Found Deceased CO - Jacob Cyr, 31, came from IA to camp during Rainbow Gathering event, Adams Park, went into Routt Natl Forest, Jul 2022

[GuyfromCanada]

Jacob Cyr, 31, from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was reported missing by his family after not returning home in late July following camping at the Rainbow Gathering in north Routt County.

Routt County Search and Rescue conducted a ground search along with dog teams on Saturday, Aug. 13, looking for a 31-year-old Iowa man who was reported missing from his campsite at the Rainbow Gathering in north Routt County.

Routt County Search and Rescue President Jay Bowman said 12 people searched in a dense area northwest of the north Adams Park 1144 trailhead where the Rainbow Gathering took place earlier this summer.

The crew was accompanied by two cadaver dog teams from Vail and Summit County, Bowman said. A drone search of a larger area was conducted on Friday, Aug. 12.

More at Search for man who went missing during Rainbow Gathering uncovers few clues

 

[Laughing]

@RickshawFan , deja vu all over again???

Seems to be all the same information:

Search for man who went missing during Rainbow Gathering uncovers few clues

Routt County Search and Rescue conducted a ground search along with dog teams on Saturday, Aug. 13, looking for a 31-year-old Iowa man who was reported missing from his campsite at the Rainbow Gathering in...

www.steamboatpilot.com

Seems to be a thread on r*dd*t , I didn't click through.

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[MAHBOOBOO]

Looked up the Rainbow Gathering. Appears to be a several day festival/campout for free spirits and hippie-ish people. Alcohol is not allowed but drugs are prevalent. Many attendees are nomadic but many attendees also live normal lives with houses and jobs. Attendees are encouraged to pitch in and help at the event with normal duties like digging latrines, cooking and cleaning.

Source:

Love, prayer and tickets: What we saw at the Rainbow Family gathering in northwest Colorado

The annual Rainbow Family gathering drew 10,000 people and lots of online ire. We sent a reporter to see what it was really like.

coloradosun.com

 

[RickshawFan]

@RickshawFan , deja vu all over again???

Seems to be all the same information:

Search for man who went missing during Rainbow Gathering uncovers few clues

Routt County Search and Rescue conducted a ground search along with dog teams on Saturday, Aug. 13, looking for a 31-year-old Iowa man who was reported missing from his campsite at the Rainbow Gathering in...

www.steamboatpilot.com

Seems to be a thread on r*dd*t , I didn't click through.

jmho ymmv lrr

I'm generally up to my eyeballs in backcountry missing and mysteries these days, but hadn't seen this one.
They have been using very few SAR ground folks on this search. To me, it suggested that they were less than convinced it would be successful. And then there's this quote from @GuyfromCanada 's source ^^^^

“At this time, it’s still an ongoing investigation,” Scherar said Tuesday, Aug. 16, noting the sheriff’s office does not plan to redeploy search and rescue without more specific search information. He said the drone search covered 1,000 acres, and the foot search covered 300 acres.

 

[RickshawFan]

Looked up the Rainbow Gathering. Appears to be a several day festival/campout for free spirits and hippie-ish people. Alcohol is not allowed but drugs are prevalent. Many attendees are nomadic but many attendees also live normal lives with houses and jobs. Attendees are encouraged to pitch in a help at the event with normal duties like digging latrines, cooking and cleaning.

None of those activities (e.g. digging, latrines, and building fires) are supposed to be taking place in wild areas, which are "leave no trace". They are also required to have permits, but they never do.
The Rainbow Gathering are notoriously not welcome. They pick sites in secret, get the word out, and overwhelm communities.

This year's RG had 2100 cars. Imagine that on precious federal land. 509 LE "enforcements", 60 dedicated officers. NFS costs of $700k (i.e. our tax payer dollars). Nuts!

This is what Steamboat Springs is going through right now: all the ecological damage.

Rainbow Gathering cleanup, forest rehabilitation moving slower than expected

The status of cleanup and rehabilitation work at the site of the 50th anniversary Rainbow Gathering in northern Routt County is progressing slowly, according to U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Michael Woodbridge. About 30 to...

www.steamboatpilot.com

 

[RickshawFan]

And now folks will complain that the search for this missing man wasn't thorough enough. Heck, local LE is all tied up attending to cleanup and "enforcements".
At some point, IMO, accountability is warranted, and searching for a missing person in this context might very well be a fool's errand. Heck, I'd not be excited about risking my life to go search.... But maybe that's just me.

 

[Curious_in_NC]

@RickshawFan , deja vu all over again???

