every now and again I'll find a story
that is just really upsetting to me now
obviously a lot of the stories that I
cover are all you know quite distressing
but today's story which is about a
missing hiker named Mike
Turner uh it just really upset me it
actually made it really hard to film
this episode um not making that up it's
just I was too emotional as I told it uh
so consider this your warning that I
personally believe this is a very
upsetting story but an important story
that we would not be covering if there
wasn't some real weight behind it and I
think the moral of this story ultimately
is you really need to treasure your
family while they're still around and
you'll see what I mean when you hear the
rest of this story it's just
heartbreaking but for those of you who
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story on the afternoon of August 2nd
1998 a 48-year-old 6' 6in tall hiker
named Mike Turner stopped for a moment
and took his bottle out of his backpack
and took a sip Mike was standing in a
cluster of trees on the side of this
mountain about 11,000 ft up inside of an
area in Wyoming called the Fitzpatrick
Wilderness the Fitzpatrick Wilderness is
easily one of the most visually striking
places in the entire world it's like all
of the extremes of nature kind of
collided together in this one place you
have these massive you know 13,000 ft
tall snow covered mountain peaks you
have glaciers and then right below them
right at the base of these huge
mountains are all these lush green
fields full of tall grass and flowers
and animals running around and little
streams and lakes I mean it's absolutely
picturesque in fact some of the pictures
of this area They look fake they're so
ridiculous but the real reason the
Fitzpatrick Wilderness was known as this
unbelievably beautiful place was because
really it went kind of Untouched by
people because it was so hard to get to
I mean basically the only people who
stepped foot in this very surreal
landscape were really experien Outdoors
people like Mike Turner because it took
a lot of knowhow just to get to this
area and to survive in this area this is
a very very rugged place but Mike Turner
was not content just going to the
Fitzpatrick Wilderness he really wanted
to experience the true nature of this
area and so what he was doing while he
was out there was hiking off Trail and
so he's in this totally remote place
hiking around in an area that was not
even marked on a map now to anybody who
has not done any compass and map
navigating out in the wild this might
seem totally Reckless and to a degree it
sort of is but it's something that
people totally have a knack for I can
speak from my own experience when I was
in the military we did a lot of compass
and map navigating like in the back
country in Alaska and also in California
and I was terrible at it but I can tell
you some of my classmates definitely had
sort of like an innate skill to
understand where they were in
relationship to terrain features and
then if you combine that with prop for
training and experience I mean these
guys got really good at just being able
to navigate with a map and compass and
so Mike was one of those people that
really was an excellent Navigator and so
walking off Trail like this in such a
remote place was sort of routine for him
now Mike was not some full-time
Adventurer this was something he did
that was sort of a passion for him his
job was he was a reverend at a Christian
Church in Idaho and he had been for 10
years and Mike loved being a reverend he
loved his congregation and you know his
wife Diane and his three kids he had two
daughters and a son they were all super
involved in the church I mean it was a
great thing but at the same time being a
reverend was a lot of work a lot of
responsibility and a lot of stress and a
way that Mike had found to kind of cope
with that growing stress of being a
reverend was to go out hiking he
actually found sort of ironically that
when he was out in nature hiking he felt
closer to God than when he was inside of
his church preaching and it was because
he sort of looked at the the world as
this Grand gift from God and imagine
being in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness
looking at this unbelievable terrain I
mean it looks like you know God made
this I mean who else could this is so
strikingly beautiful and so with that as
context on this particular day that Mike
had stopped to sip water 11,000 ft up on
this mountain side this was actually the
fourth day of a 9-day pre-planned solo
hike through this Wilderness that Mike
had been planning out for over a year
now even though Mike was a very skilled
hiker and Backpacker and survivalist he
knew doing any sort of really long solo
hike came with a whole bunch of risks
that only really come if you're solo
hiking the biggest risk being that if
you get into trouble when you're out on
a solo hike well you're all alone so you
better have a really good plan for what
you're going to do if you get into
trouble and so Mike had come up with a
great plan he had spent that whole year
mapping out this off tril path he was
going to take over these N9 days it was
a 60m trip through the Fitzpatrick
