Rhonda Casto
March 16, 2009 23-year-old Rhonda Castro and her boyfriend Steve Nichols set out the day of March 16 to hike a Eagle Creek Trail. The trail was very popular for a steep drop-off that looked over the Columbia River Gorge. No one knew that this day would be turned into a nightmare. Before they went on a hike, Castro dropped her 9-month-old daughter Ava with her mother. By early evening, a rescue team responded to a 911 call from Nichols. When they arrived at the scene, they found Castro's body lifeless at the bottom of a ravine. Nichols recalled the before the incident, he saw Castro running down a narrow trail with a towel behind her like "superman." He then remembered her sliding down the ravine and him trying to help her by swimming across a freezing creek to get her. By the time he got there, she was lifeless. By the time he reached her, he had collapsed over her body from exhaustion and hypothermia. Before making it back to the call to call 911, Nichols fe...