Timothy John Barnes

…He was last seen on the trail that morning, and when he failed to return by evening, the alarm was raised. Searchers combed the Tenaya Lake area for days, but Timothy Barnes had vanished without a trace. There were no tracks, no clues, no calls for help heard. Just like Stacy seven years earlier, Tim seemed to have been swallowed by the wilderness.…

…On July 5, 1988, Timothy John Barnes, a 25-year-old college graduate and avid outdoorsman, laced up his boots for a solo day hike in Yosemite's high country. It was the tail end of the Fourth of July weekend, and Tim had told friends he planned a trek to the Polydome Lakes, a cluster of remote alpine ponds north of Tenaya Lake.…

…The 1980s saw other inexplicable disappearances in Yosemite, each one leaving investigators scratching their heads. Just a few years after Stacey vanished, another young visitor would set off on a hike and never return. The Day Hiker Who Never Came Back, Timothy John Barnes, 1988…