The father, Thomas Henderson, a 40-year-old civil engineer with a neatly trimmed mustache, told investigators he remembered the young man because he had paused to look at the family’s road map spread across the car hood, asked if they were heading toward Cook City, and when they said yes, told them the light up there in the early morning was extraordinary, and they should stop at the pull out above Sodabute Creek.
He seemed very knowledgeable, Thomas said, and enthusiastic. Really genuinely enthusiastic about the place. You don’t always meet people like that.
His daughter, 7-year-old Melissa Henderson, told investigators through her mother that the man had shown her his camera and let her look through the viewfinder at the treetops.Buy a New Camera
That was at approximately 7:09 in the morning. The Hendersons drove north. Daniel turned south.
The trail absorbed him within 40 yards. The lodgepole pines closing behind him the way water closes over a dropped stone.
