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\nThese are t he stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences\, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your back yard) than almost anyone thinks. These are the missing whose situations ar e the hardest on loved ones left behind. The cases that are an embarrassme nt for park superintendents\, rangers and law enforcement charged with Sea rch &\; Rescue. The ones that baffle the volunteers who comb the mounta ins\, woods and badlands. The stories that should give you pause every tim e you venture outdoors.
\nThrough Jacob Gray's disappearance in Olym pic National Park\, and his father Randy Gray who left his life to search for him\, we learn about what happens when someone goes missing. Braided a round the core are the stories of the characters who fill the vacuum creat ed by a vanished human being. We meet eccentric bloodhound-handler Duff an d R.C.\, his flagship purebred\, who began trailing with the family dog af ter his brother vanished in the San Gabriel Mountains. And there's Michael Neiger\, North America's foremost backcountry Search &\; Rescue expert and self-described "bushman" obsessed with missing persons. And top resea rcher of persons missing on public wildlands Ex-San Jose\, California dete ctive David Paulides who is also one of the world's foremost Bigfoot resea rchers.
\nIt's a tricky thing to write about missing persons because the story is the absence of someone. A void. The person at the heart of t he story is thinner than a smoke ring\, invisible as someone else's memory . The bones you dig up are most often metaphorical. While much of the book will embrace memory and faulty memory &mdash\; history &mdash\; The C old Vanish:Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands \;is at its core a story of now and tomorrow. Someone will vanish in the wild t omorrow. These are the people who will go looking.
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