19/09/2025
Sad news out of Colorado…🙏🏻
Just In: The men's families have issued a $10,000 reward for the individual or search party that finds them.
According to loved ones, the men were out on an evening hunt when heavy fog and cold rain set in the San Juan Mountains.
Andrew Porter of Asheville, North Carolina, and Ian Stasko of Salt Lake City, Utah, were last heard from on Sept. 11, the day they hiked into the Rio Grande National Forest from a trailhead in a remote part of Conejos County, Colorado.
The Rio Grande National Forest is vast—spanning nearly 1.8 million forested acres that encircle southwest Colorado's San Luis Valley. Stasko and Porter were hunting in the San Juan Mountains, somewhere to the west of the Trujillo Meadows Reservoir, according to official reports. The area is known for rugged and difficult terrain. And its large elk herds attract scores of resident and non-resident hunters every year.
Porter's finance, Bridget Murphy, said the men were hunting in Game Unit 81 when their satellite devices stopped emitting signals. "While they are experienced hunters, bad cold storms and fog came in quickly and continuously until Sunday morning," she wrote. "A lot of their gear is still in their car at the trailhead, as we assume they probably thought they were going out for a quick evening hunt with clear weather. They are both 6’ fit men, with dirty blonde and light brown hair."
Field & Stream will continue to follow and update this story as more details emerge
