Published 10:34 am Thursday, October 29, 2026

A Roseburg man recently found the remains of a hiker on South Sister who went missing 25 years ago.

Sam Stevens, a traveling physical therapist and experienced mountain athlete who had recently moved to Oregon, had never been to Sisters Wilderness before Oct. 17. Stevens said he planned to hike a 27-mile loop from Devil’s Lake to Middle Sister and then to South Sister.

During the hike, Stevens changed his route and ended up on a less-common path around the mountain. There, he stumbled upon the remains of missing hiker from 2001, Corwin Osborne.

Stevens was hiking around the northeast side of South Sister when he saw an ice axe, two shoes, two crampons, a backpack, and pair of pants with bones coming out of them.

“It didn’t take too long to figure out that this seems like it was actually a body,” Stevens said.

Osborne, of Bellevue, Wash., started hiking from the Devil’s Lake Trailhead on June 17, 2001. He was 45 years old at the time.…