George T. Langley Jr 41, Msg 10/06/09 in Forest above Lake Wenatchee WA [BODY FOUND]

[sarahhod]

Search begins for missing Seattle hiker

By Dee Riggs (http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/staff/dee-riggs/)
World staff writer
Friday, October 9, 2009

Chelan County sheriff’s deputies were heading into the forest above Lake Wenatchee this morning to look for a Seattle hiker who is two days overdue.
George T. Langley Jr., 41, failed to return home on Tuesday as planned, said Jerry Moore, chief of administration for the sheriff’s office. Langley’s family reported him missing at 8:30 a.m. Thursday. His car was located at the trailhead to Little Giant Pass, the area he had told his family he would be hiking into.
A helicopter with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office flew over the area Thursday and spotted a mid-sized backpack believed to belong to Langley in an area where the trail heads up toward Buck Mountain. Deputies landed and talked with other hikers who said they had seen Langley on Wednesday, heading toward Buck Mountain and “he seemed to be in good shape,” Moore said.
A group of volunteers and deputies with Chelan County, numbering 12 to 15, were planning to enter the forest from the end of the White River Road this morning, he said. Langley’s family says he is an experienced climber and hiker.

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/oct/09/search-begins-for-missing-seattle-hiker/

[sarahhod]

Seattle actor missing in Glacier Peak Wilderness

The Chelan County Sheriff's Office has initiated a ground and air search in the Glacier Peak Wilderness area of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest near Lake Wenatchee for T.J. Langley, a Seattle actor and apartment-building manager, who hasn't been heard from since Sunday.

By Charles E. Brown (http://search.nwsource.com/search?searchtype=cq&sort=date&from=ST&byline=Charles%20E%2E%20Brown)
Seattle Times staff reporter

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TJ Langley left on Sunday to climb Clark, Luahna and Buck, with the intention of being back on Tuesday night.



The Chelan County Sheriff's Office has initiated a ground and air search in the Glacier Peak Wilderness area of the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest near Lake Wenatchee for T.J. Langley, a Seattle theater actor and apartment-building manager, who hasn't been heard from since Sunday.
Langley checked in at a forest trailhead that day for what was supposed to be a two-day solo hike.
Family and friends say they expected 42-year-old Langley back by late Tuesday. They have not heard from him.
Chelan County Sheriff Mike Harum is taking seriously the overdue-hiker report filed Thursday morning.
Since Thursday, the Sheriff's Office, with assistance from the sheriff's offices in Snohomish and King counties and several volunteers, have been conducting a search, concentrating on the Clark and Buck mountain areas.
Besides a ground search, helicopters searched from the air on Thursday afternoon, and a fixed-wing Cessna conducted an aerial search midday Friday.
"The country we're looking at is steep, rugged, true wilderness area," said Chelan County Deputy Sheriff Gene Ellis. "Much of it is off-trail, meaning we're going through areas where there is no built-in trail."
Ellis said Langley signed in at the trailhead on Sunday, indicating he'd be back Tuesday. His car, a 1970s Volkswagen Beetle, was found parked at the trailhead.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010035443_weblangleysearch.html

[sarahhod]

Missing Hiker In Glacier Peak Wilderness

Posted: 7:23 pm PDT October 9, 2009
Updated: 7:59 pm PDT October 9, 2009


Stevens Pass, Washington -- A ground and air search is underway for a missing hiker near Stevens Pass.Mike Harum, PIO for Chelan County Sheriff's Office, tells KIRO 7 that the hiker has been overdue since Tuesday.According to Harum, the man is up in the Glacier Peak Wilderness area, about 10 miles northeast of the summit of Stevens Pass.Searchers believe that they found the hiker's sleeping bag and gear on Friday. Harum says that the missing person is an avid climber and hiker. When he left he told relatives and friends that he was going up to hike Little Giant Peak and Buck Mountain, both of which are in the Glacier Peak Wilderness area.Chelan County sent ground crews and a helicopter Friday to begin the search. Snohomish County Sheriff's Department has also come over to assist Chelan County. The King County Sheriff's Department sent up a helicopter and dog search team as well. Snohomish County is bringing a helicopter to do night flying with their FLIR and night vision to see if they can locate the hiker.The search will continue overnight. At daylight Saturday they will start with the other helcopters again, as well as ground teams.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/21256649/detail.html

[sarahhod]

Experienced hiker missing in forest near Wenatchee


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Glacier Peak Wilderness


Story Published: Oct 10, 2009 at 10:02 AM PDT
Story Updated: Oct 10, 2009 at 10:02 AM PDT

By Associated Press

SEATTLE (AP) - An experienced hiker is missing in the Glacier Peak Wilderness near Lake Wenatchee.

