Disappeared in Mt Rainier National Park. What Happened to Joe Wood?

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  • čas přidán 12. 09. 2024

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  • @IanP1963
    @IanP1963 Před 5 měsíci +47

    Hi Bryan hope you're well. I am a free man again at last, lve survived sepsis in late July 2023 and then having my big toe on my Left foot amputated in Dec 2023. We're off to Croatia and Montenegro tomorrow for a tour and stay vacation. It is the former Yugoslavia 😊

    • @kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934
      @kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Glad for you to be free from the medical issues. I haven’t achieved that level yet but intent is everything isn’t it? Have the best time ever on your trip and enjoy every moment. ✨

    • @LucyElizabeth83
      @LucyElizabeth83 Před 5 měsíci

      Have a wonderful time!

    • @stevestiffler9120
      @stevestiffler9120 Před 5 měsíci

      Enjoy The trip IAN. I recently had my finger amputated

  • @LosRikos
    @LosRikos Před 5 měsíci +27

    I have such deep respect for you brother. I found this channel 18 months ago and the way you articulate yourself, you're knowledge of SAR also piqued my interest in this type of stuff.
    Its really changing my life for the better and me and my father are mending our relationship by fishing and going out in the woods together.
    Bryan, you're also an empathwhich is a very admirable quality.. I can just tell the way you honor these people with your channel.
    You're channel will continue to grow and I got my entire family to start hiking and fishing and its just amazing.
    I want to thank you bro from the bottom of my heart.
    Ill always support you and any endeavors you are part of. ❤

  • @Firefy29
    @Firefy29 Před 5 měsíci +20

    Thank you, Bryan, as always, These are the type of cases that really make no sense.. for that amount of time to pass with nothing to be found.. Prayers for his family!

  • @wildlyunrulyadventures3942
    @wildlyunrulyadventures3942 Před 5 měsíci +8

    Thank you sharing this story as we are coming into warmer weather. I live on the foothills of the Cascades, about 30 minutes outside Mount Rainier, on the Northeast entrance at White River/Sunrise. I have been to this National Park more times that I could ever possibly count, in 40+ years. Spring is possibly the most dangerous time for tourists and inexperienced hikers. The weather can change in a heartbeat. The snow is melting and slick. It's avalanche season. The rivers are full and turbulent. Bears are coming out of hibernation. Oh yea, and Sasquatch. Every year it's (the NP) on the news in one way or another. Usually someone has gone missing. *Heads up!!* This year you will need reservations to enter the park. (I am so pissed about this!!)

  • @jasmine0354
    @jasmine0354 Před 5 měsíci +7

    Hi, Bryan. Thank you for your compassionate telling of this story. Sending prayers for Joe and his family

  • @karendobbs8153
    @karendobbs8153 Před 5 měsíci +12

    Thanks Bryan for keeping people informed of all these missing people. It’s very sad.

  • @Annex-x1g
    @Annex-x1g Před 5 měsíci +19

    Another Great Video!! Very Sad but very well presented. I hope his family will get answers someday soon!

  • @FinnishLapphund
    @FinnishLapphund Před 5 měsíci +7

    In one way it may seem like a sad subject for a video, but the more people who knows that he is out there, maybe the better odds for that something will be found one day. Love your videos just the way they are, and your narrating is so easy to listen to.

  • @kimkoh2191
    @kimkoh2191 Před 5 měsíci +8

    Thank you Bryan for sharing Joe’s story with everyone. I hope he’s found very soon. He sounds like a wonderful man with so much to look forward to ❤

