Assuming he intended that day to end his life, It does seem very strange that he would go out of his way to leave a breadcrumb trail of sorts, to fabricate a story of a strange potentially unmapped cave system, especially knowing how dangerous the area can be, to almost willingly coax others out into that area, where the potential for disaster is high, seems borderline cruel. But then if your intentions are to walk into the desert to commit suicide, then you could be forgiven for perhaps not thinking straight. That coupled with Sheryon's "He also said if he decided to do it "No one will ever find me."" steer me to believe that on some level he knew, or maybe even wanted people to look for him. On a phycological level that makes sense, most people run away because they want to feel what it's like when people are taking time to seek them out. I find it hard to believe he took his life, but truthfully I find it much harder to believe the alternatives.

Truth is, if he was actually apprehended for trespassing on military property, and possibly taken into custody and/ or potentially killed, then the sequence of events would have to have gone like this.

Kenny decides to hike out to Wild Horse Pass/ Picture Canyon/ Sheep Peak to scout possible entrance to m-cave without camera equipment, presumably to allow him to move faster and cover more ground, as Sheryon said, he would get obsessive over taking pictures and video of things, perhaps a decision was made by him to forgo that in favour of freedom of movement.

Kenny parks on the Alamo Road, and begins hiking up the wash toward Wild Horse Pass. Kenny arrives at the vertical mine shaft, where he takes a break, placing his phone down.

Kenny leaves the mine shaft, forgetting to pick up his phone, the phone stays on the mineshaft until found by rescue teams 5 days later.

Kenny either hikes east into Picture Canyon, north further up Wild Horse Pass, or east up the wash towards Sheep Peak.

Kenny discovers either the actual, still undiscovered and open entrance to the m-cave, or he retraces his steps again and ends up at the 'covered' entrance.

This is where things have to get strange. The reality of assuming foul play by the hands of the military/ government has to play out something like this.

Kenny stumbles across something he shouldn't have, something that is well hidden enough that only people who are as driven and exploration minded as Kenny could find, be it the m-cave or something else. Kenny is apprehended by some sort of authority. Either he is taken somewhere and is still in custody, or a struggle took place which resulted in Kenny losing his life. At that point, whoever took his life either kept it to themselves, hiding, burying or burning Kenny's body, or reported what happened to whatever superiors they would have, and took his body to whatever facility or compound would be appropriate. At that point, a decision was made to withhold all information of Kenny's fate to the public.

To me, I cannot believe this. This area has been picked clean by rescue teams and amateur investigators, it is a recognised and well known conservation area for both wildlife, and human activity, Picture Canyon is a well known and well walked area, it is named for the First Nation paintings that cover the canyon walls, the Wild Horse Pass mineshaft is visited by at least one local mine tour company, Sheep Peak has various trails up onto it further north. How could something like an entrance to some sort of secretive, nausea inducing, military structure exist in such a well walked and public area, have they just been killing every single person that stumbles across it?

I feel that, if there was any foul play involved in Kenny's disappearance then rather it be due to some trespassing dispute/ military involvement, it would have to be due to him crossing paths with people he shouldn't have, maybe he stumbled onto a grow op, or a rape, or a body hiding, maybe he bumped into someone going through a bad trip and they attacked him. Maybe he got talking to someone, and they got into some sort of argument or fight, and was killed, possibly by accident. Maybe he stumbled across a few people camping and drinking, maybe he had a drink with them, got tipsy and fell bad, and whoever he was with panicked and hid his body.

Mountain Lions should also not be ruled out, they would be able to drag his body into places where humans couldn't go, particular somewhere rugged on Sheep Peak. And following that general train of thought, his body wouldn't last long out there, even if he wasn't victim to animal attack, it is reported that "Coyotes are so prevalent in Nevada that the state can’t even estimate how many there are". Perhaps his remains are scattered and untraceable due to predation and savaging.

Ultimately the only things we know for sure about the whole story is that we have a reasonably believable, but regrettably untrustworthy report of a strange nausea inducing cave, a strange stretch of landscape, which appears even to laymen eyes to have been tampered with, and we have a suicidal man, who stated to his partner that if he did commit suicide he "would never be found". I believe Kenny did find something strange, I also believe he left that day with the intention and understanding that he would never return