JerryThomas

Georger Im going to be in vancouver most of next week and I will have time to look for some of your relatives friends.I'll also pick up that map and get you a copy of it if you still want a copy or I can loan it to you.

To move through this terain with any speed at all is very hard to do in alot of cases 3 miles a day is doing good unless your on a road or trail Ive hiked in 10 or more miles many times on 2 wk trips but you must remember I was searching for the unusual.

Snowmman some searchers actuallly did get lost but others found them.To my knowledge no searchers died.However even today deer hunters hikers are constantly geting lost Ive helped many lost hikers and hunters find they way out of the woods.

The animal life what a question.Deer, Elk.Cougar.Rats Mice Poccupines Eagles Hawks Bear. Wait a minute read your Encyclopedia on the state of washington. I think it might even tell you about Big foot This animal is protected in skamainia county. Realy

Like this Use the Quote thing instead of Reply. The idea is to allow multiple overlapping exchanges, by reposting the message you're responding to. The Quote thing automatically encloses the message in the reply and /reply thingees. (edit) then you can type your response at the bottom. If you click on Get Markup Help while you're editing a post, you can see all sorts of wonderful things you can bracket text with. like b and /b (I'm not showing the required brackets) to get bold text like this or if you want to say sluggo is a jerk You'll notice some posters have favorite styles. Jo's posts used to be insane with markup stuff. but she's toned down a bit. Break your posts into paragraphs for easier reading. To avoid chopping the sentences up, only hit Enter on your keyboard when you want a new paragraph. Hit Enter twice if you want a blank line between paragraphs. (edit) You can go back and use Edit on a post to edit posts that you made. Since this can be confusing to a future reader, or someone who already read the post, a convention we sort of have here is to highlight meaningful post edits. I use (edit) Others do other things. Rather than using the standard markups to delineate replys, Georger likes typing "reply>" or something like that at the start of his posts. It's good to snip out long posts, rather than repost the entire thing you're responding to. Georger always reposts the entire message he responds to, even if he's just adding two words. No one complains, but it would be better to snip the original post. Just include enough to provide context for your response. Georger usually snips what he thinks should be snipped otherwise posts full context on ourpose. Me Georger. You Snow. Me know what Georger do - at least most of the time. There was this time however when Sally and I were on a hill .... thats another story. Bear walked up at 3:00am. All we had on was our shorts and the bear was wearing a hat ........... if not for the rattlesnakes I know we would have been eaten... Jesus I am becoming like Jo!

Low pull 1: I don't believe the chute functioned I don't even think cooper Knew how to make it function.If he was able to get the chute to open his landing site would have either been a tree enima or jagged rocks he would have been dazed and not thinking clearly.He would have had no sense of direction.You are right about the chute though it would have kept him warm wet or not If he wasn't hung up in a tree or unconcious. The guy jump with a chute he knew nothing about. There's a lot of If's where this jump is concerned.

There are all kinds of scavengers in the area.however decompasition is very slow its like a referidgerator 8 months out of the year in that area and rarely gets above the 70's deep in the woods in the summer and at nite it normaly stays in the 40's in the summer months.

It is my opinion the canopy never opened.The conditions in which he jumped was very hostile.I believe he had no jump experience and that he became disoriented as soon as he exited the aircraft. The envirorment in which he would have landed is exstremely harsh terain. Most of the time travel in this area is only possible down the center of a stream.Does anyone remember the guy I think his name was kim that got stranded on a logging road in oregon with his family and tried to walk out by way of a creek and died.Well the area they found his body in was mild compared to the terain cooper would have had to negotiate.Even if he had landed he didn't have any shoes.It highly unlikely that he would have landed safely in that thick of a forrest.Hyperthermia would have been his main enemy and on the ground at night in that dense of a forest you can't even see your hand in front of your face" Believe me I know".If he had the ability to make a fire he probably would have used the parachute, dry tendor would have been hard to find .In a survival situation human nature takes over and you just want to live so if he survived the jump he probly would have tried to start a fire by using part of the parachute and some one would have spoted this fire.He probably would have made no atempt to conceal the fire.These are just a few of the reasons I have for believing the man parished that nite. If any of you could spend 5 minutes out in this area you will with out a doubt realize this guys chances for survival was none.

It was not a military jump. and I'm not sure of the year But alot of these questions about Ralph is personal in nature and as his friend I think most of these questions should be answered by him. You see his friendship means a lot to me as well as his privacy so in all fairness questions pertaining to his personell life I will not answer. I may have answered to many already.

I promise I will be nice and not ruffle any more feathers Thanks for the advice.

Snowmman Ralph is aware of this forum I don't know if he will ever post on it.Not sure if he would answer any questions either.However he does have a airplane and still flys. He has jumped and does follow the progress on this case. So what is your real name.

Gosset good question, easy answer.The fact that we even no his name eliminate's him as a suspect The man that pulled this off never survived and his name is still uknown.The FBI has checked backgrounds on thousands of suspects.If they have a name they investigate it and they leave no stone unturned.

Snowmman you sure have a lot of question so it is only fair that you answer mine. What is your real name? What do you do for a living.You complain about people keeping secrets and yet your the bigest offender of all. I would feel easier about answer some of your other questions if you answer mine.

In reference to the owners house, the building closest to the gate and RR tracks with the barn next to it was where they lived.Most of the locals called the owner by a nick name (Frenchman) the gate had a small can on it that people would put money in, to gain access to the bar.I have a friend by the name of Brian Allen that new the owner very well and camped on the bar alot. He used to help the owner clean up the trash that people use to leave there.

SnowMMan hope I spelled your name right this time.I have an Idea. If you could take the information you have and use it to pinpoint a location that you believe cooper landed and display it I will go to that location and search it for you I,ll even take pictures of that location and get it posted on the forum.

Geoger this forum is going to take me awhile to get use too I seem to answer questions out of context. given time I learn and do beter.

Snowman I retired from the army in 1988 and I have been having fun every sense. My comment was cabin presure fluctuation. you asked where did I get my info from I said trust me this was refering to the jump.

The Jump

Lets just say it's something I've been told in the past. trust me.

Cabin presure fluctuation

Snowman you Know who I am and my name so who are you whats your name? What do you do for a living? Do you live in California.

What Ckret says is true Whaty Ckret has told you guys is the truth the man would not lie about things involving this case he is very honest and a excelent FBI agent.

It was the 80's and You must understand Ralph was assigned the case from day 1 as for information Ralph has told me Well lets just say that is between Ralph and I.

Tom I would like to talk to you

Snowman I have seen the 20 dollar bills up close and personel. Ralph has one that his wife bought for him from the insurance company. Heritage Auction out of Dallas Tx is the company that recently sold some of the 20 dollar bills for Brian. The island was searched by many people me included I searched it in the 80's others mainly fisherman and campers also searched the Island.