Wilderness and he drew out basically
exactly where he expected to go on a map
and he gave that map with all the
different coordinates and exactly where
he'd be on each day to his wife who also
was a very enthusiastic hiker and he
told her on the ninth day you're going
to meet me at this spot at the end of
the 60 mies at noon on this 9th day
right here and I will meet you there and
you can take me home however that plan
had changed on that fourth day as Mike
was sipping his water on the mountain
side and only Mike knew it because he
had no way to communicate back to his
friends and family cell phones were very
primitive at the time so he couldn't
just call somebody I mean basically if
he deviated his plan he was the only one
who would know now the reason why Mike
on the fourth day of this n-day trip
decided to alter his course made a lot
of sense so even though Mike was
technically solo hiking he was not
actually alone with him was the family
dog named Andy who was a very
good-natured black lab mix Who Loved
going hiking and over the course of the
previous day and then into this fourth
day he and Andy had been up at elevation
at about 13,000 ft walking on some Icy
parts of the mountain and Andy's Paws
were getting really raw from kind of
walking on the jagged ice and that day
on the fourth day Mike had noticed Andy
was whimpering and struggling to keep up
when normally Andy was super energetic
and running all around and he knew that
you know my course that I'm supposed to
be going on for the next few days is
going to be going all through these
mountains with all this ice and I don't
think Andy can keep up he's not going to
be able to do it and so he had decided
to Sid skirt the mountains to avoid the
ice and even though this path was
definitely going to take him a little
bit longer it would still bring him to
the same destination to that same pickup
spot where his wife and his family would
be waiting for him now Mike understood
that by deviating his route Not only
would his family not know like they
would have no idea where he was but also
this secondary route he'd be taking to
save Andy's Paws was going to take a
little bit longer than the intended
course would take and so he knew he was
not going to be there at the time he
said he would so he was not going to be
there at noon on the 9th day it was
going to be maybe the 10th day or Beyond
but Mike had planned for this
contingency he had brought extra
supplies specifically if he had to
extend his journey and so he felt
confident that even though this was a
big risk you know to take this path that
nobody knows he's on he felt he could do
it with no problems and so after Mike
finished taking a sip of his water he
pulled a bowl from his pack that was for
Andy and he poured some water in and he
placed it on the ground and Andy kind of
made his way over and began lapping at
the water and as he did Mike looked down
and saw Andy's tail wagging happily and
Mike felt confident you know seeing how
much better his dog was already doing
that this was definitely the right
decision taking the secondary route was
definitely the way to go but as Mike
waited for his dog to finish drinking
Andy suddenly stopped and then lifted
his head up with his ears perked up like
he had sent something and then before
Mike could stop him Andy just took off
running into the trees and disappear
appeared now Andy was a playful dog that
periodically kind of ran around on the
hikes like this but remember Mike is out
in the back country and he's deviated
his path he needs to be really sure of
where he is he can't afford to make
mistakes here and if Andy just goes
Rogue and he has to go chase after him
the opportunity to get turned around or
lost or maybe come in contact with some
big Predator that maybe Andy has sensed
were pretty high and so Mike grabbed the
bowl and took off running into the trees
after Andy and after going into those
trees he emerged on the other side Mike
did and suddenly he was hit with this
incredible View kind of looking down
towards this Lake and there was this
huge clearing on the side of the
mountain that was filled with these huge
Boulders like Boulders the size of small
cars and they were everywhere basically
the mountain as it eroded chunks of rock
were rolling down into this clearing
that was sort of at a slant down towards
this Lake and it just filled the entire
clearing with boulders to the point
where you really couldn't actually Walk
On Solid Ground the only way to get from
where Mike was and where Andy was
because at this point he could see his
dog his dog was making his way towards
the lake clearly that's what Andy had
sensed the lake and he was going to get
a drink or something and so Mike knew to
get to his dog he would basically have
to climb onto the boulders and jump from
rock to rock all the way to his dog and
so Mike tried calling for Andy one more
time to stop and come back but Andy was
on his own program going towards the
lake and so resigned to the situation
Mike climbed on top of the first Boulder
and began jumping Boulder to Boulder in
the direction of his dog one week later
on the afternoon of August 9th Mike's
wife Diane along with her three kids and
some family friends stood at the start
