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| ELL | Dec 23 2007, 02:25 PM Post #1 |
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Case of missing hiker continues to baffle By PERRY BACKUS - Missoulian - 12/23/07 CORVALLIS — From his kitchen table, Carl Bolick can look across the Bitterroot Valley to the place his wife vanished off the face of the earth last summer. Barbara Bolick was only supposed to have been gone a few hours that morning of July 18. Instead, her hiking partner said the experienced hiker disappeared in less than a minute as he took one last look at the scenic view. The view was what brought Barbara back time after time to this place. Carl’s wife of 14 years was an energetic hostess who loved showing visitors the scenery from Bear Creek Overlook. On this morning, she’d volunteered to take Jim Ramaker, a friend of her husband’s cousin from California, for the relatively easy hike up to the overlook in the Bitterroot Mountains. “Any time anyone came to visit, she’d always take them up there,” Carl said, staring out the window toward the cloud-shrouded mountains. “The view up there is absolutely spectacular, just breathtaking.” Carl’s cousin was feeling the effects of one too many frozen drinks the night before and decided not to go that morning. Carl was still sleeping when Barbara came and told him she and Ramaker were going hiking to the overlook. The last thing he told her was not to worry about dinner. He’d take care of it. “I’ll see you a little later,” she said softly as she walked out the door. It was sometime between 8:30 and 9 a.m. Carl spent the morning working on a carpentry project. When noon rolled around, his cousin started getting a little antsy about the fact Barbara and Jim hadn’t returned. “I wasn’t concerned a bit,” Carl remembered. His wife was an avid hiker. She kept herself fit by running, riding and taking long walks into the mountains. And, as an added bit of insurance, Carl knew she had the .357 Magnum pistol he’d bought her packed away in her daypack. “I always used to kid about packing that gun away,” he said. “If she met up with a mountain lion or a bear, she wasn’t going to have time to dig around and find that pistol. She was only about 5 feet tall and slight in build. She only weighed about 115 pounds.” Still, Carl was sure his wife could take care of herself. She’d never venture far off the trail. And she didn’t like heights. He knew she’d not get too close to the edge of any precipice. By 1:30, Carl’s cousin was getting scared. He told her to calm down. Maybe they’d had a flat tire. An hour later and she was really upset. “She told me I needed to call somebody,” Carl said. “About that time, the phone rang. It was a Forest Service law enforcement officer. She asked me if my wife’s name was Barbara and I instantly thought something terrible had happened. Barbara’s been reported missing, the officer said. “I said to her, ‘No way,’ ” he remembered. Carl told the officer he’d meet her at the trailhead. In the back of his mind as he began the 20-mile drive to the Bear Creek Overlook trailhead, Carl was certain his wife would be there waiting for him. “I just couldn’t accept it,” he said. “I just knew that she was going to show up one way or another, but it didn’t happen. It still hasn’t happened.” He’s still waiting for her to return. “This whole case challenges our life experience,” said Perry Johnson, lead investigator on the Barbara Bolick case for the Ravalli County Sheriff’s Department. “Whenever we go hiking, we expect that we’ll return to our vehicle with our hiking partners. We think nothing about it. That’s just the way it is.” Only this time it wasn’t. On this morning, the road leading up the trailhead was blocked less than a mile down the hill so a Forest Service crew could replace a culvert. By the time the crew arrived this day, there was already a pair of vehicles parked at the road closure sign: Ramaker’s vehicle and a light-colored older SUV that could have been a Chevrolet Blazer with Missoula County license plates. The Forest Service crew was busy digging up the roadway when a pair of young men in their early 20s came strolling into the work site. One of the men was considerably darker-skinned than the other. “They were well-tanned, average, fit young guys,” Johnson said. “They walked right through the construction site. They stopped and talked for a bit.” The crew remembered the black collie-like dog with white markings that enjoyed a few moments in the creek. The morning was already turning hot. The men walked off, seemingly without a care. Somewhere between 45 minutes and an hour later, Ramaker walked into the site and asked the crew if they’d seen Barbara. One of the road crew walked with him back to the vehicle to see if she was there. Ramaker walked back up to the overlook one more time. When he returned about an hour and a half later, he told the crew he needed help. He couldn’t find Barbara anywhere. Ramaker told investigators later that he and Barbara stopped at the overlook and had a snack. They’d seen the two young men and said something like, “How are you doing?” The pair then enjoyed the mountain views for maybe a half-hour or 40 minutes before deciding to head back down the hill. Ramaker said Barbara was only about 