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Calls for help
By Kevin Walker
Just as my dad Walt Walker and I
were completing an educational program for a
group of Boy Scouts from England at Camp Emerson,
the camp ranger asked for Walt, and said that
team member and Idyllwild resident Mary Bowman
was on the phone with a possible rescue. After
talking with Mary we decided to drive on up to
Humber Park and just see what was going on. When
Walt and I arrived we were met by a deputy and a
local resident. The gentleman told us that he and
his neighbor had heard calls for help up on
Suicide Rock. Another catch was, earlier in the
evening, a woman separated from her group as they
were returning from the rock. The group went back
up to look for her, and while they were in
looking, the young woman made her way back to
Idyllwild. Anyway, Walt and I decided to hike in
and find out if the calls for help were coming
from the group of climbers who went back in.
We had no sooner crossed Strawberry
Creek when we came across the group returning to
Humber. We informed them that the woman from
their party had hiked down into Idyllwild. And
after asking a few questions, we found that the
group had been calling out Hello ... Hello. And
to the residents below it sounded like Help ...
Help.
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