of a trail called the Big Sandy Trail
which was the designated meeting spot
where Mike said he would meet his family
at the end of this 9-day journey and as
Diane stood there at this meeting place
she kept anxiously checking her watch
Mike was late and not just a few minutes
late he was a full 24 hours late Mike
was supposed to be there on the 8th at
noon and now it's the 9th and he's still
not here but remember Mike is a guy that
did stuff like this fairly regularly he
was very competent out in the wild and
everybody knew when he went off on this
journey that of course there was some
variability to when he would actually
arrive at the meeting place you know
despite Mike saying I'll be there on the
8th at noon Diane and her friends and
family all sort of felt like well I hope
he's there at noon but realistically he
might be you know several hours or maybe
even a day late and that's okay and so
the day before when he didn't show up at
noon people were anxious but they were
okay now 24 hours later and still Mike
has not shown up there's no trace of him
Diane and our kids and the family
friends they were starting to worry and
in fact before Mike left on this trip he
told Diane that if for some reason he
does not show up on the 9th so 24 hours
after he said he would be there and it's
past 4:00 on the nth this is the trigger
point that Diane should call the
authorities and assume something is
wrong and send out a search party and so
dianae is checking her watch on the 9th
and soon enough it's 400 p.m. Mike's not
here 4:05 410 4:15 still no mic and even
though she knew her husband said now
it's time go get the authorities she
just couldn't bring herself to do it she
felt like it's such a huge to-do if you
get a search party organized out here I
mean that's a massive effort super
expensive and she felt like the second
she told authorities that like Mike
would come walking out of the Wilderness
with a big story to tell and a big
apology for being late and so she
convinced herself that you know what
give him one more day I'm sure he's
bound to show up but the next day on the
10th when still there was no sign of
Mike that morning Diane did go to the
authorities and she reported Mike
missing and just as she expected a
massive search was launched for Mike but
you need to keep in mind here that again
Diane and the Searchers and everybody
besides Mike has no idea that he has
aled the path he was on and they're
going to be searching this massive
expanse of wilderness that even with the
best of conditions knowing exactly where
someone is on their route I mean it's so
hard to find people out here I mean it's
totally rugged things are obscured from
view from the air from the Land There
are areas you can't even get to there's
Predators out there I mean this is a
dangerous thing to be doing and again
they don't know he's not even on that
path anymore he's deviated and so
despite helicopters in the air you know
horseback teams out in force hundreds of
volunteers combing the area looking for
Mike nobody found a trace of him and
after 2 weeks went by with this huge
search producing nothing they finally
had to call it off and so of course you
know Mike's family is just unbelievably
devastated they have no idea what's
happened to
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there 5 days later so 5 days after the
end of the official search we're now at
August 28th at this point a couple of
Backpackers were hiking through an area
in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness that was
actually about 17 Mi away from the last
known sighting of Mike Turner now that
was not when he went through the trees
and saw the boulders this was around the
time Mike literally began the 9-day epic
journey somebody had seen him in one
area and so where these two Backpackers
are is about 17 miles away from there
and so these two Backpackers they were
aware that Mike Turner was missing
because they were fly up all over the
place around the outside of the
Fitzpatrick Wilderness at the beginning
of all the trail heads and in town and
all over the place so they were aware of
this aware that Mike was missing and his
dog was missing and as they're just
sitting there taking a break this
totally emaciated ragged looking black
lab came out of the tree line whimpering
and looking like it was on its last legs
it was Andy and right away these
Backpackers knew that's the missing dog
and so they lured the dog to them with
granola bars and Andy came up and he ate
they gave him water and just so you know
Andy would survive and make a full
recovery and so after these Backpackers
have Andy in their possession they
immediately contacted authorities who
then got in touch with Mike's family and
said hey we found Andy and so you can
imagine the absolute roller coaster of
emotion Mike Turner's family is going
through now that they hear Andy is okay
Andy's come out of the forest they're
thinking oh my goodness maybe Mike is
okay too maybe Andy can lead us back to
where Mike is Mike is this totally
skilled survivalist he's got to be alive
out there and so after discovering Andy
a second search was launched using Andy
as the guide dog they basically went to