    • @prarieborn6458
      @prarieborn6458 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Such a loss of a fine young man like Joe!. His education and talent as a Jouralist and editor would have made a difference in the world had he survived. He was drawn by The Mountain , its breathtaking beauty and mystery , but unaware of the danger of hiking alone.. The individual who met him on the trail provided a clue, perhaps, to what may have happened Joe told him he had been following foot prints in the snow, He could very easily have gotten lost or followed footprints off the edge of a ‘switchback”in the trail. and fallen into a ravine. Sharp turns on a trail are not easy to spot even in good weather. unless one is familiar with that trail. it is tragic that Joe did not turn back, when warned of heavier snow ahead. , and tragic that the other hiker did not try harder to discourage him. Perhaps Joe began to follow partially melted and distorted tracks of a game trail and got disoriented. What is always hard to understand in these cases is that no trace of his clothing or book or binoculars was ever found and even dogs could not pick up a scent. There ARE bears around The Mountain , especially in the tourist areas, the picnic and camping sites and the wild flower meadows.. And the Bears are bold and unafraid of people Our family camped at Paradise one summer, I slept in a tent with my year old baby, and my Men-folk sat up around the campfire all night. Deep in the night I heard a big nose sniffing all around the edge of the tent. I peeked out a crack and saw the bear, it was between me in the tent and the fire and the men. The men saw it but they made no move or shout..and it ambled on through the campground. All the food was locked inside the vehicles, but I had the baby’s bottle with milk in the tent. So there are plenty of bears around, and when Joe was up there, they may have been coming out of hibernation and hungry….just a thought. I hope someday Joe will be found for his family’s peace of mind. ❤

  • @bc4198
    @bc4198 Před 4 dny +1

    Reminded me of Kevin Lafleur, disappeared on Mt. Baker in 2008, and never found as far as I know. My grandpa used to climb on Rainier a lot, and once lost an ice axe in a lower crevasse. Months later, he found the axe in the meadow below, once the snows had melted away. I've always remembered that, in cases like these. It says to me that Joe very plausibly could have fallen in a stream with a weak snow bridge, and washed away downstream; and that Kevin - on an early season summit attempt - most likely made it high enough to get stuck in a permanent glacier, where he might never melt out.

  • @alliemorgan4368
    @alliemorgan4368 Před 5 měsíci +9

    I love this channel. You have such a soothing voice and you seem like you genuinely care about these missing people ❤

  • @teresadvorak6145
    @teresadvorak6145 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Thanks Bryan. I think there should have been more questions asked to the last two People who saw Joe. Not blamming them but maybe one of them knew something. 🤔 i wonder if that P Ranger is still alive too 🤔........

  • @noelbgood8845
    @noelbgood8845 Před 5 měsíci +9

    Thanks for the upload we all appreciate your work Bryan!!

    • @bawattsyl
      @bawattsyl  Před 5 měsíci +3

      Thank you for watching and your kind feedback🙏

  • @Duckling08
    @Duckling08 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Crazy, I just did the Mildred point hike in October 2023. It's super beautiful up there, but lots of steep cliffs.

  • @helenormsby474
    @helenormsby474 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Hi Brian, always looking forward to hearing from you.

  • @jimhenderson387
    @jimhenderson387 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Bryan. So many mysteries...

  • @aazhie
    @aazhie Před 5 měsíci +2

    thank you, as always. I hope Joe's loved ones can find some answers soon

  • @audibjornsson6107
    @audibjornsson6107 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Born and raised at the base of Mt.Rainer and I can tell you one thing the weather can change in a matter of minutes. I've seen her go from sunny to a flat out snow storm in minutes. Be careful up there she keeps her secrets well hidden.
    Thank you

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Well presented as always⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

  • @summerrain7956
    @summerrain7956 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Thank you Bryan for all the research and time you put into these videos. We all need to do our part to help find these folks!!

  • @witchmouth
    @witchmouth Před 5 měsíci +2

    Hi Bryan. I just watched a video of yours for the first time. I think you are very well spoken, and have a pleasant voice. You also treat your subject with great respect, and seem careful not to criticize for any possible mistakes made by the subject. You are a good storyteller and I wish you great success.

