Celeste Hensley, 20, vanished on August 10, 1976, while hiking in the Cloud Peak Wilderness in the Bighorn Mountains near Kaycee, Wyoming. She had been with two female friends who decided to climb Cloud Peak without her; Hensley, feeling tired, stayed near the trailhead. When the friends returned about 5:00 p.m., she was gone. She was not carrying supplies at the time, only a candy bar.

The next day hikers reported seeing a woman matching Hensley’s description walking toward a nearby lake, but they were too far away to confirm identity or call to her. Searches using bloodhounds, helicopters, and volunteers on horseback covered roughly 80 square miles of rugged terrain but turned up nothing. Early suggestions that she left because of marital problems were rejected by her family, who said she had been excited about the trip. After two weeks the search was suspended and no significant leads have emerged.

Does anyone remember hiking in Cloud Peak in August 1976 or have information about a woman seen near that lake that day?