Charles Bryan Gay, 28 and known as Bryan, disappeared after a day hike from Skagway, Alaska, on September 26, 2000. A geologist by trade, he told a hostel manager that morning he intended to hike to Upper Dewey Lakes to collect rock specimens, planned to return the same day, and was expected to board a ferry to British Columbia that evening. He never returned and left his personal belongings at the hostel.

Searches by the Alaska State Troopers and by family turned up nothing in the immediate aftermath. A year later a sign-in book in a cabin at the top of Upper Dewey Lake contained a final entry signed Bryan G reading Great day, great hike, but this goddamn pen ran out of ink, confirming he reached the lake but offering no explanation for his disappearance. The investigation remains open and the family continues to seek answers.

If anyone had contact with Bryan in Skagway around September 26, 2000, or remembers seeing him on the trail to Upper Dewey Lakes, please come forward with information.