Hiker missing near Byron Reece Memorial Trail, Blairsville GA
Missing PersonA hiker went missing near Byron Reece Memorial Trail. Search teams and volunteers are actively looking for the person. The area is well traveled but the hiker may have gone off the trail. The missing day was cold with snow. Authorities have released a photo captured by cameras. Efforts to find the hiker continue.
Audio|Source: Northeast Georgia Amateur Radio Repeaters
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Transcript:
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You hear about that, um,
00:02
I guess as a hiker, I guess,
00:05
missing up there in the mount.
00:12
Yeah, I heard about that.
00:14
It's really,
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really strange.
00:19
It's like,
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where could the guy go? So,
00:23
I don't know.
00:26
It would be interesting to find out the answer down the road.
00:33
But they've got a lot of people this weekend.
00:38
My daughter and I rode up to the farm.
00:41
Place but we pulled through the parking lot there at Byron Reece area and just packed with people out looking for the guy different services different teams coming in and doing their doing their thing so yeah i don't know it's sad
01:07
Yeah, I wish them the best up there.
01:09
So one is getting cold and, you know, I guess if you get off the trails and, you know, you can get turned around pretty quick.
01:23
And they can get steep in places and tough to traverse through there as well.
01:31
But I hope they'll find them safe here.
01:35
Thank you.
01:40
Yeah, I'm hoping for the best.
01:42
But the day he went missing was the snow day.
01:48
They've got a picture that they put out of him.
01:52
They caught him on one of the cameras up a full store at the top of the hill.
01:58
And there's a patch of snow there on the ground next to him.
02:05
So it was pretty cold the day he was.
02:09
Went missing and he wasn't planning on doing overnight.
02:12
He was just out just kind of meandering around.
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So, yeah, I don't know, and that area is so busy.
02:22
That's one of the areas that I go up and hike.
02:25
I'm just going to go up and do a little day hike.
02:29
It's a very well-traveled area, so he would have to get, you know, way off the trail.
02:38
To not be noticed, I would think.
02:41
And the trail is so well traveled that, you know, it's not like you're kind of fumbling your way around.
02:52
But, you know, it's really, really strange that that happened.
02:58
Or they, you know, that he disappeared like that.
03:02
They claimed that the last thing off his cell phone.
03:07
Was actually down in the fleet.
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Location mentioned:
Byron Reece Trailhead Parking, Byron Reece Memorial Trail, Blairsville, GA 30512
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