New Search: Badger Mountain
UPDATE: Please see revised Comnet coverage map above.
Hi All,
Based on new cell phone location data, which is much more precise (many thanks again to Comnet, particularly Angie), we will be conducting another search of all the county and other roads in the Badger Mountain area on Saturday morning, 4/24/10. The more folks and cars we have the better. We plan on meeting in front of the Teller County Sheriff’s station at 9:00 AM on Saturday. The office is about 7-8 miles west of Woodland Park on HWY 24, just across the street from a Western gas station. There is a big dirt lot out front and we will meet there. I’ll be in a white Honda Pilot with blue graphics that says Long’s Peak Family and Sports Medicine on the side. Please email me at christophermadden@usa.net if you have any questions, and to confirm that you want to help on the Saturday search so I can get a head count. Topographic maps, National Geographic Maps, and Colorado Gazetteers may all be helpful, and if you have them please bring them. We can make a plan Saturday morning in the lot, then head out.
For those wanting to search tomorrow (Friday 4/23/2010), please start in the Badger X quadrant marked on the cell phone tower map (see updated post regarding the revised Comnet coverage map – the X quadrant is in the SE direction). We request that the adjacent areas also be searched. Please take notes of the areas you have searched and post them on this website to help us better coordinate and avoid duplication (county roads and distances gone, etc.).
Jeremy’s phone definitely communicated with the Badger Mountain tower between Monday (4/12) and Wednesday (4/14), when we last had any sign of it. We plan on dividing and conquering all the roads in the area. Thanks so much to everyone for your help.
Chris Madden.
Brian K., 
Julie, and 5 others are discussing. 
Help Find Jeremy Griess 
gregory j. hill 2:33 pm on April 23, 2010 Permalink |
Wilkerson Pass Visitor Center (Summit of W. Pass) is closed, but there’s a fair-sized parking lot there. Might make a good staging area. May have open restrooms, too. DeLorme CO Atlas Pg. 49, D-6 & D-7 shows (Forest Road) FR228, among other FR’s and FT’s (Forest Trail). Godspeed and God Bless U All!
Julie 1:11 pm on April 23, 2010 Permalink |
May God Bless all family, friends, and volunteers! I pray that God illuminate the path to Jeremy and send angels to help facilitate the search. May Divine Presence comfort and guide all at this time. In constant prayer… wish we could do more!
Abigail Eastman (Kuehn) 10:21 am on April 23, 2010 Permalink |
Hi, guys! I sent phone numbers to the head of Search and Rescue for that area to Chandra’s Facebook account. Their team goes out several times a month with great success rates.
Lori Insko 10:19 am on April 23, 2010 Permalink |
Aunt Wanda, Uncle Ted, Cass, Tony and Chandra…John and I and the boys are all praying for you and especially Jeremy. Our hearts are so full of love and concern for all of you. We so wish we were there to hold you and pray with you. Keep your faith in God. He loves you all so much and ESPECIALLY Jeremy. Where ever Jeremy is he is not alone…God is right there with him. We love you all very much.
Love and prayers from Maine.
Brenda 10:01 am on April 23, 2010 Permalink |
Ever since I found out Jeremy was missing there has been a dark cloud over my world and I would want him to know how he has affected the lives of people he has never met and that him being absent from our lives has left us with an empty, devastating feeling.
Joan Ouren 8:11 am on April 23, 2010 Permalink |
I am sure you have already considered this but a friend of mine raises dogs. She is a respected and certified dog breeder. She wondered if you could get ahold of even 2 bloodhounds to help you in the search. With the wooded areas it may help. She says that dogs have such an enormous sense of smell they would help alot. I know that it would be hard to find some of them but even if you could round up 2 it might be a start.
Good luck in the search, I wish I could be there to help.
Brian K. 12:26 pm on April 23, 2010 Permalink |
My prayers are with the family. Ever since I saw this on MTBR it’s bothered me and I would surely like to offer whatever little bit of help I can.
Chris,
Could Jeremy have tried to go fishing below the 11 mile res. dam?
Also, what’s the snow like up there? I heard they got 10 inches last night. Are the FS roads passable? Is it worth heading up, can you see anything?
Are people getting out and searching around trailheads to see if perhaps he was the victim of a carjacking? I hate to see people not getting out and taking a look because they are only looking for a car. If you’re already there why not get out for 5 min and take a look around?
Have you been able to put together a possible route he was traveling from the cell tower data?
lmwong 12:46 pm on April 23, 2010 Permalink |
We have a possible route based on the cell tower data, which has lead us to Badger Mountain, so far.
Brian K. 1:17 pm on April 23, 2010 Permalink |
Westminster to Woodland park to Badger Mtn. via what roads? Time of day?
I’m just having a hard time figuring out why someone would drive from Westminster that late in the day to start a hike up to the top of a mountain. If he left Westminster at noon, seems he wouldn’t have even gotten out of the car until 3pm? That’s a long drive for a short hike. Doesn’t make sense for an experienced hiker to do that this time of year.
Brian K. 1:21 pm on April 23, 2010 Permalink |
Could you please post the possible route?