Ranger
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He never came back.
A search was mounted on the 20th.
It lasted for two weeks.
They found his truck at a trailhead eight miles northwest of where I was currently sitting.
They did not find his camp.
They did not find his rifle.
They did not find his body.
I was 15 years old.
My father cried at the kitchen table.
Dale's wife moved to Arizona the following spring.
The case was eventually closed as a presumed death by misadventure.
He was 41 when he disappeared.
He would have been 66 in October of 2022.
The man sitting across from me looked 53.
I looked at him harder.
He was thinner than Dale had been.
His hair was gray where Dale's had been brown.
His posture was different.
His voice was different.
Pitched higher than Dale's natural register and with a softer set of vowels that suggested he had been working at sounding like someone from Idaho for a while.