20 or 30 feet away when he turned to take one more look at the scenery. It was a short look, maybe 45 seconds, maybe a minute. When he turned around, Barbara was gone. It was the last time he saw her, he’d tell investigators later. “This is really a tough one for me,” Johnson said. “It’s outside of my scope of experience. I haven’t been able to find anyone else who’s had a similar experience. We’re talking about a minute and then you look back and she’s gone.” The area isn’t tightly timbered, and there is a lot of loose shale rock around it. “It’s hard to creep quietly across that loose shale rock,” Johnson said. “You’d make some noise. Just the fact that someone simply disappears like that is a cause for concern.” “I just don’t have that life experience,” he said. “How could that possibly happen?” Johnson believes the key to the case lies in identifying the two young men who were hiking the trail that day. He assumes they were local guys because of the Missoula license plates and the fact they were hiking on a Wednesday morning. The family of Barbara Bolick has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to their identification. “I don’t suspect them of doing anything wrong,” Johnson said. “I don’t think they were even in the wrong place at the wrong time.” What the men can do is confirm that Barbara Bolick was there that morning. “Right now, I don’t have a witness to confirm or conflict with the information we’ve gathered so far,” he said. “These guys are the key to the whole thing.” Johnson is surprised that no one has stepped forward to help identify the pair. “This is the first time that we’ve had a $10,000 reward offered to help us locate a witness,” he said. “The person who helps us locate them will get $10,000.” As of now, Barbara Bolick’s case remains a mystery. Right after her disappearance, the sheriff’s department deployed search teams, brought in highly trained dogs and even called in high-tech infrared helicopters to scour the area. Johnson said they never found a thing. Ramaker has returned to California, but continues to cooperate in the investigation, Johnson said. “He’s been cooperative and returned all of our calls,” Johnson said. “He’s stayed in contact with us. Until something else happens — we find Barbara or find her body — I think he’s just a witness.” “I want to be fair to Jim Ramaker,” Johnson said. “There’s no evidence he did anything to Barbara.” Meanwhile, Johnson said Barbara’s family and friends can only wait and hope. “I think these kinds of cases are just devastating to families,” Johnson said. “There’s no closure. Every day they are looking for something, some kind of answer.” It’s going on five months since Barbara disappeared and the phone calls to Carl’s home are more infrequent now. The couple met when Carl was still an Air Force officer working on an air base in New Jersey. They decided later to move to Montana, but Barbara really didn’t take to the wind and cold of his hometown in Dillon. The first time he saw the Bitterroot was with her. She fell in love with the place and they eventually bought some land near Darby. Later they settled on a home near Corvallis. “We used to hike a bit together before I had my heart attack and couldn’t go anymore,” Carl said. “I think she hiked every canyon here. She knew them all pretty well.” It’s hard for Carl to fathom that she disappeared on the trail that was her favorite. “There are a lot of theories bandied about,” he said. Some think foul play was involved. Others have wondered if a mountain man spotted in the area might have played a part. Still others have asked Carl if he thought maybe his wife had just walked away. In his mind, Carl is sure she didn’t just leave. She wouldn’t have left without her beloved dog that had adopted her at a gun show. Nor would she leave her cat. All of her childhood keepsakes were still at the house. Her billfold, identification, and passport were all still there. But mostly, Carl believes she wouldn’t have done that to her family and friends. “Over the last five months, no one has heard anything from her,” he said. “I’m not the only one agonizing over this. Her family, my son, my daughter, my mother, our friends. It’s been hard on a lot of people.” Barbara was 55 when she disappeared. She would have turned 56 on Aug. 25. People don’t want to talk about it as much. “It’s to the point that people don’t want to bring it up any more,” he said. “It’s too emotional. ... The only answer that I have right now is that I just don’t know. I don’t know what happened to her. “None of it makes any sense,” he said, staring out the window toward the Bitterroot Mountains. “None of it makes any sense. She was only 20 feet away. That’s not that far.” http://www.helenair.com/articles/2007/12/2...01122307_02.txt |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 4 2008, 06:53 PM Post #2 |