Seattle actor T.J. Langley left Sunday on a hiking trip with plans to be back Tuesday night. Langley survived a grizzly attack in Yellowstone National Park 10 years ago. His friends and family are hoping his luck will hold out.

Nearly three dozen people have been searching for the 42-year-old, who is an experienced backcountry hiker. Langley's car was found parked at the trailhead.

Chelan County Deputy Sheriff Gene Ellis says the area being searched on foot and from helicopters and airplanes is steep and rugged.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/63928402.html

[sarahhod]

NEW Search continues for missing hiker who grew up in Yakima

By Charles E. Brown
THE SEATTLE TIMES


The search continued today for veteran Seattle theater actor, T.J. Langley, who failed to return Tuesday from what he told friends and family would be a two-day solo hike in the Glacier Peak Wilderness area.
Langley grew up in Yakima and attended schools in the West Valley district.
A helicopter, 40 searchers and Langley’s father were scouring the woods looking for the missing hiker this morning.
Ten years ago, Langley, who’s also an apartment-building manager, survived the attack of a grizzly bear while hiking in Yellowstone National Park.
Family and friends are hoping his luck still holds for this most recent hike in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest near Lake Wenatchee.
Langley, a 42-year-old avid outdoorsman and experienced backcountry hiker, hasn’t been heard from since Sunday, when friends say he left his Capitol Hill apartment.
He checked in at a forest trailhead Sunday. Family and friends, who expected him back by late Tuesday, have not heard from him.
Langley’s car, a 1970s Volkswagen Beetle, was found parked at the trailhead.
On Thursday morning, friends filed an overdue-hiker report, and the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office initiated an extensive ground and air search.
For more than a decade, Langley, who has a drama degree from the University of Washington, has been a member of Seattle’s Repertory Actors Theatre, a nonprofit group known for staging shows with primarily multiethnic and nontraditional casts.
“He’s a great actor, very natural,” Steven Ono, also a member of the theater group, said of Langley.
Ten years ago, Langley made news after he survived the grizzly attack. Afterward, he said assumed he was going to die when he encountered a female bear while hiking in Yellowstone.
He told a reporter he’d heard the pop when his pelvis was snapped and the crunch of jaws on his skull.
Recovering at home, his scalp a web of stitches, he vowed back then that his ordeal would not keep him from returning to the backcountry. And it didn’t.
Chelan County Sheriff Mike Harum is taking the report of Langley’s disappearance seriously.
The Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from the sheriff’s offices in Snohomish and King counties and several volunteers, has been conducting a search, concentrating on the Clark and Buck mountain areas, where Langley had said he would be hiking.
Besides a ground search with a search dog, helicopters from Chelan and King counties searched from the air Thursday afternoon, and a fixed-wing Cessna conducted an aerial search midday Friday.
“The country we’re looking at is steep, rugged, true wilderness area,” Chelan County Deputy Sheriff Gene Ellis said. “Much of it is off-trail, meaning we’re going through areas where there is no built-in trail.”
Ellis said Langley apparently started his hike at Little Giant trailhead, a turnout on the Chiwawa River road about a half-mile past 19 Mile Campground in the Central Cascades.
Nearly three dozen people have been searching, Ellis said, including volunteers from Chelan County as well as some of Langley’s hiking buddies.
E-mails have been circulating among the local theater community. Langley’s friends believe that because he is an experienced hiker, he was most likely well-prepared for the outing. But night temperatures have been dropping, and Ellis said snow in low elevations has been forecast for Monday.
“The people we have in there searching are spending the night in there. When daylight comes, they get up and continue searching,” Ellis said late Friday.

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/10/10/search-continues-for-missing-hiker-who-grew-up-in-yakima

[sarahhod]

The Chelan County Sheriff's office reports 42 yo George Langley, Jr has been overdue since Tuesday night from a hiking trip in the Glacier Peak Wilderness. His family reported the experienced hiker overdue Thursday morning The sheriff's office says two hikers reported seeing a lone hiker matching the missing man's description on Thursday and a crews aboard a Snohomish County Sheriff's helicopter spotted a sleeping bag and other supplies in the area. A search team hiked in and camped Friday night and Lt Maria Agnew says the search effort today (SAT) involves at least 40 people.
Searchers are concerned about snowfall expected in the area on Monday.

http://www.kpq.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1449

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[packy]

Hope they get a break and find him today. On the hiking forum it was said he moves fast and isn't usually late.

[sarahhod]

Missing Seattle hiker found dead

The body of missing Seattle hiker T.J. Langley was found Saturday afternoon in a remote section of the Glacier Peak Wilderness, the Chelan County Sheriff's office said.

