Found Deceased CO - Brian Joseph Perri, 38, Mount Meeker, Rocky Mountain National Park, 30 Jun 2018

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Rescuers searching for man missing in Rocky Mountain National Park for nearly a week

Brian Joseph Perri, 38, was reported missing Thursday. He was scheduled to go day hiking on Saturday, and sent a photo to a friend of himself at the summit of Mount Meeker. He was intending only to day hike, and did not have a tent or camping equipment.

Rangers found Perri's car in the parking lot at the Sandbeach Lake Trailhead on Thursday night and conducated a brief aerial search near the summit of Mount Meeker. Rescue crews today began ground search efforts, concentrating on the summit of Mount Meeker and the ridge lines extending off the mountain. Aerial crews will also assist in the search if the weather cooperates.

Were you at Mount Meeker recently? Rangers need your help to find Brian Perri

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His Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007963444531

 

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Video at link.

Man Goes Missing After Summiting Mount Meeker

Early Friday morning, Rocky Mountain National Park Search and Rescue team members began a ground search. The search is focused on the summit of Mount Meeker and the ridge lines extending off the summit above tree line.

“Our ground search efforts have been focused on the summit of Mount Meeker,” Patterson said.

 

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Search expands for Fort Collins man missing for a week in Rocky Mountain National Park

Park officials said 64 people, including 46 searchers in the field, are involved in today's operation. Northern Colorado Helitack is conducting aerial search efforts, while members of Rocky Mountain Rescue Group in Boulder County and Larimer County Search and Rescue are on the ground.

 

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Search for Fort Collins hiker missing in Rocky Mountain National Park enters 3rd full day

Ground teams will focus on the north face of Mount Meeker and the lower elevations around Hunters Creek and Lookout Mountain as the search for a Fort Collins man missing in Rocky Mountain National Park for a week enters its third full day.

Today's efforts will not include aerial support, as those resources have been assigned to firefighting operations elsewhere in the state, according to national park officials.

 

[swanniee11]

missing person FB for him. Missing Person- Brian Perri

 

[JerseyGirl]

Search Efforts Continue For Missing Man Last Seen On Mount Meeker

Perri’s last known location was the summit of Mount Meeker (13,911 feet) on Saturday, June 30. Air resources are not available today, due to them being assigned to wildland fires in the state. Also assisting Rocky Mountain National Park Search and Rescue members again today is Larimer County Search and Rescue and Rocky Mountain Rescue based in Boulder County. A dog team from Larimer County Search and Rescue is also working on today’s efforts. There are 54 people involved, including 47 searchers in the field.

 

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Drone joins search for hiker in Rocky Mountain National Park

Search crews are now using a drone to look for a hiker missing in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson said Monday that 20 people and a dog team are also searching for 38-year-old Brian Perri on Mount Meeker.

 

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Fort Collins man missing in Rocky Mountain National Park is a CSU student, avid hiker

Jane Kurtz Williams met Perri through her boyfriend, who attends graduate school with Perri at Colorado State University. She said Perri decided to hike Mount Meeker to celebrate completing his master's thesis.

Kurtz Williams said Perri was in the Army for several years while serving in a psychological operations battalion as a paratrooper. He was deployed overseas to various places after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Growing up in Pennsylvania, she said Perri was a Boy Scout and an Eagle Scout.

"He's got the survival skill set and this mentality of perseverance," Kurtz Williams said.

 

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Family: Fort Collins man missing near Mount Meeker went through Army survival training

Perri graduated from Carbondale Area High Junior Senior High School in 1998 before joining the Army where he served in psychological operations, Pilny said. During his military tenure, he went through the military's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training program.

"Because of that, he has had survival training, and that's why we're hopeful that he can live in a survival situation in the wilderness for longer than the average person," she said.

 

[dspdenver]

The Find Brian Perri Facebook page had an upbeat post for the family/friends loosely organized search this morning starting from the Sandbeach Trailhead, with various well-wishing comments through the day, but that post disappeared this afternoon, so wonder if that means anything?

His friend JC Fischer, who was featured in that post, seems to be searching areas the official search teams have deemed of low interest, as detailed in this story:

Friend of man missing in Rocky Mountain National Park vows to find him

"Fischer said Perri was likely trying to descend the mountain as fast as possible because he was running late to meet a friend."

