Runner vanished in the Bay area, no trace found. Update. He's been found. RIP: Philip Kreycik.

"... the location where Rubin was found was not near a marked trail." Cause of death not released by the family. A fall can be an accident or intentional. His seems to be an accident since the article notes he liked technical trail running, meaning take a run on a "path" where one doesn't exist, or was abandoned decades ago. I have done the latter myself.

DanM wrote:

CinqueMinute wrote:

Sometimes the body is in an obvious location.

We live in a small town. A woman went missing during COVID on the local bike trail. Her car was in the parking lot. Over 500 locals with dogs searched for days. The search ended, and she ended up being found about 200m from her car on the side of the creek. Literally under everyone's noses.

I had not heard about that guy in the VA resort. Wow. Possible heart attack?

Believed to be an accidental fall.

https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/nassau/police-fire/ny-financier-who-went-missing-while-jogging-found-dead/812532/

Steiner Math wrote:

They could have taken his phone while searching the park. If the bluetooth connected they would known they were close. The watch battery is likely dead by now.

I agree with you here. If the watch has a cellular line and it's an apple watch, then I believe that even if it died there may be a way to track it's last known location. I would expect that Apple would be able to access the Find My Device app logs and data.

However, if this runner was using an Android based smartwatch, and only connected via bluetooth then that connection is dead a soon as the watch runs out of battery life. One interesting thing to note here, is that I've noticed when I sync the data on my apple watch to Strava that it is not done through the Strave watch app I have installed. Instead, it is synced via the watch app --> iPhone app. That means that even if the runner is logging his miles via a GPS watch using an app like Strava, unless he has had a chance to sync to his phone, Strava would not have that day's run or route logged at all.

catching up wrote:

I really wish people would stop wildly speculating that "he disappeared on purpose" and that kind of stuff. It's disrespectful to his family and friends.

And this is a reason many "lost" people are never found. There is nothing to find. Friends and family will never accept someone decided to just disappear. There is nothing to indicare

RIP

catching up wrote:

Yes, by far the most likely situation is that he got distressed on the trail due to heat and took a wrong turn onto private property or dense bush in a canyon (plenty of it at Pleasanton Ridge) or a fall...and simply hasn't been found.

Why do you think that seems likely? If you fell into distress because of heat stroke or an injury from a fall would you head off of the trail through dense brush and rugged terrain that would require much more effort? Most likely you would try and head back down the trail or if you were unable to do that would sit or lie in the shade by the trail where you would be seen when someone came by.

Yes, he could have gone off trail and then encountered problems, but why would someone who was scheduled to meet family head off bushwacking through rugged terrain on private property with temps over 100? And he wouldn't have just taken a wrong turn and ended up on private property if he stayed on the trail. According to a knowledgeable previous poster that would have been a deliberate decision that would have required some effort.

There is just a lot that doesn't really add up,

Thanks, Holter. This additional info. explains quite a bit. It sounds very unlikely he would've wandered through the fence and over the bordering road. The only "lead" that sounds like it could offer more info. is this other runner who allegedly saw Philip on the trail... let's see how that plays out. The SAR team clearly thinks he's not there- I trust their judgment.

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I'm saying it's most likely as opposed to these wild "disappeared on purpose" or "abducted and murdered" speculations. It's occam's razor. The simplest explanation is most likely. It was an unusually hot day. It's rugged terrain. He's a runner. His shoe prints were found on the trail. There are lots of little side paths on that trail. If he were disoriented from heat exhaustion, he easily could have made some bad decisions that in normal circumstances would not be the ones you would expect. Maybe he found his way into private property, took shelter and had a tragic outcome, but hasn't been found. Or he could have taken a devastating fall. Of course, anything is possible, but this is an extremely popular and close-in park, not in the remote wilderness. It happened to be fairly empty because it was an intensely hot day, even for Pleasanton. Things like "abducted after happening upon a marijuana grow", though theoretically possible, just isn't nearly as likely as the simpler explanation.

rojo wrote:

wuhko l wrote:

Random thought. Could his gps watch activity during the 8 mile run be traced back to his whereabouts somehow?

Now we are thinking. This seems obvious. What type of watch did he have?

Suunto Ambit3 Sport according to his Strava.

I agree with catching up. I've never been to this park so I pulled up a trail map. I expected to see an 8-mile loop, but it's a spiderweb of trails. And several trails just stop at the border of the park. I agree with Occam's razor. If I were at the far end of the park and got injured, I might think, "I'll just cut across here to a road instead of limping 4 miles back." Some people have no sense of direction and can easily get turned around. If I got disoriented and wound up at one of these trails that stop at the border, I might try to take a shortcut to get to a road or house and wind up going deeper into private property. Plus, there's the likelihood of heat stroke. I've had mild heat exhaustion (not heat stroke) and it messes with your ability to think clearly. Some event caused him to leave the park... lost, disoriented, injured, or desperate... and he's outside the borders of the park now.