David O'Sullivan was 25 years old when he flew to California to hike the famed Pacific Crest Trail.
in search of a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, have marked five years since the young man’s heartbreaking disappearance., a 2,653-mile trek from California’s southern border with Mexico to Washington’s northern border with Canada. On April 6, 2017, he emailed his family to let them know he was resupplying in Idyllwild in Riverside County, a frequent stop along the trail. He said he was excited to continue on.
O’Sullivan spent a year saving money by working at a gas station, and he physically prepared himself with hikes around his County Cork hometown and in the Irish countryside beyond. But Ireland’s mountain peaks aren’t nearly as high as those encountered on the PCT, and O’Sullivan had little experience with snowy conditions. According to trail reports, up to 3 feet of snow awaited him in the next phase of his hike.
David O'Sullivan was 25 when he went missing from the Pacific Crest Trail near Idyllwild, Calif., in April 2017. He has black hair and blue eyes and is 5-foot-10; he was believed to have been carrying a light blue backpack and purple sleeping bag.“I got kind of a general feeling he was kind of getting slapped around by being out on the trail,” a hiker who met him in Anza, California,On April 7, O’Sullivan left Idyllwild for the San Jacinto Mountains. Then, he went silent.
Initially, this felt expected. O’Sullivan warned his family not to be worried if he went long stretches without communicating; his only working technology was a Kindle that needed a Wi-Fi connection, and he’d be out of cell range up in the mountains anyway. But by May, his loved ones were truly worried. They spoke to local police in Ireland and posted on PCT Facebook groups, asking if anyone had run into O’Sullivan.
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