CIRCUMSTANCES: Still Missing
Age: 69. Last Seen: September 24, 2022
LKP: Golar Wash (Truck was found abandoned on a rugged 4×4 road just outside Death Valley National Park on September 30, 2022)
Circumstances indicate that Dennis ran out of gas while driving his truck into an extremely remote area near Death Valley National Park. He appeared to have attempted to call his wife Donna on the morning of September 25 and it is uncertain if this call occurred before or after he ran out of gas. The area was experiencing triple digit heat during the time Dennis went missing and the location is so remote that there is no cell service for many miles.
Dennis is a former engineer from Ramona, CA. He had section-hiked parts of the PCT, but this was his first trip to Death Valley.
Members of the Fowler-O’Sullivan Foundation made two trips to where Dennis’s truck was found to conduct drone image grid searches of the area. The FOF Image Review Team searched thousands of images but no signs of Dennis were found. A volunteer with FOF who is a licensed pilot hopes to conduct a fly over search of a large salt-pan near Dennis’s LKP once the weather cools.