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http://ravallicountynews.com/Archive/2007/...29Full.htm#more Questions Remain in Bolick Disappearance December 7, 2007, 10:46 am by Timothy Mitchell It's been almost five months since Corvallis resident, mother, and wife Barbara Bolick, 55, went missing on a supposed short morning hike up Bear Creek Overlook. Jim Raymaker was her hiking companion and told investigators he turned away for a few seconds and when he turned back she had “disappeared.” “Not much has changed since July,” a frustrated husband Carl Bolick said. In spite of thousands of hours spent by Ravalli County and Missoula County Search and Rescue teams, volunteers, law enforcement, Lifeflight, Careflight, Montana Air Guard, Forest Service, and even a helicopter with infrared capability sent by Homeland Security, nothing has turned up. “I know a lot of people have gone up there searching. I've gone up there searching and there is no sign,” Bolick explained. Raymaker was a trusted family acquaintance, according to Carl Bolick, and was the last person to see Barbara Bolick. No one else that has been interviewed saw Barbara up there. “Raymaker is the only source that Barbara Bolick was up there that day,” Ravalli County Detective Perry Johnson said. “We are wondering if she was ever up there.” MORE... Forest Service crews observed Raymaker leaving alone. A crew also saw two unidentified youth with a dog in a light-colored SUV that had Missoula County plates. “It's mind boggling to me. There's a reward and everything else,” husband Carl Bolick said. “I don't understand why they haven't come forward or been identified.” A $10,000 reward has been offered for information about the two potential witnesses. “They aren't in trouble. They can even collect the money themselves,” Johnson said. “They came off the mountain earlier than Raymaker did. We have gone to a lot of time and effort to appeal to these boys as to what they saw that day.” With no suspects and after extensive interviews with Raymaker, the case hasn't moved forward. “I doubt someone would be able to grab her without Raymaker being aware that some altercation was going on,” Johnson said. “We can't eliminate foul play; nor can we suggest foul play. We just don't know.” Bolick echoed the detective's words. “I've gone over and over and over this again and again and I don't have any answers,” Bolick said. “It doesn't add up. No answers. No theories. It doesn't make any sense.” “The real difficult part is not knowing and it has gone on for so long. We don't have any answers.” Bolick explained, “Our families are taking it hard. Anything that can be done to resolve this has to be done. We need an answer.” After 19 missions, searching nearly all of the trails and surrounding areas on both sides of the Bitterroot Valley, Barbara Bolick is still classified as a missing person. “I don't think she was or is up there,” Johnson said. “But those boys were up there and we haven't located them either.” |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 4 2008, 06:54 PM Post #3 |
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http://www.carolesundfoundation.com/sectio...sing?person=534 DOB: 1951-08-25 Date Missing: 2007-07-18 From: Corvallis, MT Age ATD: 55 Gender: female Race: Glasses/Contacts: Identifying Characteristics: Clothing: Jewelry: Circumstances of Disappearance: Barbara went missing while on a hiking trip. She was an experienced hiker who was familiar with the trail she was on. She has not been seen since. Investigative Agency: Ravalli County Sheriff's Office Phone: 406-375-4005 Case #: |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 4 2008, 07:01 PM Post #4 |
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http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2007/07...cjcgjjigjgi.txt Ravalli County officials searching for missing hiker By The Associated Press - 07/30/2007 MISSOULA (AP) — Authorities in Ravalli County are searching for a 55-year-old woman last seen hiking in the Bear Creek Overlook area west of Victor. Barbara Bolick became separated from 58-year-old Jim Ramaker on July 18, and hasn’t been seen since. Ramaker said he peered over the overlook sometime between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. that day. When he turned around, Bolick was gone. Authorities want to talk with anyone who had contact with Bolick or saw her around the trail head that day, particularly two young men who were seen hiking in the area with a black, mixed breed dog. The men may have been driving a light-colored sport utility vehicle with Missoula County license plates. Although Sheriff Chris Hoffman is not ruling out foul play, he said the men were not considered suspects and help find the missing woman. ‘‘Right now, they are not suspects, they’re only witnesses who could give us extremely important information in our efforts to bring Barbara home,’’ he said. ‘‘We believe that this is survivable. We think we can still find Barbara Bolick alive.’’ Bolick is 5 feet tall and weighs 115 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes, and was last seen wearing tan shorts and a pastel-colored shirt. She was also carrying a black day pack. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 4 2008, 07:06 PM Post #5 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 4 2008, 07:12 PM Post #6 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/bolick_barbara.html Barbara Bolick Above Images: Bolick, circa 2006 Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: July 18, 2007 from Corvallis, Montana Classification: Lost/Injured Missing Date of Birth: August 25, 1951 Age: 55 years old Height and Weight: 5'0, 115 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A pastel-colored shirt and tan shorts. Details of Disappearance Bolick was last seen in Corvallis, Montana on July 18, 2007. She was on a hiking trip with a visiting friend at the time; they were going to Bear Creek Overlook in the Bitterroot Mountains. Her friend stated he stopped to look at a scenic view between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Bolick was 20 or 30 feet away from him at the time. When he turned around about a minute later, she was gone. She was carrying a black day back at the time of her disappearance; it contained a .357 Magnum pistol. She is an experienced hiker and very familiar with the area. Authorities announced they were seeking two other hikers as possible witnesses in Bolick's disappearance. Two men in their early twenties, accompanied by a black mixed-breed dog with white markings, were seen hiking in the area around the time she went missing. One of them is described as dark-skinned with black hair, and the other had a medium complexion and reddish hair. Both had athletic builds.They may have been driving a light-colored, older model sport utility vehicle (SUV) with Missoula County, Montana license plates. It should be emphasized that neither of the men is considered a suspect in Bolick's case, but investigators believe they could provide valuable information. An extensive search of the area turned up no sign of Bolick. The friend who accompanied her on the hike cooperated with investigators and is not considered a suspect in her case. She is not believed to have left of her own accord, because she left behind all of her belongings, including her pet dog and cat, billfold, identification and passport. Her husband stated she was afraid of heights and would not have gone near the edge of a precipice, or left the trail. Bolick's case remains unsolved. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Ravalli County Sheriff's Office 406-375-4005 Source Information Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation North American Missing Persons Network The Montana Standard The Missoulian Montana's News Station The Bitterroot Star Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004. Last updated February 11, 2008; casefile added. Charley Project Home |
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| ELL | Apr 11 2008, 10:23 AM Post #7 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 23 2008, 03:06 PM Post #8 |
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By Sutton Stokes, 6-18-08 A 2007 photo of Barbara Bolick. In a perfect world, it would have been impossible to forget the name of Barbara Bolick, the Corvallis resident who disappeared while hiking near Bear Creek, west of Victor, almost one year ago. In a perfect world, Barbara’s name would have been kept in front of us all this time, because in a perfect world it would have been impossible to get over this kind of mystery. It would have been incomprehensible that a 55-year-old mother of two could end up in the wind like this. Of course it’s not a perfect world, and people disappear all the time. Unable as I was at first to remember Barbara’s name or the name of the place she disappeared from or any other very specific details from the posters I noticed around town soon after my arrival last August, it was an education to see how little use it is to perform a Google search for “missing woman Montana.” There are a lot of missing people, especially women, including an Anaconda woman who vanished less than a month ago, leaving her car full of groceries parked behind a bar. As for Barbara Bolick, here is a summary of what was reported in the local media concerning her disappearance. On the morning of July 18, around 9 a.m., Barbara left home for a hike with Jim Ramaker, a friend of her husband’s cousin; the cousin and Ramaker were visiting from California. The group had been up late the night before, and neither the cousin nor Barbara’s husband, Carl, felt like joining the hike. Before leaving, Barbara told Carl that she and Ramaker were headed for Bear Creek Overlook, a favorite spot of Barbara’s where she often took visitors to show them the view. According to Ramaker, he and Barbara took the planned hike and stopped at the overlook for a snack. They stayed at the overlook for about a half hour before starting back down. Ramaker says he took a last look at the view while Barbara started walking. He turned to catch up with her less than a minute later. Barbara was gone and has never been seen again. Ramaker walked back down to where a Forest Service crew was doing road construction near the trailhead and asked if the workers had seen Barbara. He and a crew member walked back to Ramaker’s car — still no sign of Barbara. Ramaker says he then walked back up to the overlook; the Forest Service crew saw him return about 90 minutes later, when he reported that he still couldn’t find the missing woman, and so someone called a ranger. The implausibility of Ramaker’s story is one of the marks in favor of its being the truth. The area around the overlook is described in one news article as “lightly timbered,” the ground covered in shale fragments. Every footstep makes a noise, and there are few hiding places. But if Ramaker had been responsible