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Search for 16 year old who took a shortcut
by
Glenn Henderson
Sixteen
year old Shawn Williams was reported missing off
the South Ridge Trail to the Forest Service in
the late afternoon. Forest Service personnel made
a hasty search and soon called for our help.
Kevin Walker and I drove up together and arrived
at the trail head at 5:45pm. Walt Walker was the
Operations Leader and sent Kevin, myself and Mike
Cassidy of the Forest Service up the South Ridge
Trail. Other team members Henry Negrete,
Mike Wimbrow, Dona Halcrow, Joe Erickson, Ray
Hussey, Jay Pion, Pat Tillman, Alan Ewert and
Victor Caro were divided up into teams of two or
three and sent below the trail to try and cut him
off.
After
forty minutes of hiking we found signs where
someone had left the trail and headed down the
hillside and away from the trail. Just as we were
starting to follow the tracks, Frank Smith of the
Forest Service showed up at base with Shawn.
Frank had been searching since the first report
and by doing lots of shouting and moving cross
country finally met up with Shawn. It took them
over an hour to get back to the road but they did
it without any problems. Shawn was fine. Just
hungry and thirsty. At 8:00pm all personnel were
back to base and released to go home. Great job
by the Forest Service. Thanks Guys.
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