with him before heading down.
Thanks for mentioning that. I forgot to mention that piece in the video. Apparantly that person was checked out by the law and completely cleared as a suspect. I never saw any other details about that person who had lunch with her.
He was questioned as a suspect and the police found no evidence that he had harmed her or captured her.
If they checked everywhere they would have found her
You can walk past a body a few feet from you in that area and not spot them. It’s that rugged.
@@patriciamccormick9321 I don't care how rugged a place is. Dead people stink. A stink that permeates every pore of your body with the stench so foul it makes the unfamiliar evacuate their food, fluids, etc with such force it hurts we don't need to see bodies. We can smell them. So again I say, of that woman was there dead for days and days, searchers would have found her. Hikers would have found her. By smell alone.
Her boyfriend Kevin Dares had NOTHING to do with this!!
Her disappearing gave here boyfriend a new mission in life.
I would have done the same if it was my lady!
Kevin most certainly did not find Rachel, Bud Carr did. Also, Kevin does not look for missing people with the 49th Parallel, only when they were looking for Sam. A lot of your information is correct but a lot was very wrong. Sam was leaving Kevin and he made her disappear!
In the Seattle times the article stated that Kevin found her. I definitely appreciate the input. That’s why at the beginning of the video I didn’t claim to be an expert and also apologized for any misinformation. However the articles seem to make us believe that kevin found rachel lakoduk when he was searching with Bud carr who I happen to respect and admire. There is a picture of both of them at the site where rachel was found.
How do you know Sam was leaving Kevin?? Do you have inside knowledge?? If so please share!
Kevin absolutely did find Rachel! And he was working with Bud Carr helping Rachels cause as a form of pay back for the countless hours Bud spent helping Kevin scour Vesper peak looking for Sam! This guys info is correct and on point!!