  • @timberdaniels7317
    @timberdaniels7317 Před 5 měsíci +5

    Hi Bryan!
    Thank you for the video and bringing awareness to Joe's story. It's really sad what happened to him and I pray that they will be able to find him so he can be reunited with his family. I hope you're doing okay. Continued prayers for you and your family 🙏
    Timber

    • @bawattsyl
      @bawattsyl  Před 5 měsíci +3

      Thank you! I appreciate your kind words and feedback! And yes I agree I hope Joe's family will get some kind of answer someday soon🙏 I hope you are doing well, it's been crazy busy here but thank you as always for ask your support🙏🙏

    • @timberdaniels7317
      @timberdaniels7317 Před 5 měsíci +1

      You're welcome! I'm doing okay, thank you. I bet you're crazy busy but I hope you will be able to relax as well. God bless you 🙏

  • @frisk151
    @frisk151 Před 5 měsíci +8

    Mother nature does not care about your age.. Your education... Even you experience.. You break the rules and she will break you and by proxy, your loved ones... I think complacency is one of the larger reasons why people die in the "woods" or on mountains.. The most interesting thing on this one is the fact (as far as I know) that nothing has ever been found.. Bones or cloths.. It isn't like he was out in the middle of one of Alaska's most remote parks..

    • @teresadvorak6145
      @teresadvorak6145 Před 5 měsíci +3

      It's not always Mother Nature. There are other things at play that we don't understand 😮...

    • @frisk151
      @frisk151 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@teresadvorak6145 Ahhh..Do you mean "aliens", "cryptids" or "bigfoot"? While I do believe in intelligent life far far out in space.. The others are a silly joke.. And, likely aliens as well in this spec of time compared to the age of the universe..

    • @prarieborn6458
      @prarieborn6458 Před 5 měsíci

      @@frisk151 You never had an encounter wit sasquatch :)

  • @shupp7547
    @shupp7547 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Thank you for sharing this information. Another place people don't realize that they can get lost and never found is Hawaii. We have had many on Maui. It is so tragic and the people here go all out to find these people but they are not always found.

  • @mngirl5437
    @mngirl5437 Před 5 měsíci +2

    This is a beautiful place to visit. I have great memories of hikes there. I'm sorry he wasn't found yet 😢

  • @sewmorelove
    @sewmorelove Před 5 měsíci +2

    Wow. Such a sad story. Thanks for sharing it with us. ❤

  • @mollylittlewolf9192
    @mollylittlewolf9192 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Blessings to you Bryan. I hope you are doing good. 🙏❤

  • @josephsharpe2669
    @josephsharpe2669 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Thank you for telling these people's stories

    • @bawattsyl
      @bawattsyl  Před 5 měsíci +1

      Thank you for watching!

  • @ellenhalpern1882
    @ellenhalpern1882 Před 5 měsíci

    Thanks, Bryan, for keeping us informed

  • @yolandagarcia-qt1le
    @yolandagarcia-qt1le Před 5 měsíci +2

    Hello Bryan, God bless you!
    My prayers for Joe and his family

  • @PhilAndersonOutside
    @PhilAndersonOutside Před 5 měsíci

    Thanks for sharing this. I've tried re-tracing Joe Wood's path and studied his disappearance, and may try to go back again this year. Not to find his body, but gain a better grasp on what could have happened to him. A key factor for everyone to know is this area of the park is quite rugged. Aside from the Comet Falls trail (Rampart Ridge to Mildred Point) no one every travels off-trail there, it's virtually impossible. Very steep forested and rocky cliffs on each side, and enormous drainage of Pyramid Creek from Pyramid and Kautz Glaciers.

  • @PotooBurd
    @PotooBurd Před 5 měsíci +2

    This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌

  • @sistadebra1425
    @sistadebra1425 Před 5 měsíci

    Thanks so much Bryan. Have a great weekend. God bless! 😊

  • @lindasd7591
    @lindasd7591 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Hi Bryan, I hope you are doing well. Thk you for all that you do! You are doing an important work!

