Body of a missing man found near Washburn.

BAYFIELD – Foul play is not suspected in the death of a man who disappeared after dropping off a friend last week in northern Wisconsin.  Searchers found a body of 30-year-old Arik Askelin in a wooded area of rural Bayfield County on Sunday afternoon.  Askelin had last been seen at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 4 after driving a friend from Douglas County to Ashland.  The Bayfield County Sheriff’s Office says the vehicle Askelin had driven was found on Saturday, Jan. 8, stuck in snow on a remote forest trail about 10 miles west of Washburn. A news release from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says that evidence on the site indicates that the vehicle got stuck while trying to turn around.  A single set of footprints led away from the vehicle. Deputies searched the area Saturday but could not find Askelin. His body was found Sunday about a mile away from the vehicle.  The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Forest Service, and the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Service assisted the Douglas and Bayfield County sheriff’s offices and Ashland Police Department in the investigation.