that spot where the Backpackers found
him and basically Andy's family and some
other volunteers allowed Andy to lead
them back into the Wilderness hoping it
would lead them to Mike and so as this
new search began with Andy leading the
way a separate Backpacker who we will
call Brian just for the sake of the
story that's not his name but we're
going to call him Brian he was hiking
through a SE of the Fitzpatrick
Wilderness not near where Andy was this
is a separate area and Brian he was not
involved in looking for Mike Turner but
he was aware that Mike was missing
because again he had seen all the
missing person Flyers he had seen the
news and when he began his own hike Into
the Wilderness he had seen at the start
of his own trail head a big flyer with a
picture of Mike Turner and his dog
saying he was missing so Brian's aware
of Mike Turner's absence but he's just
going on his own hike Into the
Wilderness and after a few days of solo
hiking his way into this totally rugged
expanse he eventually reaches this kind
of dense cluster of trees about 11,000
ft up on the side of a mountain and he
walks through those trees and when he
emerges on the other side out in front
of him sloping down to a lake is this
unbelievable Boulder Field that
practically takes his breath away but
that was not the thing that really got
his attention instead as he's taking in
these Boulders and this unbelievable
view of the mountains in the distance
and this Lake he noticed there was a man
sitting on a rock fairly far across this
boulderfield with his back to Brian just
staring at the lake now remember this is
like the middle of nowhere and Brian
certainly was not expecting to come
across any other person on this journey
and so naturally he thought okay I need
to go up and make sure this guy is okay
or if nothing else I want to talk to him
I mean this is a very rare thing to come
in contact with other people out here
and so Brian began walking towards the
guy to see what was going on well that
man was the missing hiker Mike Turner
and my goodness did Mike Turner have a
story to tell but to understand Mike's
story we need to go back 29 days to the
point when Andy the dog had taken off
running from Mike and he had gone into
the Boulder Field and Mike had emerged
through those trees and seen the
boulders he seen his dog and he began
climbing onto that first rock to begin
making his way towards his dog so Mike
gets up on that rock and he begins
hopping from Boulder to Boulder to
Boulder and at first it's going fine he
gets about halfway across the Boulder
Field he's you know yelling to Andy to
stay put and he's kind of making his way
it's all good but then he reaches this
one particularly large Boulder that when
he jumped onto it it was kind of
unstable and it began to wobble under
his feet and so instinctively Mike tried
to leap off of the wobbly Boulder onto
another Boulder that was right nearby
but when he jumped he sort of undershot
this second Boulder and so did not land
on it and stay put on it instead he kind
of Hit the face of the second Boulder
and slipped down to the ground didn't
hurt Mike he's just is now on the ground
in this small space between the boulders
however unfortunately the wobbly Boulder
right behind Mike well it didn't just
continue to wobble it wobbled to the
point where it rolled forward and
literally came to a rest against the
second Boulder that Mike had just jumped
onto and failed to land on top of
basically wobbly Boulder impacted second
Boulder sandwiching Mike between them
but critically it did not harm Mike this
is going to take some explaining but
it'll make sense after I go through it
wobbly Boulder had what looked like
almost a U-shaped cutout on the face of
the wobbly Boulder like imagine a
perfectly round Boulder but there's like
a divot kind of sitting on the front of
it and it just so happened that on the
second Boulder in front of wobbly
Boulder it also had a sort of divot on
the face of It kind of looking like a
u-shape and when these two Boulders
collided these 800lb Boulders Mike
happened to be standing exactly in the
position where those two cutouts wrapped
around him like shackles they basically
pinned his ankles together where he
could not pull his legs up and out of
this totally tight space that was just
big enough to hold his legs in place it
was like he was anchored to the ground
but again Mike is unharmed his legs
aren't broken he's not battered nothing
he just cannot move now Mike instantly
would have known this is a really big
issue because he can't move
these 800 lb Boulders they are 800 lb
and he's by himself minus his dog who
can't really help him with the boulders
and so Mike immediately just jumps into
oh my goodness I have to find a way to
somehow just move these Boulders even
just a millimeter a centimeter would be
enough to free his feet and so he pulled
off his bag and one by one he pulled off
every piece of equipment he had
including his camera tripod and his
stove and whatever he had and he did
everything he could to try to pry these
stupid Boulders off of him but they
would not budge and so after 2 hours of
trying in vain to free himself it dawned
on Michael that he was not going to be