    • @bawattsyl
      @bawattsyl  Před 5 měsíci +1

      Thank you! I appreciate that! I'm going to have to have surgery on my left hand after I saved that one man from the Clift. But that's ok. I think it's our natural instinct to protect others. Sadly there are bad guys out there. Anyway thank you for your support and kind words🙏

  • @cynthiadriver9781
    @cynthiadriver9781 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Hi Brian, hope youre doing better, it soundsnlike it in your voice !! You usually things turn up with time and it still astounds me how items and people themselves are discovered in such vast wilderness. Prayers being answered. I enjoy your format as there are no distractions involved. However maybe, (a suggestion) at rhe end of your videos you could show up with your special message on screen. When give uodates on give aways or your calender stuff that way qe can build a relationship with you..or your health updates etc..we love you, take care❤

  • @Chasing70
    @Chasing70 Před 5 měsíci

    Thank you Bryan! You are the best story teller.😊

  • @catherinec6485
    @catherinec6485 Před 5 měsíci

    Great video, Bryan. Thanks for the work on the details for the cases you cover.

  • @celitacantrill10
    @celitacantrill10 Před 5 měsíci

    I enjoy your content, Bryan . Thank you. I do enjoy seeing clips here and there to explain the story. Have a good evening .

  • @Myrdden71
    @Myrdden71 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Ranier is beautiful, but vast. I hope they do find information about this man's fate at some point.

  • @dlm1166
    @dlm1166 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Thank you Bryan!

  • @JillForJesus
    @JillForJesus Před 5 měsíci +1

    thank you. prayers and blessings too all from nashville tennessee.......

  • @marilynn76
    @marilynn76 Před 5 měsíci

    I grew up near Mt. Rainier and went on numerous hikes and camping trips there throughout my childhood. I remember a couple of times encountering snow and ice in the middle of summer. This is so sad. ❤

  • @sheripacori2097
    @sheripacori2097 Před 5 měsíci +3

    I hear of so many people will go on a hike without water, food or jacket. Very sad.

  • @user-cv3ef1dn3g
    @user-cv3ef1dn3g Před 5 měsíci

    First, I want to thank you for mentioning how incredibly snowy it was in the Washington mountains in 1999. I still remember that year as the one where I didn't have a successful hike until late September (just before the snow started falling again).
    I was on Mount Rainier just days after Joe went missing and in the same area. The posters of him were everywhere. The amount of snow made the hike I had planned with my friend impossible.
    I thought he would be found in the summer of 2000 (since the snow never melted in the summer of 1999) but I'm guessing he was just far enough off trail to never find him or his belongings.

  • @stormysmom222
    @stormysmom222 Před 5 měsíci +2

    He simply walked into a portal.

  • @dorlajacobson3077
    @dorlajacobson3077 Před 5 měsíci

    Thank you for another informative video.

  • @corselleirish1276
    @corselleirish1276 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Love your videos

  • @tlm19628
    @tlm19628 Před 5 měsíci +1

    thank you Bryan 🫶🏼✌🏼

  • @kaciedill8742
    @kaciedill8742 Před 5 měsíci

    I love your format.

  • @coleensouther7152
    @coleensouther7152 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Bryan where can I see the calanders?

    • @bawattsyl
      @bawattsyl  Před 5 měsíci +3

      Hi there, it's just one calendar that's made up of a few of my adventures but mostly off viewer submitted pictures from all over! I have some pictures of it in a few videos back, but if you'd like, you can email me (in the description) and I'll send you some pics of it. Thank you for watching🙏

