(Summit County Daily) 
 
 Summit County authorities said Monday a skull found by hikers in August is that of a 27-year-old Breckenridge man who went missing in September 2014. Anyone who has seen McAtee — who is 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighs 170 pounds and has green eyes — or who has information concerning his whereabouts is asked to call the Summit County Sheriff’s Office at (970) 668-8600. But the state trooper who met Jack McAtee wrote in his report on the incident that he believed the crash might have been intentional, according to the Summit Daily News. ALASKA - Fishing season is in high gear right now in Alaska. We want to express our love to all of you as we wait to see how God will end the story. “Wherever you are.” 
 
 He left no physical evidence behind, but the family had a few leads. ​At times, it's a bit like being in the wilderness ourselves, at times the lack of hope and feelings that it may be all over, that Jack may be dead and never found. It had happened before, and on three of those occasions he’d gone missing for a short while. The biggest one, the one that’s dogged him for the past year, already has an answer: “A person, an irreplaceable person, is gone.” 
 
 Correction: A previous version of this post incorrectly identified Jack McAtee’s father. “I love you Jack,” McAtee said. Jack McAtee's skull was the only of his remains located on Peak 1, according to officials. During the winter months, when it was impossible to stay in Colorado and scour the mountains, Steve McAtee devoted himself to reading about lives lived off the grid. McAtee’s father, Steve McAtee, is currently leading search efforts from Breckenridge.
– Jack McAtee crashed his car into a reservoir in the mountains of Colorado on Sept. 18, 2014. He survived with only a scratch and told a police officer he'd fallen asleep at the wheel. The officer suspected the crash might've been intentional and the 27-year-old spent a night at a mental health facility in Frisco. A day later, the Breckenridge man was released and disappeared, reports the Washington Post. His family told the Summit Daily News McAtee had 10 days earlier stopped taking his medication for bipolar disorder, just as he had done a few times before when he dropped out of sight, but he always resurfaced. Over the next year, they scoured the country in search of him, thinking perhaps he'd gone off the grid like Chris McCandless, the subject of his favorite book, Into the Wild. They reached out to contacts in Alaska, where McAtee had flown planes, and homeless shelters, where they thought he might volunteer, but found no sign of him. In July, McAtee's father wrote online that "there is a 50% chance that Jack wandered off into the wilderness and attempted to survive." But a month later, two hikers found a skull near the top of the Peak One, immediately south of Frisco; DNA confirmation that the skull was McAtee's came earlier this month. "Our search has come to fruition," McAtee's family wrote. "Our closure is at hand, albeit we acknowledge it will be a lifelong process." It's still not clear how or when McAtee died. His skull was all that was found of his remains, reports the Denver Post. What is certain: "A person, an irreplaceable person, is gone," his family says. But "the story's not over," McAtee's father adds. The family is hoping to raise $50,000 to build wells in Kenya in McAtee's memory. Nearly $15,000 has been raised so far. (The Into the Wild author has revised his McCandless death theory.)