Here is what the Brainerd paper said about him...
By JENNIFER STOCKINGER
Staff Writer
The 24-year-old Nisswa man who has been missing for a week was found alive Friday in northeastern Minnesota, Lake County Sheriff Carey Johnson said Saturday.
Ryan Christoffer Hamre was found a day after his pickup truck was found in Lake County at an acquaintance's cabin about an hour north of Two Harbors.
Johnson said Hamre's father, David Hamre, said that his son was found about 6:30 p.m. Friday by the cabin owner who spotted him walking out of the brush onto the Tomahawk Trail, a road near Isabella, halfway between Ely and Lake Superior.
Johnson said Hamre was staying at the cabin for a few nights and on Thursday he apparently had gone for a walk and became lost. Hamre found shelter by a tree where he slept for the night and he built a fire to keep warm. On Friday, Hamre was able to find his way back to the road where he was found.
Hamre was treated at an Ely hospital for frostbite and was determined to be in fine health.
Johnson said the family said that Hamre had planned to go to the cabin for a few days and that it was a miscommunication between the family on where he was going.
Nisswa Police Chief Craig Taylor said Saturday that he is happy and relieved that Hamre was found alive and was grateful to all the law enforcement agencies who helped in the search.
The Nisswa Police Department received a missing person report Tuesday after Hamre failed to show up for work. Hamre is an associate editor at Petersen's Bowhunting magazine, which is a division of InterMedia, the parent company of In-Fisherman magazine in Baxter. A company spokeswoman said earlier that Hamre gave no indication to InterMedia that he wouldn't be in to work on Tuesday.
It was reported that Hamre last talked to friends Feb. 16, saying he planned to visit his parents in Winona over the weekend. Surveillance cameras recorded Hamre buying gasoline, oil and getting cash from an ATM at 5:53 a.m. Saturday at a Rice gas station. His cell phone was found in a ditch along Highway 10 near Royalton. Family members said it was uncharacteristic of Hamre to go somewhere without calling friends or family.
Hamre's pickup truck and personal belongings were then found Thursday in Lake County at an acquaintance's cabin. The truck had a half of tank of gas and was left unlocked with the keys in the ignition.
Johnson said a county deputy passed a man fitting Hamre's description walking in the area Thursday and when he went to do a welfare check on the man he couldn't be located.
Johnson said neighbors thought they also saw Hamre Thursday walking north along Highway 1. Johnson said one neighbor was working on his roof and he climbed down to see if the man needed help. By the time the neighbor reached the ground the man believed to be Hamre was gone.
Ground and air searches and a bloodhound were conducted to try to locate Hamre, but weren't successful.
Assisting the Lake County Sheriff's Department in the search were the State Patrol, the Ely and Babbitt police departments, the St. Louis County Sheriff Department and Search and Rescue Team and the BCA.
Hamre's parents, David and Pamela Hamre of Winona, stayed in Ely Friday to try to locate their son. David Hamre said Friday that his son had stayed at the cabin before to go hunting with a friend of his from Brainerd. Hamre said the cabin is owned by his son's friend's parents.
Pamela Hamre said Friday that many of their friends and family helped in the search for her son.
JENNIFER STOCKINGER can be reached at jennifer.stockinger@brainerddispatch.com or 855-5851.
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