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Rocky Sea Pass
Tungsten Pass
Porcupine Pass
Highline Trailhead
The Highline Trailhead marks the western end of the Uinta Highline Trail. It was meant to be the final stop for Eric Robinson, who set out alone from the eastern end at Chepeta Lake on July 28, 2011. Eric never reached this point, and his disappearance remains a tragic chapter in the trail’s history.
Chepeta Lake Trailhead
On July 28th, 2011, 64-year-old, Eric Robinson, set out alone from the Chepeta Lake Trailhead, northwest of Vernal. His destination: the western end of the Uinta Highline Trail, a demanding 60-mile route that runs east to west along the southern crest of the Uinta Mountains. The trail ends near Kamas, at the Highline Trailhead off Mirror Lake Highway.
North Pole Pass
Dead Horse Pass
Anderson Pass
Red Knob Pass

Episodes

Overdue – The Disappearance of Eric Robinson

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Australian trekker Eric Robinson wasn't afraid to walk in wild places alone. What motivated this man to seek solitude in nature, even at the risk of his own safety?

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Aspiring – Close call on Cascade Saddle

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Eric Robinson's aspirations in the outdoors grow, even in the face of close calls with death in the mountains of New Zealand and Nepal.

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The Tyranny of Distance – Eric Robinson on the Uinta Highline Trail

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Eric Robinson begins his trek on the Uinta Highline Trail. When he doesn't emerge at the far end, his friend launches a desperate search.

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No Trace – Wilderness confounds the search for Eric Robinson

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Marilyn Koolstra arrives in Utah to join the hunt for her missing hiker husband, Eric Robinson. The High Uintas Wilderness has other plans.

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Business Casual of the Backcountry – A scoutmaster’s sighting of Eric Robinson

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A scoutmaster's story about encountering Eric Robinson far from the Uinta Highline Trail raises troubling questions. Why was Eric off route? Did he get lost?

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Dead Reckoning – The last hope of finding Eric Robinson

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The last glimmers of hope fade as the search for Eric Robinson enters its final stage. Meanwhile, a hiker who was on the trail when Eric disappeared devotes himself to the search.

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Ruby – An unexpected discovery at Allsop Lake

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Eric Robinson's loved ones come to terms with never knowing what happened to him in the High Uintas Wilderness. But five years later, one of Eric's boots surfaces in an unlikely location.

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A Picture’s Worth – Eric Robinson’s photos

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The discovery of skeletal remains on the slopes east of Allsop Lake in the High Uintas Wilderness in 2016 answered a question that’d lingered for five years: where was Eric Robinson? However, the location did not at first make sense in the context of Eric’s 2011 disappearance. He’d traveled from his home in Australia to solo hike the Uinta Highline Trail, but the place where his bones and backpack came to rest was not along that trail. Eric’s wife, Marilyn […]

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