Hailey Athay, 33, was reported missing from the Kelso, Washington area after being last seen around Thanksgiving 2024 at a South Kelso store and a local Chevron. Friends and family say she had gone into the woods in rural Rose Valley with a male friend to pick mushrooms; the acquaintance reportedly returned but Hailey did not. All communication from her stopped, and her family filed a missing person report with the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office in early January 2025.

Searches by volunteers and authorities covered Rose Valley, Toutle and areas along the Ocean Beach Highway. In April 2026 hikers on Weyerhaeuser property near Rose Valley Road found clothing and bones, prompting a search that recovered nearly complete skeletal remains with clothing and personal items in a previously searched area. The Cowlitz County Coroner used dental records to confirm the remains were Hailey’s. Her cause and manner of death remain under investigation.

Does anyone who frequented the Rose Valley or Weyerhaeuser trails around late 2024 recall seeing Hailey or her car, or remember the mushroom foraging trip?