Kevin Lafleur was 31 when he left Glacier, Washington, around April 25, 2008, intending to climb and ski Mount Baker via the Coleman Glacier route. He was an experienced mountaineer and a teacher from Lynden who told friends that route before departing. Concern grew when he missed a job on Monday, April 28, and a friend reported him missing.

Searchers found Lafleur’s vehicle at the snowline on Glacier Creek Road, and a multi-agency effort including the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office, Bellingham Mountain Rescue, Skagit Mountain Rescue and volunteer friends conducted a focused two-day search of the lower Coleman Glacier using snowmobiles. Severe weather, fresh snowfall and high winds hampered the operation, and no trace of Lafleur was located before the official search was suspended. Experts on the mountain consider a crevasse fall the likely explanation, but no conclusive evidence was found.

Did anyone in the climbing community or on Mount Baker at that time see Kevin or his party on or after April 25, 2008?