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On July 1st, a local district ranger, his wife, and two of their teen kids are hiking on the trail that starts at the
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Pacific Creek campground. Now, it's about 4:45 p.m. when the ranger stops to cut down a tree that's on the path. And
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his wife and kids decide to just keep going. And a little ways up the trail, mom and kids come across a gray-haired
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man wearing a baseball hat and jeans, but most of his clothes are dirty, like he'd been out there for some time. The
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thing is, he isn't carrying a hiking pack or water or anything. Mom notices that this man turns his face away as
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they pass him, and she says hello, but the man doesn't even reply. Now, at the time, she thinks his behavior is odd,
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but she doesn't really give it another thought until July 16th when she sees Mike Bullinger's picture on the news.
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She immediately thinks that is the man she saw on the trail. So, she reports it to police.
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When asked on a scale from 1 to 10 how certain she was it was him, she said seven or eight. Now, the problem with
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this sighting is snow. Even though we're talking about midsummer in July, the campground is at a high altitude, almost
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7,000 ft above sea level, and the trail goes up even higher from there. So, if you tried to hike that trail, say in mid
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June when the car was down, you'd come across a ton of snow pretty quickly.