  • @Houndini
    @Houndini Před 5 měsíci +1

    You always go very well prepared for the worst with supplies. Extra food to a very dependable way to make fire. Dryer lint from your house dryer in a zip lock baggie makes excellent fire starter. Extra warm clothes plenty Gateraid & clean safe drinking water. Nice sleeping bag for that season. I spent most all my weekends from late 1970’s to the present back in woods from native trout Fishing to Hunting. That what got myself invited to join Search & Rescue teams. I knew bunch of local areas very good & 1 day A team asked myself & a friend if we seen a group of people? Yes yesterday. We look I think I might know where they might be at ? If they took a wrong turn at and you can’t get them vehicles back in there & it’s miles long walk & very rough. It will take myself about 2 hour’s to swap vehicles & I will be back in here searching Went home fast swapped my 4x4 highboy Tk to my Jeep CJ 5 filled it full of gas & extra 5 gallons and found them people within 2 & 1/2 hours. Their vehicle was broke down after dark & lost their bearings on what direction to drive or walk and drove into a road that had slide off. By time Search & Rescue came back by a spot I told them I meet them at in about 4 hours we all was full of eating Cheeseburgers off a charcoal grill. Team members even got to eat up our leftovers. Got them people out safely except the owner of vehicle & we went back to pull the vehicle back to a place where a wrecker roll back could load it up that Monday. I had to swap vehicles again Jeeps not much of a pulling vehicle. Get about Dark I always have a base camp set up waiting & vehicle very close by just in case with a supply of good dry wood. It’s very confusing & can be very dangerous after dark. A GPS system & Satellite Phone is lifesaver now days. Back in them days we didn’t have all them extra’s. Lot people got lost. That how I got started meeting them Search & Rescue groups. A good radio with repeaters programed into it is an other very handy tool.

  • @bcbconklin
    @bcbconklin Před 5 měsíci

    Very strange, indeed!! As the years go by, isn't something usually found, but perhaps not identified as belonging to the missing from decades ago??

  • @jedgarren2901
    @jedgarren2901 Před 5 měsíci

    I am a back country guide in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I am a native of Townsend,Tennessee,I grew up in the Appalachian backcountry. All too often,I see tourists set off into the Appalachian backcountry with no knowledge and zero experience,Often they can get into trouble quickly. I tell day hikers to always carry enough kit to get them through a night in an emergency situation.
    Chances are,you need your emergency kit,however,if you DO need it,It could me the difference between life and death.

  • @friendlyman9032
    @friendlyman9032 Před 5 měsíci

    I am sure professional searchers have thought of this...yet I am thinking he is in a tree way high up..a pine tree..if I were searching all these years later....I would look up in the trees in the area...this is the first time I found your channel.

  • @The_ZeroLine
    @The_ZeroLine Před 5 měsíci

    Ed Wood is a real loss to humanity. Incredibly sad.

  • @melodymerritt8419
    @melodymerritt8419 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Yeah....you are a good looking guy. We would love to see you in front of the cameral!!!

  • @Alanoffer
    @Alanoffer Před 5 měsíci

    I’m so surprised that lone walkers in this day and age aren’t advised carry a simple GPS device , which would make it very simple to track anyone that gets into difficulty

  • @Verdeangela12
    @Verdeangela12 Před 3 měsíci

    Disappeared without a trace. So odd.

  • @kimmccabe1422
    @kimmccabe1422 Před 5 měsíci

    Hiking on a mountain in a t shirt, no way prepared, is like flipping a coin. Heads i make it, tails i dont. Imagine what he cld have written if he didnt make such a bad decision that day. With Mother Nature, Mr. Woods 🙏

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 Před 5 měsíci +1

    💔

  • @joannebonin5757
    @joannebonin5757 Před 5 měsíci

    ty Brian

  • @bradengleman4781
    @bradengleman4781 Před 5 měsíci

    He was ill equipped for a hike, did not check the weather, needed better clothes, spur of the moment decision. It will always end up like this. He had no business out there.

