Miranda AdamsUpdated: Nov 4, 2025 / 02:56 PM CST
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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – New details are emerging about what may have happened to the Selma hunter who was rescued after missing for weeks in the Fresno County mountains.
According to one of the men who found his truck, it was in a “very gnarly section” where only “rockcrawlers could make it up.”
Bryce Anderson says his off-roading club, the Hill Hoppers, stumbled across Ron Dailey’s truck on Sunday, just one day after Dailey himself was found by a group of hunters on the Swamp Lake Trail.Search underway for ‘experienced’ hunter in Oregon
“Our club was doing the annual trail closure run, where we go through and make sure no one is in there and we lock the gates behind us,” Anderson said. “We just happened to find his truck six miles in from the South Gate.”
Those six miles, he says, are typically reserved for off-road vehicles.
“[It’s a] very gnarly section of trail where only well-built rock crawlers can go,” he told YourCentralValley.com on Monday. “We were in disbelief that a stock truck could make it in that far.”
But he was not surprised that the truck could not make it back.Remains found near Mississippi River ID’d as man missing since 1990
“It was badly damaged, had a spare tire on, and the front end was lifted up on a high lift jack,” he said. “The back window was broken out when we found it. I assume from trail damage. It looks like he removed the passenger seat and was sleeping in the cab.”
The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office says they will be interviewing Dailey in the coming days to find out more about what happened.
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