for Barbara’s disappearance, couldn’t he have come up with a more believable story? Why not say that Barbara had fallen and injured herself, and that she disappeared while he walked back down to get help? The official position of the Ravalli County Sheriff’s Department is that Ramaker is not a suspect, though a detective named Perry Johnson gave the Missoulian the decidedly ambiguous statement that “until something else happens — we find Barbara or find her body — I think he’s just a witness.” At the time of the disappearance and for at least several months afterward, investigators were looking for two additional potential witnesses, a pair of young men who passed through the Forest Service work site about an hour before Ramaker first appeared looking for Barbara. The men were driving a Chevy Blazer with Missoula County plates and had a black and white collie with them. Ramaker says that he and Barbara ran into these men on the trail. If so, they are the only people who can confirm that Barbara was in fact on the mountain that day, because Ramaker’s car was already parked at the trailhead — next to the Chevy Blazer — when the Forest Service crew arrived for work. But if investigators have ever located these two men, I can find no mention of it on-line. Articles also mention a “mountain man” who had been seen in the area, although investigators are not reported as ever actively looking for him. Barbara was a small woman, about five feet and 115 pounds, and — though she habitually carried a .357 Magnum while hiking — her habit was to keep it in her backpack, where it would have done her no good in an emergency. Still, given the terrain at the overlook, it is hard to imagine that someone was able to subdue Barbara without Ramaker overhearing. Easier is to imagine Barbara sneaking away and hiding, although if she had decided to leave her husband and start over, why not at least take her wallet and identification, which she had left at home? People do sometimes run away and adopt new identities, but to do so requires not only strong motivation but some very specialized knowledge, neither of which Barbara seems likely to have had. Perhaps Barbara snuck away as a prank, intending to surprise Ramaker later on the trail or at the car, only to meet with some misadventure along the way. I haven’t spoken to anyone who knew her, so I can’t say if this would have been in character. My guess from reading the articles about her disappearance is that it would not have been. So we are left to wonder what happened that day and whether Barbara is alive or dead. Her story is a reminder that no one is promised tomorrow and that you never know when goodbye means goodbye. For more like this, read the rest of the Missoula Notebook http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/where...lick/C564/L564/
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 23 2008, 03:42 PM Post #9 |
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http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:r9HU4...lnk&cd=14&gl=us Reward money offered in case of missing Corvallis hiker Updated: Sep 22, 2007 07:13 PM EDT Reporting from KPAX in Missoula The friends and family of missing hiker Barbara Bolick are now offering up to $10,000 in reward money for any information about her whereabouts. It's been almost two months now since Bolick, 55, disappeared while hiking near the Bear Creek Overlook Trial west of Victor. Investigators tell us that they are still operating on the same leads they received in the beginning which leads them to believe that perhaps Bolick wasn't on that mountain the day she disappeared on July 18th. Authorities in Ravalli County say they have used every resource possible to search the area the mountain and Bolick's husband Carl tells us that she went hiking that morning with his cousin's boyfriend Jim Ramaker of California. Ramaker claims that he and Bolick finished their lunch and started to head back down the trail. He says Bolick was roughly 20 feet in front of him and he turned away from her for 45 seconds and when he looked back she was gone. Ramaker also told Barbara's family there were two men on the trail at the same time. Sheriff officials say they're hoping to get any information about these two possible witnesses. As a result family and friends have come together to offer a $10,000 reward in hopes of finding any new leads. Carl Bolick tells me that he and friends continue to hike that mountain looking for Barbara and that it's been the support of his family which has got him through the past two months. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (from September 8, 2007) Friends and family are offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information about a woman from Corvallis who's been missing for almost two months. Barbara Bolick, 55, disappeared while hiking near the Bear Creek Overlook Trail west of Victor and has not been seen or heard from since. In hopes of bringing her home Bolick's friends and family have posted a $10,000 reward for information that leads authorities to the identities of two men who are thought to have been the last to see Bolick. They are looking for two young men who were accompanied by a black, mix-breed dog with white marking. The men seen were driving a light colored, older body style SUV that had Missoula County license plates. If you have any information regarding these two men or if you were hiking the Bear Creek Overlook Trail on July 18th contact Ravalli County authorities at 363-3033 or Crimestoppers at 363-0062. