Using data from the Garmin, searchers on the ground then located Levinson's body at 9,400 feet in Lone Pine Creek. It appears he died on the first day of his hike, just a few miles into the journey.

An island community in Washington is mourning the loss of a beloved former high school teacher who died one day into a trek on the John Muir Trail in California. Harris Levinson, 61, died near ...