and they got this call that their mother had been found and they basically had given up hope. so they drove back home and immediately started making plans to go to idaho. but no one in the family s very hopeful about the dad. yeah, well, certainly a wonderful mother s day in that family. can you tell me about the circumstances of the father s departure? i mean was it all just snow? was it woods? i mean what s the terrain like there? well, it s a very rocky high desert canyon land. it s about 5,700 feet in elevation. they ve had it was in the humboldt national forest in northeastern nevada right near the border with idaho. it s kind of near idaho or yemen, nevada. and they ve had the snowiest winter that they ve hab sid 1979. and the u.s. forest service says