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (from August 10, 2007) The search for a missing hiker missing in the Bitterroot Valley who disappeared three weeks ago has come to an end but a national organization is now stepping in to try and bring Barbara Bolick safely home. Search and Rescue dog teams, Homeland Security air services and helicopter searches had all been looking for Bolick but with no new leads officials in Ravalli County have called off the search for missing Bolick but Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman says they aren't giving up hope. "Yes the investigation does continue, and for our purposes this will be an open case until we find out where Barbara Bolick is." The search for the 55-yar-old has come to an end but the investigation into the disappearance is continuing thanks to the Carole-Sund/Carrington Foundation. The national group is offering a $5,000 reward for any information about this case. Bolick disappeared on July 18th when her hiking companion from California says he turned away for a few seconds and when he looked back Barbara was gone. If you have any information regarding Bolick's disappearance you're asked to call the Ravalli County Sheriff's Department. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (from August 3, 2007) There's still no sign of a woman who went missing while hiking in the Bitterroot. Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman tells us they have had no witnesses come forward and have no new leads in the disappearance of Barbara Bolick, 55, who went missing west of Victor on July 18th. Bolick weighs about 115 pounds, has brown hair and was last seen wearing khaki shorts, a pastel colored shirt and a black backpack. Sheriff Hoffman says search teams have combed the initial area of the mountain where Bolick went missing and found nothing and that "no one wants to give up on this - however at some point we are either going to have to find Barbara or give up the search". Sheriff Hoffman says this weekend search and rescue officials will run dog teams through a different area of the mountain. Monday will mark nearly three weeks since Bolick disappeared and authorities in Ravalli County say they'll decide at that point, based on their search this weekend, whether or not it's time for the search to come to an end. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (from July 23, 2007) The search efforts for a woman from Corvallis who went missing nearly two weeks ago are continuing with are dog teams looking for Barbara Bolick, but so far there's no sign of her. She was last seen hiking in the Bear Creek Overlook area near Victor when she vanished. Bolick, 55, disappeared nearly two weeks ago and her husband Carl Bolick says he's looking for answers. Barbara was hiking with an acquaintance in the Bear Creek Overlook area on a Wednesday morning and witnesses say she disappeared when she was on her way back to the trail head. Carl Bolick says she knew her way around because it was one of her favorite places to go hiking. "She was an avid hiker, she's been up a lot of these canyons." Meanwhile neighbors are recruiting volunteers to help find Barbara and Carl has passed out flyers in Victor, Stevensville, Florence, Lolo and Missoula. Barbara's family says they will continue to keep hope alive. Authorities are looking for two men who looked like they were in their early 20s driving a white or light colored Chevy Blazer, and had a border collie with them. The first hiker is average height, has dark hair and facial hair. The second hiker was wearing a white T-shirt and had red or light colored hair. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (from July 28, 2007) It's been 11 days and there's still no word on the whereabouts of a woman from Corvallis who was last seen hiking near Victor. However officials say that with the public's help they may still be able to find Barbara Bolick, 55, alive. Investigators with the Ravalli County Sheriff's Department say they are still looking for two men in their 20's who may have been hiking in the area the same day. Bolick is 5' tall and weighs 115 pounds. Anyone with information on the case can contact authorities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (from July 27, 2007) The Ravalli County sheriff is pleading for the public's help in locating a missing Corvallis woman who disappeared while hiking last Wednesday. Barbara Bolick was hiking with a companion in the Bear Creek Overlook near Victor when she disappeared. The Ravalli Sheriff's office is seeking two young men who were also hiking that morning that may have seen Bolick. Bolick disappeared between the hours of 9 a.m. and noon on the 18th. She is 5-feet-tall and weighs 115 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing tan shorts, a pastel colored shirt, and carrying a black day pack. If you have any information, please contact the Ravalli County Sheriff's Department. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's still no word on the whereabouts of Barbara Bolick who disappeared last Wednesday while hiking in the Bear Overlook area near Victor. This isn't the first time that a hiker has disappeared and Missoula County Search and Rescue chief R.J. Nelson explains the first thing they do when someone goes missing start an initial land search. Officials conduct interviews with any witnesses to get useful information and then start what's called a "hasty search", putting a lot of people on the ground to cover as much land as possible. "We have to look at the distance that someone can travel given their means of transportation whether it's on foot or horseback or an ATV or whatever, and the more time that goes by from where they were last seen to when we relocate them, the bigger that search area gets." Search and rescue officials also say they will exhaust every resource they have before a search is suspended and that decision is made by the sheriff's department once it's decided that the missing individual is no longer in the search area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (from July 25, 2007) The search for a woman from Corvallis who disappeared in the Bitterroot Valley near Victor last week has been put on hold. Ravalli County Sheriff, Chris Hoffman says that as of 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday search and rescue dog teams had found no information to help them locate Barbara Bolick ,55, who was last seen hiking in the Bear overlook area west of Victor. Sheriff Hoffman tells us they are now regrouping with air support teams and search and rescue forces from across the state to come up with a new plan in hopes of bringing Bolick home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's still no sign of a hiker who's gone missing in the Bitterroot Valley. Authorities say they'll keep looking for Barbara Bolick, 55, who disappeared last Wednesday. However if she's not found soon then authorities say they'll have to regroup and try to come up with another plan to find her. Bolick disappeared after she became separated from a companion while hiking in the Bear overlook area west of Victor. She's 5' tall, weighs 115 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. Bolick was last seen wearing tan shorts, a pastel colored shirt and carrying a black day pack. Hawk Chilcote with Ravalli County Search and Rescue says they're looking for two men who might have information about Bolick's whereabouts. "We have confirmation from a Forest Service road crew who saw them in an overlapping time frame as well as her hiking partner who said he saw them, we are hoping they are watching and contact Missoula County Sheriff's department or the Ravalli County Sheriff's Department." So far Ravalli County has seen help from Missoula County Search and Rescue as well as dog teams from across the state. They have also received air support from Life Flight, Care Flight, Malmstrom Air Force Base and the Department of Homeland Security. If you were in the area please call Ravalli County Sheriff's Detective Sergeant Dave Potter at 375-4009. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (from July 23, 2007) The Ravalli County Sheriff's Office is continuing to search for a woman from Corvallis who went missing west of Victor last Wednesday. On Monday authorities brought in dog teams from Helena to assist in the search for Barbara Bolick, 54, who was last seen on the Bear Overlook Trail west of Victor. Officials say they are also looking for two men who were hiking in the area that day who might have ran into Bolick on the trail. Officials with the Ravalli County Sheriff's Office tell us that the men's account of the day's events could prove critical in finding the Bolick. She weighs about 115 pounds, has brown hair and was last seen wearing khaki shorts, a pastel colored shirt and a black backpack. If you were in the area please call Ravalli County Sheriff's Detective Sergeant Dave Potter at 375-4009. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (from July 22, 2007) Police in Ravalli County have release a photograph of a woman from Corvallis who went missing west of Victor last Wednesday. Search teams are trying to find Barbara Bolick, 54, who was last seen on the Bear Overlook Trail west of Victor and on Monday authorities say they plan to deploy dogs to help in the search. Bolick weighs about 115 pounds with brown hair and was last seen wearing khaki shorts, a pastel colored shirt and a black backpack. The Ravalli County Sheriff's Department is looking for two men who were hiking in the area who may have encountered Bolick. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Sergeant Dave Potter at 375-4009.
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 23 2008, 03:47 PM Post #10 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 27 2010, 08:08 AM Post #11 |
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http://www.doj.mt.gov/enforcement/missingp...?RecordKey=2786 Name: BOLICK, BARBARA ASSUNTA Aliases: Gender: FEMALE Date of Birth: 08/25/1951 Race: WHITE Hair Color: UNKNOWN OR COMPLETELY BALD Eye Color: BROWN Height: 5' 0'' Weight: 115 LBS. Date of Last Contact: 07/18/2007 Investigating Agency: RAVALLI COUNTY SHERIFF |
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