Seems to be all the same information:

Search for man who went missing during Rainbow Gathering uncovers few clues

Routt County Search and Rescue conducted a ground search along with dog teams on Saturday, Aug. 13, looking for a 31-year-old Iowa man who was reported missing from his campsite at the Rainbow Gathering in...

www.steamboatpilot.com

Seems to be a thread on r*dd*t , I didn't click through.

jmho ymmv lrr

Based on the dates reported in this article:

June 18 - Jacob Cyr was last seen walking into the woods
"was last seen by a fellow camper on June 18 walking north and west into the forest from the informal group camping near the Adams Park north trailhead"
This was more than a week before the actual event (approx. June 27-July 7)
Late July - Cyr was expected to return home to Council Bluffs, Iowa
August 3 - reported missing by sister in Iowa
August 12-13 Routt County SAR searches including cadaver dogs and drones

My take from this is he must have been helping with event preparation in some way, and perhaps was expected to help with event cleanup too if he wasn't expected back until weeks after. Wouldn't someone there have noticed him missing and been concerned? Was there reason to think he may have left the area with someone?

 

[pineguy64]

I am a friend of Jacob and created the threads over on r*dd*t (I'm new here and unsure if you're allowed to mention that sites name or not, so censored similar to @Laughing in comment #2 to be safe). He has a lot of friends and a great family missing him and hoping for the best, I thought I'd join this thread just in case someone happens to bring up a lead here.

 

[Curious_in_NC]

I am a friend of Jacob and created the threads over on r*dd*t (I'm new here and unsure if you're allowed to mention that sites name or not, so censored similar to @Laughing in comment #2 to be safe). He has a lot of friends and a great family missing him and hoping for the best, I thought I'd join this thread just in case someone happens to bring up a lead here.

Welcome @pineguy64. I think you'll find this forum to be maybe more civilized and less random than that other forum. There's a lot of opinions about the Gathering but people here genuinely want to help find the missing. If you think it would be useful, you can be apply to be verified as an "insider" and you can then share information here that isn't reported by main stream media (MSM) or law enforcement. Anything else is considered rumor or hearsay and usually gets deleted if it doesn't come from an insider.

Frankly there's not a lot of public information to go on about your friend. For example, did he drive a vehicle to the Gathering or travel with others to get there? Did he have any medical conditions or other cause for concern? Did he have a phone or IDs with him?

 

[YaYa_521]

Rainbow Family Gathering Mystery: The Search for Jacob Cyr

The initial search covered 1,000 acres.

www.westword.com

AUGUST 24, 2022
SBM

{snip] ...Jacob had no history of going off the grid for long stretches at a time: "He wasn't the type of person to do that, because he wouldn't have wanted us to worry. And he made plans to go hiking with my brother, who lives in North Carolina, in early to mid-August." [snip] ...a woman who revealed that Jacob's phone and wallet had turned up among lost-and-found belongings during the cleanup. "She also said Jacob wanted to go hiking in the mountains and she told him not to, but he went anyway,"

 

[Sincerely]

I’ve always had a weird feeling about these gatherings since following a missing person case back in 2011. Marie Hanson went missing during a Rainbow Gathering. There was also a sketch of a person of interest; however I’m not certain if her death (her remains were found later that year) was ruled an accident, homicide, or something else.

Woman who went to Rainbow Gathering still missing

YAKIMA – Marie Hanson made a spur-of-the moment decision last month to attend a “peace rally” in a remote Washington forest, after her neighbors told her they had an extra seat in the car. Her family hasn’t heard from her since.

www.spokesman.com

Police release sketch in missing person case

Detectives with the Skamania County Sheriff's Office released a sketch of a person of interest in the case of a woman reported missing from the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

www.columbian.com

 

[Curious_in_NC]

Because the Rainbow Gatherings are nearly always held on National Forest lands that complicates things for finding people like Marie Hanson and Jacob. Maybe it's because of competing jurisdictions. There have been lots of articles, books, etc. written on the issue of National Parks/Forests and missing persons, some with controversial claims.

Just one example:

Why hundreds of people vanish into the American wilderness

In April 2017, Jacob Gray rode his bicycle during a rainstorm into Washington state’s Olympic National Park and vanished. The 22-year-old’s bike and camping gear were discovered near the Sol Duc Ri…

nypost.com

The biggest obstacle to getting any information about missing people in the wild, according to Paulides, is National Park Service red tape. He speculates that the Park Service conceals the true data on how and where people disappear and how many have actually been found because it “would shock the public so badly that visitor numbers would fall off a cliff,” Billman writes.

