Coconino County Sheriff’s Office finds lost hiker1 min read

Have you seen this man Salvatore Pascarelli? The Coconino County Sheriff's Office reported he was last seen in Flagstaff and was hiking to Yuma.
Photo courtesy of the Coconino County Sheriff's Office

Investigators of the Flagstaff Police Department and Coconino County Sheriff’s Office located Salvatore Pascarelli, declared a missing person, on Saturday, July 3, in Las Vegas.

Pascarelli reportedly took a Greyhound bus from Flagstaff to Las Vegas on July 3 due to difficulties with his feet affecting his ability to continue walking for his cause.

Salvatore PascarelliPascarelli went to Las Vegas instead of Yuma to stay with a family member and recover.

Salvatore PascarelliPascarelli’s GPS and cell phone had gotten wet in Flagstaff and became inoperable. Pascarelli contacted his girlfriend on Saturday to let her know of his change of route and was told at that time of his being reported as a missing person.

Pascarelli went to the Las Vegas Metro Police Department and advised them that he was reported as a missing person.

Pascarelli had been last in Flagstaff on Sunday, June 27, at 9:30 p.m. per his GPS locator. Pascarelli told his girlfriend on June 27 that he was leaving Flagstaff on June 28, and was heading to Yuma, according to the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office.

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Pascarelli is on a cross-country hiking journey from Florida to San Diego to raise awareness for cancer.

Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."

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