Missing Belgian mountain biker's body found in Moab

Missing Belgian mountain biker's body found in Moab

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MOAB — The body of a Belgian man was found early Tuesday along a popular mountain biking trail, the Grand County Sheriff's Office said.

Authorities received a call from a member of Dirk De Muynck's family about 6 p.m. Monday to report that the resident of Waarschoot, Belgium, was overdue, according to a statement from the sheriff's office.

The family member said De Muynck, 46, had called about 9 a.m. to say he was mountain biking on the Amasa Back Trail and expected to be done with the ride in a relatively short time. The caller said De Muynck hadn't been heard from since.


It appears that he had started to backtrack on that trail and was carrying his mountain bike at the time that he went down.

–Grand County Sheriff's Office


Deputies and members of the sheriff's search and rescue team began canvassing the Amasa Back area. About 12:30 a.m., they found De Muynck's body on the Jackson Trail about 11 miles downriver from the Kane Creek Trail parking lot.

"It appears that he had started to backtrack on that trail and was carrying his mountain bike at the time that he went down," the sheriff's office statement said.

De Muynck was carrying a backpack that contained water and food, deputies said. Crews used a wheeled litter to move his body to Kane Creek, where they loaded the body into an inflatable kayak to cross the creek.

De Muynck's body was taken to the Utah State Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy.

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