able to free himself the only way he was
getting out of here is if somebody found
him and rescued him and so Mike doing
his best to stay calm he pulled out his
journal he had brought along for this
trip in order to detail you know his
closeness with God and you know what he
was learning throughout this journey and
he began documenting what happened to
him to include you know
why he was in this boulderfield what he
was doing when he got stuck you know how
he wound up in these sort of granite
shackles so to speak he also very
clearly in his writing was very much
putting his faith in God to get him out
of here he wrote in his journal on this
first day two hours into this
predicament I am in your hands Lord I
don't know what I may face the idea
being I don't know what's going to
happen to me but my faith is in you I
know you will help me through this and
so after writing this initial entry Mike
turned his attention to surviv
like not trying to push the boulders off
but trying to survive amidst The
Boulders as long as possible and so he
pulled out his blue sleeping bag and
kind of wrapped it around himself to
insulate himself he got out his stove
and there was some snow in reach and he
began putting snow in his stove and
melting it to create water and he also
pulled his tent flap over the top of him
I mean he was basically setting up camp
inside of these Boulders and that first
night must have been absolutely
horrifying I mean the temperatures
dropped down to near freezing even
though during the day it was over a 100
degrees Fahrenheit but that night he's
in this horrible position just trapped
with his own thoughts just hoping and
praying that you know God was going to
get him out of here the next day when
Mike woke up he wrote in his journal
some more and he began detailing his
biggest fears one of them was
potentially having to have his legs
amputated if he got out of here you know
the damage of losing circulation to his
legs was scary he wrote that he had food
for at least a week but he only had two
quarts of water and there wasn't all
that much snow around him left to melt
and he was running out of fuel and so he
was really worried about not having
enough water even though very ironically
he was like 25 30 ft away from a lake
which he could have drank water from but
again he's trapped to the ground and so
on the second day Mike actually
attempted to throw his water bottle
which he connected some rope to to try
to get it into the lake to capture some
water and pull it back to him but when
he threw it it was just short of the
water he could not get it into the water
so he couldn't scoop any water into his
bottle and then when he tried to
retrieve the bottle as the bottle was
being dragged towards him it got wedged
in some rocks and again he can't move so
he can't possibly fling it out of these
rocks and so he couldn't even get his
water bottle back and so by the end of
that second day Mike's tone in his
journal began to change it wasn't
totally negative yet but he began
talking about how man I wonder what's
going to happen when I run out of water
I wonder what my urine will taste like
if I mix it with Crystal Light so it was
kind of like he was joking about the
fact that he was going to try to make
his PE taste better but it also showed
he was beginning to realize just how
serious the situation was nobody knows
where he is he's completely off the
beaten path he has no idea if anybody
even knows he's in trouble and he's
about to be out of water the next day so
the third day of being trapped inside of
these Boulders Mike would Once Again
Begin writing in his journal and his
tone seemed a bit more optimistic
despite the fact that he has not solved
you know this Water Crisis he's about to
face he's down to his literal last quart
of water but in his journal he talked
about how this whole trip he went on
this n-day trip he had planned out the
whole point was to become closer to God
and he felt like you know what I've
really done that in the past couple of
days what I wanted to achieve having a
really spiritual event here it's
happened like times 100 being trapped
here I mean this is the closest I've
ever felt to God but you could just tell
there was just an underlying sense that
I'm going to get out of here I'm going
to learn from this experience I'm not
going to take stupid risks anymore I'm
going to be a better father be better
husband be a better Reverend I'm going
to make something of myself I'm going to
improve as a result of this suffering
I'm going through right now however over
the next few days that might continued
to be trapped in these rocks with no
help coming his optimism clearly waned
he began to write that he was angry with
God he wondered you know is this a
punishment for something I've done and
he also thought you know maybe I failed
God and that's why I'm here but it was
just clear that Mike who was this deeply
spiritual person who absolutely believed
in higher power how could he be in this
terrible position and not be getting any
sort of help from God how could that be
but unfortunately for Mike his situation
only got worse on about day five or six
as Mike was laying wretchedly inside of
this horrible Camp he had built he
