Hikers Keep Going Missing in Same Part of Oregon. Forest Service Closed the Trail and Said Nothing

Since 1997, two hundred and forty people have walked into Oregon’s forests and never walked out. That number comes from the Oregon Office of Emergency Management. It is not a guess. It is not an estimate pulled from the internet. It is the official count maintained by the state’s search-and-rescue coordinator, a man named Georges Kleinbaum, who has spent his career tracking who goes into Oregon’s wilderness and who comes back. One hundred and eighty-nine men.