Isaac Lewis

It was a total blur.

My feet were going numb.

And they always say when they talk about what happened, well, if you have inexperienced people on very low rations, and they're getting weaker every day, and in a place none of them knows, with no real sense of progress, no talk, and then maybe if a yanni gets ingested in the warm weather, then it could have accounted for what happened next.

But the toxicology didn't show it, so that proves it for me.

We were clean.

I think it was the place.

And with Peter, you know, the story with him tells itself.

Come to find out after it all happened that when he was like 11, a friend of his disappeared.

His family invited the kid to go camping with them.

And in the middle of the night, for some reason, he got up and wandered down the trail.

And at some point he fell into a gorge and died.

And Peter saw him leave his tent, so apparently he carried this awful guilt with him all his life.

Just nested.

Then, when he was grown up, he led these hiking meetups, and one day he went, and they never knew if this was by accident or on purpose, but he took a group really close to where the kid had fallen and died.

And maybe that turned something really dark in him that wasn't even quite there before.

Because, oh god, he started, like, dyeing his hair and wearing weird clothes.

And supposedly his signature even changed somehow.

And there's a photo of him in the same exact kind of t-shirt that his friend wore the night he died.

Same logo on it, same everything.

That's the t-shirt he had out on Strongbone Road.