Two Colorado Mountain College Students Found Dead in Chaffee County
Two missing hikers, Kaden Matsuda and Jackson Donlon, who were students at Colorado Mountain College, have been found dead in a basin of West Apostle Mountain in Chaffee County.
Colorado Springs Pueblo, CO, October 28, 2026 —
Two missing hikers, Kaden Matsuda and Jackson Donlon, who were students at Colorado Mountain College, have been found dead in a basin of West Apostle Mountain in Chaffee County, according to the information provided.
The available account identifies the men and their connection to the college, and says they were hikers who had been reported missing. It does not provide the date they were found, how long they had been missing, or the circumstances surrounding their disappearance and deaths.
No information was provided about who located the hikers, whether a search operation took place, or which agencies may have been involved. The account also does not state a cause or manner of death, and no findings from an investigation or examination were included. Those details remain unreported in the information available for this article; no cause can be inferred from the location where the hikers were found.
The information provided does not include statements from family members, Colorado Mountain College, authorities or other people connected to the search. It also does not specify the hikers’ ages, hometowns or academic programs. Further details about the events leading up to the discovery were not provided.
What is established in the account is limited to the hikers’ names, their status as Colorado Mountain College students, and the location where they were found: a basin of West Apostle Mountain in Chaffee County. The circumstances of the case and any subsequent steps by authorities are not described.
Story summarized from the original created by KOAA on gazette.com, see more information here.
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