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This article was originally published on Feb. 11, 2019.

One year ago, Danny Filippidis was standing in Sacramento, Calif., wondering where exactly he was.

Unknown to him, the 50-year-old Toronto firefighter was the subject of a massive manhunt on the other side of the country. Searchers on and around Whiteface Mountain where searching for the Toronto firefighter who vanished Feb. 7 while he was on an  annual ski trip with co-workers.

The hunt included at least six government agencies, two ski patrols and several local volunteers. More than 135 people spent a combined 7,000 hours on the rugged mountain in varying winter weather conditions, officials said Monday. Helicopters and search dogs were also called in.

A truck driver had dropped Filippidis off in Sacramento and Filippidis couldn’t remember how he had gotten there or who he was.

Filippidis story captured international attention but a year later there is still no clear answer to what exactly happened to him or  the mystery person who drove him across the UFilippidis declined an interview request last week.

"He is happy with his progress and wants to continue to move forward," said Frank Ramagnano, president of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters' Association.

He has since returned to work.

Over the last year Filippidis spoke publicly only once, telling the Canadian Press in August he thinks it all began when he took a wrong turn on a solo trip down to his car. He wanted to grab his phone to take photos of his trip.

When he still hadn't returned to the ski lodge by 4 p.m., his friends began looking for him.

Investigators later determined that Filippidis likely fell near a children’s ski slope and ended up at a hub used for children’s programming that would have been closed at the time, according to the Canadian Press.

Three sets of tests and multiple visits to neurologists and neuropsychologists in Toronto, confirmed that he suffered some sort of head injury, Filippidis told the Canadian Press.

At some point he came across a truck driver. State Police have never been able to determine who the man was or where the truck was coming from.

 Six days later he turned up in California. He had somehow gotten a haircut and bought a new iPhone.

Sacramento County Sheriff spokesman Shaun Hampton said deputies found Filippidis wandering around the rental car area of the airport. He was clearly in need of medical attention and was still wearing his ski gear, Hampton said.

Hampton said that deputies believe Filippidis spent the night near Richards Boulevard along the Interstate 5 corridor. It's unclear how Filippidis moved from Richards Boulevard to the airport, which is about 13 miles away.

 Filippidis told the Canadian Press he and his family are just happy he’s back at work and not suffering from major consequences from his injury beyond gaps in his memory of his trip to California.

"There was a lot of despair and a lot of stress on them in the sense that it just didn’t look reasonable that I would be found OK,” he said in August. “But … we can almost talk about anything now.”