“I don’t think there’s a grand conspiracy to keep the numbers hidden,” he says. “But the National Park Service certainly doesn’t advertise that there are dozens of still-missing visitors in Grand Canyon or Yosemite, and a county sheriff isn’t gonna put a missing person on his reelection poster.”

 

[Laughing]

None of those activities (e.g. digging, latrines, and building fires) are supposed to be taking place in wild areas, which are "leave no trace". They are also required to have permits, but they never do.
The Rainbow Gathering are notoriously not welcome. They pick sites in secret, get the word out, and overwhelm communities.

This year's RG had 2100 cars. Imagine that on precious federal land. 509 LE "enforcements", 60 dedicated officers. NFS costs of $700k (i.e. our tax payer dollars). Nuts!

This is what Steamboat Springs is going through right now: all the ecological damage.

Rainbow Gathering cleanup, forest rehabilitation moving slower than expected

The status of cleanup and rehabilitation work at the site of the 50th anniversary Rainbow Gathering in northern Routt County is progressing slowly, according to U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Michael Woodbridge. About 30 to...

www.steamboatpilot.com

Good friend of ours works on a National Forest, and he handles permits. Per Forest Service personnel, wildfires you see on TV do less ecological damage to the forest than the Rainbow Gathering.

The group will sometimes comply with requesting permits, sometimes comply with the entire permitting process. Sometimes. Sometimes the number of people who show up is about the same as the number listed on the permit. Sometimes. Sometimes the main camp area is in the area listed on the permit. Sometimes.

With or without a permit, much damage is done to the ecosystem every time.

jmpersonalexperience ymmv lrr

 

[Stunned]

None of those activities (e.g. digging, latrines, and building fires) are supposed to be taking place in wild areas, which are "leave no trace". They are also required to have permits, but they never do.
The Rainbow Gathering are notoriously not welcome. They pick sites in secret, get the word out, and overwhelm communities.

This year's RG had 2100 cars. Imagine that on precious federal land. 509 LE "enforcements", 60 dedicated officers. NFS costs of $700k (i.e. our tax payer dollars). Nuts!

This is what Steamboat Springs is going through right now: all the ecological damage.

Rainbow Gathering cleanup, forest rehabilitation moving slower than expected

The status of cleanup and rehabilitation work at the site of the 50th anniversary Rainbow Gathering in northern Routt County is progressing slowly, according to U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Michael Woodbridge. About 30 to...

www.steamboatpilot.com

They also seem too pick up quite a few of society's outcasts. Ran into a couple of people on a canoe run in Ocala one year with a Confederate flag flying begging for money. Claimed to be part of the Rainbow family looking gorgeous gas money. Not with that flag you weren't!
They were meeting in the forest then. All over town were stores saying only one member at a time allowed in.

 

[pineguy64]

There have been a lot of leads that haven't panned out so far, the most recent news does not look good. Sunday the 4th a hunter from out of state found a human skull north of Adams Park outside the original search area. So far no other remains have been found in the immediate area. They are doing DNA and dental record analysis to try to get an identity, along with detectives and Routt County Search and Rescue along with dog teams organizing another search of the area, without any news of a date at the moment.

It will take them time to get an identity from DNA samples and dental records. I still hope my friend is going to show up alive somewhere, but this is the most recent news. The link above is to the Steamboat Pilot article this info is all from.

 

[annpats]

Looked up the Rainbow Gathering. Appears to be a several day festival/campout for free spirits and hippie-ish people. Alcohol is not allowed but drugs are prevalent.

Well, that just about sums it up. No point banning alcohol if drugs are accepted.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

More human remains found during North Routt search

ROUTT COUNTY — Detectives with the Routt County Sheriff’s Office and Routt County Search and Rescue conducted a search in North Routt County on Friday, Sept. 9, following the discovery of a human skull earlier in the week....

www.summitdaily.com

ROUTT COUNTY — Detectives with the Routt County Sheriff’s Office and Routt County Search and Rescue conducted a search in North Routt County on Friday, Sept. 9, following the discovery of a human skull earlier in the week.

According to a news release, dog teams located additional skeletal human remains about a mile from where the skull was found by a hunter on Sunday, Sept. 4.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Human remains found in Routt County are identified as missing Rainbow Family gathering participant

Human remains found in Routt County have been identified as those of an Iowa man who was reported missing from the Rainbow Family gathering this summer.

www.greeleytribune.com

Human remains found in Routt County have been identified as those of an Iowa man who was reported missing from the Rainbow Family gathering this summer.

On Wednesday the Routt County Coroner’s Office positively identified the remains as Jacob Michael Cyr, of Treynor, Iowa, according to a sheriff’s office news release.

 

[YaYa_521]

Rest in peace, Jacob.