And this sharply narrows the field of initial theories. He doesn’t look like a man who was already in trouble at that moment.
He doesn’t look like a fugitive. He doesn’t look like someone who decided to disappear on an impulse.
We are looking at the man with a root, a plan, permission to leave and a promise to call his mother in the evening.
And that is why the question becomes even more disturbing. What could have happened next for such a person to disappear literally within the first few miles of his journey?
The weather at Tower Junction at 7:00 in the morning was clear with scattered high cirrus cloud and a sustained westerly [music] breeze of 8 mph.
A family of four from Sacramento, the Hendersons, was loading their station wagon in the parking area across from the Ranger contact station when Daniel came down the trail connector.
