Hiker found safe after 4 nights.Byline: From Register-Guard and news reports ROSEBURG - A hiker from Eugene who got lost in a Southern Oregon This article is about the southern region of the U.S. state of Oregon. For the University, see Southern Oregon University. Southern Oregon is a region of the U.S. wilderness area Broadly, a wilderness area is a region where the land is left in a state where human modifications are minimal; that is, as a wilderness. It might also be called a wild or natural area. (Very low or immaterial human impact or "footprint. didn't have much in the way of equipment for her unplanned four-night stay in what sheriff's deputies familiar with the area described as rugged and dangerous. But she was able to keep warm. `Come nighttime, I had a knife in my bag,' 25-year-old Alayna Hamilton said. `I'd hack down boughs from Douglas fir Douglas fir: see pine. Douglas fir Any of about six species of coniferous evergreen timber trees (see conifer) that make up the genus Pseudotsuga, in the pine family, native to western North America and eastern Asia. trees and just kind of lay them over myself.' Seven members of the Lane County Sheriff's search- and-rescue team who were participating in the search found Hamilton about 7:20 a.m. Saturday while conducting a `sound sweep' - calling out and waiting for a reply - in the remote Boulder Creek Wilderness The Boulder Creek Wilderness is located in the Umpqua National Forest in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon, U.S.. area of the Cascade Range Cascade Range, mountain chain, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, extending S from British Columbia to N Calif., where it becomes the Sierra Nevada; it parallels the Coast Ranges, 100–150 mi (161–241 km) inland from the Pacific Ocean. , about 45 miles east of Roseburg. Douglas County Douglas County is the name of twelve counties in the United States:
John Miller, coordinator of search-and-rescue for the Lane County Sheriff's Office, said the team gave Hamilton food and water, tended to her minor cuts and helped her walk out to safety. "Due to a lot of water being available and the weather being warmer than freezing at night, she had a little better opportunity to survive this," Miller said. It's not the first time Hamilton has needed the services of Lane County's search-and-rescue personnel, Miller said. "She has required our services in the past," he said, although he did not recall details about when or where Hamilton, an avid hiker who enjoys hiking alone, previously was lost. Occasionally, his team finds themselves searching for "repeat customers," Miller said. "We're just glad that the outcome (here) was positive," he said. "There are so many times when it's not." Hamilton, who works at a coffee shop, became lost Tuesday during what she intended to be a day hike. When she didn't show up for work Wednesday, her sister alerted authorities, touching off a three-day search that involved the search teams from Douglas and Lane counties as well as the U.S. Forest Service. The National Guard sent a helicopter. Wayne Stinson, director of the Douglas County search-and-rescue team, said Hamilton was in one of the most remote parts of the wilderness area. Surviving on rations of trail mix and readily available stream water, she was in good shape Saturday and walked with rescuers about six miles to get out of the wilderness. `It was just almost amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. that she was standing,' Stinson said. Search-and-rescue workers from Lane County had taken over for a deputy sheriff whose dog had picked up Hamilton's scent. The deputy had become dehydrated de·hy·drate v. de·hy·drat·ed, de·hy·drat·ing, de·hy·drates v.tr. 1. To remove water from; make anhydrous. 2. To preserve by removing water from (vegetables, for example). from the effort and been hospitalized for treatment. |
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