Breaking: Hiker Missing Near Bluff Creek, Video of a Woman Captured on Trail Camera (Updated)

About 3 months ago, a woman named Ann Rodriquez was dropped off by her brother near Slate Creek in northern California. After 75 days, the woman to meet up with her brother at the drop off area on August 9th, but she never showed up. Her family recently notified the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office on August 14th and they've been searching for the missing her since.

According to locals, it's possible that the hiker went up Slate Creek Road and hiked up Bluff Creek -- a place made famous by Patterson-Gimlin in 1967 for filming a Bigfoot. Currently, this area is also where the Bluff Creek Film Site Project is taking place.

The hiker's brother reportedly took her up like three miles on Slate Creek Road to a trailhead. After that she was to go in about ten miles, heading in the direction right toward Bluff Creek and the Patterson-Gimlin film site. Jaime S., a member of the Bluff Creek Film Site Project, says it's quite possible that the woman may gotten lost and made it to Bluff Creek. "She likely went up "slate creek road" and hiked up Bluff Creek. About 12 miles up the creek is the PG site where the cams were," Jaime S. wrote in the facebook group, Coalition for Reason, Science, Sanity in Bigfoot Research. Though the following video from Jamie's trail cam (with incorrect time-stamp) was taken on July 3rd, Jaime has confirmed with the hiker's mother that it's not her daughter in the video.

[Update] Travis M. confirmed with us that the woman in the video above is his wife, not the missing hiker: "The woman in the video is my wife, Cathryn! That's her dog, Scout. We were up there for several days and I just showed her the video and I can say 100% for sure that it's her!"

Here's the official press release from the Humboldt Co. Sheriff’s Office:

On 08-14-2013, approximately 10:00 a.m. the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a citizen who reported his sister as an overdue hiker. The citizen told the investigating deputy he dropped his sister Anna Maria Rodriquez off at a trailhead three miles out Slate Creek, Orleans. He said his sister told him she intended to hike for about 75 days. He agreed to meet her back at the drop off area on 08-09-2013 and she failed to show up. He re-checked the trailhead daily until 08-14-2013.

He said she brought food, a tent, clothes, backpack and numerous other items with her. She told him she planned to camp in the area about ten miles north- northeast of the drop off. He told the deputy she has done this before. This was her second or third time which is why he was not concerned about her returning to the area, however this was the longest time she had been camping out in that area. She has a cell phone but it is currently turned off either due to a dead battery or voluntarily.

A California Highway Patrol plane flew the area on 08-14-2013 and a team of deputies are currently hiking the trails in the area assisted by a California Highway Patrol helicopter.

Anna Maria Rodriquez is described as follows: 5-5” tall, 180 lbs, brown hair, brown eyes last seen wearing blue jeans and an unknown colored shirt. She has no permanent place of residence.

Anyone with information for the Sheriff’s Office regarding this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Sheriffs Office at 707-445-7251 or the Sheriffs Office Crime Tip line at 707-268-2539.