By Eric Pryne (http://search.nwsource.com/search?searchtype=cq&sort=date&from=ST&byline=Eric%20Pryne) and Susan Gilmore (http://search.nwsource.com/search?searchtype=cq&sort=date&from=ST&byline=Susan%20Gilmore)
Seattle Times staff reporters

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T.J. Langley, of Seattle, was hiking in Glacier Peak Wilderness.


The body of missing Seattle hiker T.J. Langley was found Saturday afternoon in a remote section of the Glacier Peak Wilderness, the Chelan County Sheriff's office said.
Lt. Maria Agnew said two searchers on foot spotted his body near Luahna Peak, above Boulder Pass, at an elevation of about 8,600 feet. It appeared he had lost his footing and fallen about 300 feet, she said.
His body was recovered by helicopter and taken to a funeral home in Leavenworth, Agnew said.
Part of the route he followed crossed a glacier, she said, but it was unclear whether he was on ice or on a marked trail when he fell.
Langley, 42, failed to return Tuesday from what he told friends and family would be a two-day solo hike in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest near Lake Wenatchee.
On Thursday morning, friends filed an overdue-hiker report, and the Chelan County Sheriff's Office initiated an extensive ground and air search.
Langley, an avid outdoorsman and experienced backcountry hiker, checked in at a forest trailhead last Sunday. His car was found parked at the Little Giant trailhead, a turnout on the Chiwawa River road about a half-mile past 19 Mile Campground.
Earlier Saturday, search dogs, using the scent they got from a piece of gear left behind by Langley, were among dozens of searchers looking for the veteran actor.
Searchers said they spoke to other hikers who said they saw Langley on the trail, but whether that was Tuesday or Wednesday wasn't clear.
He had told friends where he was going and when he'd return, so it was easy to map a search area, said his sister, Joy Langley.
She was flying from her home in the Washington, D.C., area to Seattle on Saturday.
T.J. Langley, who managed an apartment building on Capitol Hill, was also a veteran actor with a drama degree from the University of Washington.
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He was a member of Seattle's Repertory Actors Theatre, a nonprofit group known for staging shows with primarily multiethnic and nontraditional casts.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010040539_hiker11m.html

[sarahhod]

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[sarahhod]

Hiker who survived grizzly attack found dead in Cascades
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George Terry "T.J." Langley is seen in an undated photo.

Story Published: Oct 10, 2009 at 7:59 PM PDT
Story Updated: Oct 10, 2009 at 11:44 PM PDT

By KOMO Staff (WebTeam@komo4news.com)

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SEATTLE - An experienced Seattle hiker has been found dead in the Glacier Peak Wilderness near Lake Wenatchee, apparently having been killed in a fall. Chelan County sheriff Lt. Maria Agnew said the body of George Terry "T.J." Langley Jr. was found about 2:30 p.m. Saturday by searchers off the Clark Trail near Little Giant Peak.
Agnew said Langley was hiking in rocky terrain at about the 8,600-foot level and fell about 300 feet.
Langley left Sunday on a hiking trip with plans to be back Tuesday night. But he never returned and his family reported him missing Thursday morning.
More than 40 people spent Saturday searching for the 42-year-old, who is an experienced backcountry hiker. Helicopters were also brought in to assist in the search.
Other hikers in the area said they had seen Langley heading for Buck Mountain on Wednesday, but investigators said it was unclear when exactly he fell.
Bear attack survivor
Ten years ago, Langley survived a grizzly attack in Yellowstone National Park.

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T.J. Langley is seen a week after he was attacked by a grizzly bear in 1999. In an interview with KOMO News a week after that 1999 attack, he said he was hiking in the park when he ran across two grizzly cubs.
At first, he said he was excited to get a close up look at wildlife - until the mother bear showed up and attacked him.
Langley says the mother bear finally let him go - but not before mauling his back, head, scalp, eyes and ribs.
Langley said he held no grudges against the big bear. "She was doing her job as a mom," Langley said at the time. "She didn't have to be quite that good as a mom."
After the grizzly attack, Langley managed to hike four miles back to the trailhead, where he waved down passing motorists who called for help. He was then flown to a hospital in Idaho.
He told KOMO at the time that he would go hiking again - but he would never again go hiking alone.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/63945287.html

[Nut44x4]

This is one of those 'geeeeeeze' moments. Shaking my head... how very sad.

[packy]

His friend tells of the search and how they found him. Post near the bottom by Heinrich.

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/914294/Re_Missing_climber_in_the_Buck

May he rest in peace!