The remains of a Manhattan Beach man who went missing while hiking in Sequoia nine months ago were recovered near Bishop Pass last week, the National Park Service announced Thursday.

A group of hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail notified authorities July 6 of human remains about 300 feet off the Bishop Pass trail in a talus slope, according to the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office.

The body was airlifted the next day and later identified by the Inyo County coroner as that of Robert “Bob” Woodie, 74, who disappeared during a four-day backpacking and fishing trip in October 2016.

Woodie, an experienced hiker who knew the area and was traversing it alone, was reported missing Oct. 18, two days after he was supposed to return.

He had parked his vehicle at the South Lake trailhead in Inyo National Forest, hiked over Bishop Pass into Kings Canyon National Park and was last heard from the evening of Oct. 15 via a satellite GPS device in the Barrett Lakes area. A storm with high winds and below-freezing temperatures came through overnight and the next day.

A massive multiagency search of 26 square miles that was hampered by weather conditions was called off Oct. 28.

— Megan Barnes