  • @jenna9006
    @jenna9006 Před 5 měsíci +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @polymathperspective
    @polymathperspective Před 5 měsíci

    There is a huge pattern of this mountain getting rid of people who don’t know there is a glacier with crevasses. Be walking along and suddenly you fall through the ground. That’s how they are vanishing and everything on their person. It will keep happening too to people who show up and have no idea the dangers. Simple hike and vanishes. Over a dozen times it’s happened on this mountain.

  • @surrealistgirlx
    @surrealistgirlx Před 5 měsíci

    Please comment, like and subscribe. Brian it would be great to have you appear in the videos.

  • @janisoconnor6881
    @janisoconnor6881 Před 5 měsíci

    I wonder Bryan if Mr Joe knowing his heart problem either walked in to the area not really afraid if anything life threatening happened or he strictly went in there ready to die. Nobody said anything about his mental state after having his heart episode.

  • @FoneStar78
    @FoneStar78 Před 5 měsíci +2

    it was 1999 and most people didn't have cell phones? Um... what?

    • @prarieborn6458
      @prarieborn6458 Před 5 měsíci

      i think it was before ‘pre paid cellular”. i had a phone, supplied by my employer but the monthly cost was deducted from my pay check. i was a visiting nurse, on the road all day. Before the phone we carried pagers, We would have to stop and find a phone to call in when the pager went off.., that was in the mid ‘90’s, By the Turn of the Century we had phones, but they were like health insurance, expensive & unobtainable for most unless provided by an employer. If i recall, pre paid phoes came out in the early 2000’s ? Seems like it was a life-time ago, but only 20 + yrs.

    • @tyarnold4088
      @tyarnold4088 Před 5 měsíci

      I worked at US Cellular and I didn't even have a cell phone until 2001. I started working there 1997. Most people didn't have cell phones in 1999. It was like 50 dollars for 50 minutes back then. Mostly business people and people wanting a phone for safety.

    • @wmluna381
      @wmluna381 Před 5 měsíci

      Yeah, I actually got my first cellphone in 1999. It was a Big Deal as a regular working person working an hourly job. I would say by mid-2000's everyone pretty much had them.

  • @MissLady-pq4hc
    @MissLady-pq4hc Před 5 měsíci

    🙏🙏🙏

  • @washburnb1
    @washburnb1 Před 5 měsíci

    Slipped off trail and into tree well. He will be found some day.

  • @Ez77-f9i
    @Ez77-f9i Před 5 měsíci

    People are being stacked and hunted by this other worldly supernatural phenomenon / entities.
    Phenomenon that, can and does materializes in physical form.
    It poses total danger to humans.
    It calls it self the predator and refers to humans as the prey.

  • @teresacorrigan3076
    @teresacorrigan3076 Před 5 měsíci

    🇨🇦thank you. I was just wondering what it is like to disappear.

  • @decafmocha211
    @decafmocha211 Před 5 měsíci

    Carry a personal locater beacon and a Sat phone. Lot of dangerous animals also...carry a gun. Better yet don't hike alone.

  • @bryanbulmer6716
    @bryanbulmer6716 Před 5 měsíci

    Maybe it was a ufo

  • @everybodyyogastudio212
    @everybodyyogastudio212 Před 5 měsíci +1

    If youre up for it, id love you see you talking in front of the camera! I think it would help viewers connect with you and these stories a bit more rather than listening to a seemingly disembodied voice floating around the mic 🗣️👅🤪😂

  • @kaitli5279
    @kaitli5279 Před 4 měsíci

    *Promo sm*

  • @allenantonio4389
    @allenantonio4389 Před 3 měsíci

    Another Commie Gone..Bye

  • @zoeyrochellezhombie829
    @zoeyrochellezhombie829 Před 2 měsíci

    Is it a goal to say 'amazing' multiple times in every video?
    I will stop watching if this becomes a vanity channel. You report missing people, not yourself.

  • @GROW_YOUTUBE_VIEWS_m021
    @GROW_YOUTUBE_VIEWS_m021 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Your attention to detail in your videos is impressive!