dave crockett (voiceover): i've left the car behind. as you can tell probably from this picture-- [breathes heavily] --i'm walking towards the only light i can see on top of a ridge. i started up a logging road, and that's when the ash hit. dave crockett (voiceover): feel the ash now in my eyes. it's getting very hard to breathe. [breathes heavily] alexa van eaton: for those who were downwind of the ash fall, you couldn't even see your hand in front of your face. dave crockett (voiceover): it's pitch black, just pitch black. this is-- this is hell on earth i'm walking through. he had made it out on foot. and so we thought, well, maybe reid made it out. but he's just stuck in the wilderness someplace. [engine roaring] don swanson: we were flying around trying to figure out what had happened. and in that process, we saw this car down there. so we thought, well, perhaps there's some survivors. they could see the car because it was in a clearing. but it was just all a sea of ash. jess phoenix: there was very little left of the vehicle that