noticed that he had completely lost
feeling in his left leg like completely
it was a dead leg at this point and even
though he knew by this point how bad of
a situation he was in this sparked a new
very real fear inside of
that he detailed in his journal he knew
his body was actually beginning to break
down and still there is no help no
Divine help coming in despite all his
prayers there's no one coming to rescue
him he is all alone in fact Mike would
write in his journal something that
practically brought me to tears when I
read it first and it just said so lonely
more than I imagined I just can't
picture what it would be like to be
trapped out there you're not hurt but
you can't go anywhere and you're all
alone just slowly withering away and
your family there's somewhere out there
they have no idea nobody knows it's just
unbelievably devastating the mental
torture this man went through is just
out of this world but it just keeps
getting worse day six day seven Mike at
some point actually dropped his journal
and because he can't actually reach it
anymore he just picked up whatever
objects he had and continued writing on
them like his pocket Bible and then also
there was an instruction manual for his
stove and he would write in the margins
and his writing just continued to get
more and more pessimistic and sad he
began writing about how intensely he
regretted his decision to take the long
route he was totally setting him up for
this situation nobody would have known
where he is and so he's hating on
himself he's still mad at God why aren't
you here aren't you seeing how badly I'm
suffering I mean this is a guy who's
basically losing his mind with regret
and anguish and just pure loneliness I
mean this is horrible but then on the
seventh and eighth day or ninth day that
he was stuck in these Boulders once
again Mike's writing on his random
things that he wrote on took another
turn Not only was his writing becoming
more and more illegible because he's
literally dying here I mean his body's
breaking down he's exposed to the sun
all day and then at night it's freezing
cold he's not having any water he's
drinking his urine you know he's got no
food left he can barely write his
writing begins to talk about his family
and his children you know at this point
Mike must have known the end is near and
so all he had was just the thoughts of
his family he began wondering you know
what his kids' life were going to be
like in the future because obviously the
implication here is he knows he won't be
there to see it he'll be dead and then
in some of the last entries he would
make it was obvious that really Mike had
turned back to God now he was back to
approaching god with open arms he was no
longer upset or questioning God's plan
he was just ready he actually wrote in
his journal fill me with peace Lord may
my conditions not deny my love for you
and then he wrote I'm ready to die
though I'm missing my family and then in
his final entry which must have been on
the 10th day of his predicament Mike's
writing was basically completely
illegible at this point because he's
right on death's door and even though
you can't really tell what he wrote at
the end of this final entry it says love
Dad it was like he was saying his final
goodbye to his family then Mike took off
his wedding band and he placed it on the
Rock next to him because he knew once he
died and decomposed the ring would fall
off his bones and be lost in the Rocks
below and he clearly wanted his family
to have that wedding ring so he placed
it on the Rock and then he prepared to
die when Brian the hiker walked up to
the sitting man he saw on this Boulder
he realized almost immediately that that
was Mike Turner because he had seen the
missing person flyers before he came
into the Wilderness and so knowing this
is the guy they're looking for and
knowing he couldn't move him he covered
him up and then he took Mike Turner's
wallet which contained his ID and then
as fast as he could Brian the hiker made
his way back to the beginning of the
trail head and contacted authorities I
will say it took Brian almost 3 days to
contact authorities and he was going as
fast as he could retracing his steps so
that really gives you a sense of really
just how remote of an area Mike was in
when he passed away and then also it
would turn out that Andy the dog who was
leading that secondary search you know
he wouldn't find Mike before Brian would
but once they discovered where Mike had
died and they checked the direction Andy
was taking his family it was obvious
that Andy was heading in that direction
he was a faithful dog going back to save
his owner he just wasn't going to get
there in time and to close the story out
making it even more tragic on the day
that Mike left his wife Diane and his
three beautiful children to begin this
n-day Trek after he left Diane received
a bouquet of flowers in the mail that
Mike had sent that he knew would arrive
after he had left
and attached to this bouquet was a note
and the note was written to Diane and it
just said thank you for letting me live
this adventure know that wherever I am
and whatever I'm doing I'm thinking of
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