Brian went missing July 12, 2002. He was last seen in Whistler, British Columbia. He was 35 years old. The main web site for Brian is at www.faughnan.com/brian.
In a chance encounter a BC search and rescue volunteer shared S&R statistics from the last year British Columbia published them (2020):1703 incidents (missing, injured, etc)2284 subjects, of which:2117 were found alive85 were found deceased82 were not found (at time search task is closed)There are others like us. Shared sorrow.
It's been 22 years since anyone last saw my younger brother Brian Faughnan. No remains have been found near Whistler BC.Was he murdered hitchhiking to a trailhead by one of BC's seemingly endless serial killers? Did he commit suicide? Did he slip and fall? Did he get lost in the vast wilderness? Did he choose to disappear? We don't know and we probably will never know.
The Brian Faughnan page still renders. He was last seen July 11, 2002 in Whistler British Columbia, so it's been 19 years and about 7 weeks since he disappeared. No clues were ever found. I think of him often. Born June 6, 1967 so he was 35 then. Today he'd be 54.
A friend of Brian's, Michael Leong, created a memorial page for him long ago. I'll have to add it to Brian's memorial page. (The software I used to create that page is long gone, so I have to convert it to do some editing.) Brian would have been 52yo today.
The article is primarily about one search where a body was eventually found, but there’s a reasonable try at estimating how many people disappear in the wilderness. The US number is “1,600”, sounds like that’s a total for all people still missing over several decades. Adjusting for population size the Canadian number would be 100-200.
A friend sent this article on the 10th anniversary of the death of Jon Francis in the wilderness… Decade after son's death, Stillwater man tends legacy … Jon Francis went missing July 15, 2006 while hiking in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. A wilderness searcher found his remains a little more than a year later, on July 24, 2007; he had fallen to his death from the north face of a mountain
I see the 13th anniversary went by without a post. But so have a few years before that. It’s been a bit more than 14 years since Brian Faughnan was lost on July 12, 2002, last seen in Whistler BC. We haven’t forgotten Brian. There’s been no news. A skeleton was found far from Whistler, but in the drainage area of where he was last seen. The RCMP did some DNA testing, but we have no word. They
Twelve years ago I was recovering after the search for Brian. He’d have been 47 now, maybe married. There has been no news, no body found. I think of him often. Today it was because his nephew, my oldest son, has been using Brian’s old water pack while mountain biking. Sometime I’ll have to let him know where it came from (I don’t want him to worry about losing it). His parents are passing these
It's been almost 12 years since Brian was lost at Whistler - July 12, 2002. His parents and siblings are still alive, and so, I believe are all the friends who searched that July. Some have married and had children. Even at that time, we hears stories of a woman who died in that area in October 1994. A comment on a 2011 post brought a reference to an article in a BC news magazine. I don't know
Brian was born June 6th, 1967. Easy to remember as it was Canada's centennial celebration; I think my parents got a certificate of some kind. He was 35 when he went missing in Whistler BC; looks like the old web site still works though some of it is obsolete now. There's been no news since his disappearance. Happy birthday brother.
Came across this while looking for something else... It was published in the Whistler question, perhaps in 2004. I found it here: Man's disappearance still a mysteryBy Nicole DavisReporternews@whistlerquestion.comBrian Faughnan went for a hike in Whistler on July 12, 2002. Or, at least that is what is thought to have happened. No one quite knows what happened to Faughnan, because he disappeared
Been a while since I looked at the online album for Brian. That does ache. There has never been any sign of his body.
I posted these images to SmugMug in June 2004. I've closed the SmugMug account, so I'm reposting them here. I'll also gather up some other albums at the same time. Cross-posted to Brian's blog. Brian Faughnan's Story Here's another album on Picasa that overlaps with the above: Brian Douglas Anthony Faughnan
I was thinking this was the tenth year since Brian disappeared, but we're only entering year nine. Tim was five then. I remember him asking, when I phoned our home from the Vancouver airport, if I'd found Brian. I don't think he'd remember Brian now, Tim is almost 14. I still have a technical jacket Brian owned. He didn't take it with him on his hike, we think he took another one he'd bought
I Am Missing is a database of persons missing in Canada. They kindly added Brian on my request.
When I decommissioned my old PC six months ago I lost the ability to edit old web pages. Tonight I got the old environment working in virtual machine. FrontPage 98 lives!I updated Brian's web site a bit. I removed references to an old email address of mine, and added a link to the family photo album.
I did an album of Brian some time ago, but I recently received additional photos. So I've uploaded my collection to Picasa. I'll refresh it periodically. Brian Douglas Anthony Faughnan There has been no news of course. He remains missing and presumed dead. (PS. I originally mixed up the middle names for Steven and Brian. My mother called me on that one very promptly. Sorry Mom.)
Eight years ago Google gave us satellite views of Rainbow Mountain. The resolution was limited however.I revisit the summit periodically, things are much sharper now. We don't know if Brian was ever anywhere near the summit, but if that's where he was lost he's somewhere in this picture (close up below):View Rainbow Mountain in a larger map
I received a routine call from Cpl Mulhall of RCMP - Whistler. They turn over personnel every 2-3 years, so there are no veterans from the original investigation. He had read through Brian's files and called to ask if I had heard anything.I asked him if he was aware of any patterns of disappearances resembling Brian's, but he didn't know of any. It's not unusual for a hiker to die in the
There's been no news to report here, but of course his friends and family think of Brian very often.Recently I received a note from an outdoorsman who heard of his disappearance and tracked the story. He didn't know Brian, but he wrote to say that to this day he thinks about what happened.I appreciated that note.It reminded me that people will, on occasion, read this blog. So if you've come to
I wonder sometimes how often people disappear around Whistler BC. Over the past 7 years I've not seen evidence that disappearances are all that common. That's reassuring.In one look I came across this reference in a web site maintained by Matt Gunn of Vancouver BC. It turns out that Matt spoke with Brian a few days before he disappeared ...Scrambling Accidents... Brian Faughnan went missing in
I'd forgotten I'd done this years ago: Brian Douglas Faughnan. I found it when testing image search using my last name.
A phishing attack on families of missing persons alerts me that the brianfaughnan.com domain had lapsed.Fixed now.It was six years ago that I returned to St. Paul from the search in Whistler. All my love to Brian's friends, and my thanks to those who helped us.
This is how very hard search can be.A large group of volunteers spent a week searching for a lost autistic man. He couldn't help his searchers by calling out.After a week of search the team was about to give up.'I now believe in miracles,' mother says after autistic son is found... Two St. Paul firefighters had found Keith Kennedy, severely dehydrated and covered with sores and ticks, lying near
The McGill Outdoors (Outing) Club House is up for sale!If the House could speak, the stories ... well ...From a forum post:As many of you know, after 54 years of owning the MOC house in Shawbridge and renting it to us, McGill has decided to sell the house.They have proposed that the Student Society of McGill University buy it which originally seemed feasible from SSMU's point of view. However,