In the late summer of 1999, a 29-year-old man named Joel Matthew Thompson was embarking on an adventure he had carefully planned. On August 31, 1999, he made a phone call to his father from St. Louis, Missouri. He explained that he was in the city visiting friends and gathering the last of his supplies for a long hiking trip. Joel's ambitious plan was to travel to the Portland, Oregon, area and from there, begin a journey south along the Pacific Crest Trail, which spans from the border of W
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