Michael Hugh Camilletti, a 56-year-old retired Army Special Forces colonel, was last seen at his Stanardsville, Virginia home on May 22, 2011. An experienced outdoorsman who often undertook solo hiking and caving trips without telling others, his absence did not prompt immediate alarm; a family member reported him missing on June 12, 2011.

On June 27, 2011, a West Virginia State Police trooper located Camilletti’s vehicle off Williams River Road near the Monongahela National Forest. Investigators found a note in the car in which he said he intended to hike the North-South Trail in the Cranberry Wilderness, starting May 23 and planning to exit on May 27. Search-and-rescue teams, including units with cadaver dogs, conducted extensive searches in the rugged Yew Mountains but found no trace of him.

The disappearance remains unsolved. Does anyone who spent time in the Cranberry Wilderness or on the North-South Trail in late May 2011 have information that could help?