If Perri did make it back to the treeline when descending and took a more direct route down as theorized by Fischer, that opens up a lot more area where he could be lost/disabled in heavier cover. Still hoping he comes home safely.

 

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‘I will not let this mountain be my friends grave:’ Friends continue search for missing hiker

The missing hiker on Mount Meeker in Rocky Mountain National Park now has a group of friends, even strangers looking for him.

“He’s my best friend,” JC Fischer said. “I’m not leaving him up here, no ma’am”

“This is what you do for family,” Fischer said. “Everyday, until my feet break and my body stops working, i’ll be out here.”

Mark Ward has never met Perri. What he does know is a fellow veteran is stranded.

“You never leave a man behind,” Ward said.

 

[ZhaZhaHa]

Saw this on the news. We have never hiked Meeker, has anybody here? I know Longs is crazy dangerous (and actually, most people mistake Meeker as longs here where I live because you can see Meeker in front). I do worry about a fall. You can get dizzy up there or have something slide out from under you.

 

[GraceG]

Saw this on the news. We have never hiked Meeker, has anybody here? I know Longs is crazy dangerous (and actually, most people mistake Meeker as longs here where I live because you can see Meeker in front). I do worry about a fall. You can get dizzy up there or have something slide out from under you.

Here is some
info on the usual descent. The Loft : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering : SummitPost

 

[GraceG]

Piper Aircraft Company has an air safety investigation page that has historical radar data that's really accurate. Air Safety Investigation Resource - Radar. (click on "weather radar" link, click on "National and Local Radar Data" (top link). Click on Radar (green symbol). Select date and time. Late afternoon would be around 2000-2200 (it's in GMT time). You can click on the actual US map to hone in on a particular part of a state. I looked up the radar for late afternoon the day Brian went missing and there was an area of strong convective activity at that time (strong winds, rain, lightning). Hopefully he was down in the tree line by that time, but still, it adds to the risk.

 

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Rocky Mountain National Park to deploy dog team this weekend in search team for missing hiker Brian Perri

Rocky Mountain National Park will send out a dog team this weekend to look for a hiker who has now been missing for three weeks, and will then reassess whether to search efforts beyond that.

 

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The unofficial search for Brian Perri

"(JC) Fischer wouldn't call RMNP receptive to the unofficial search he's conducting, but said the rangers have been comforting."

"He acknowledged the area he's been concentrating on features the nastiest terrain he's ever hiked. "

'"I have personally incurred several stress fractures in each foot, and a broken toe about four or five days ago," he said. "So I've been hiking on recent stress fractures and a broken toe for a while. I'm pretty sure I broke another one yesterday." '

' He expressed no interest in quitting until his friend is found.

"I want to find Brian," he said. "I don't want my friend on that mountain. I want my friend home." '

 

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The unofficial search for Brian Perri

"(JC) Fischer wouldn't call RMNP receptive to the unofficial search he's conducting, but said the rangers have been comforting."

"He acknowledged the area he's been concentrating on features the nastiest terrain he's ever hiked. "

'"I have personally incurred several stress fractures in each foot, and a broken toe about four or five days ago," he said. "So I've been hiking on recent stress fractures and a broken toe for a while. I'm pretty sure I broke another one yesterday." '

' He expressed no interest in quitting until his friend is found.

"I want to find Brian," he said. "I don't want my friend on that mountain. I want my friend home." '

Kudos to all the searchers!

 

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Kudos to all the searchers!

Dog teams search for missing hiker in Rocky Mountain National Park

 

[margarita25]

One of my friends is a serious rock climber and was asked by a SAR member to keep an eye out/help search these past few weeks, so he has been out there. We were discussing how he and these climbers have an amazing advantage as searchers as they can “cut across” vertically, as opposed to land searchers that have to “go around”. They can get into places that dogs and land searchers on foot can not, like crevices, and can cover terrain inside ridges along the sides of cliffs etc which might not be visible aerially or provide a hit for thermal detection copters. He was explaining how strong the sun is up there.

 

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All those people who are out there looking for the missing and putting themselves at risk are my heroes, seriously