Rocky Mountain National Park will send out a dog team this weekend to look for a hiker who has now been missing for three weeks, and will then reassess whether to search efforts beyond that.
Brian Joseph Perri, 38, was reported missing July 5, nearly a week after he went hiking in the park June 30 and sent a photo of himself atop the 13,911-foot summit of Mount Meeker to a friend.
In the days after he went missing, air and ground crews searched every day in 22.5 square miles in the area near Mount Meeker. But as weeks have gone by, search expeditions have been fewer and farther between.
The park said it sent out a dog team last weekend but did not announce any other searches this week, though Perri’s friends did organize their own search.
Park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson said the park would send in a dog team this weekend to once again search the area and would be “analyzing and continuing investigations,” but could not determine if it would continue to schedule searches.
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