SEARCH TEAMS STILL CAN'T FIND HUNTER.Byline: CHARLES F. BOSTWICK Staff Writer ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los -- Search teams aided by helicopters and dogs combed rugged canyons and mountain slopes Monday in the second day of searching for a Pacoima hunter who failed to rendezvous with his companions. Eladio Gamez, 25, had been out with friends and relatives on the last weekend of deer hunting season in the San Gabriel Mountains San Gabriel Mountains, S Calif., E and NE of Los Angeles, running c.50 mi (80 km) westward from Cajon Pass. San Antonio Peak (10,080 ft/3,072 m) is the highest of the range. Citrus fruits are raised on the southern foothills. but failed to show up Saturday night at their backcountry campground when the day's hunt was over, authorities said. ``It's been dry but it's been below freezing and he's not dressed for it,'' sheriff's Sgt. Kim Ruppert said Monday from the search command post at Big Pine. Nighttime temperatures have dipped into the 20s, low enough to cause hypothermia hypothermia Abnormally low body temperature, with slowing of physiological activity. It is artificially induced (usually with ice baths) for certain surgical procedures and cancer treatments. , and Gamez's food and water would be running out by Monday, Ruppert said. About 20 searchers from the Antelope Valley, Montrose and Sierra Madre search and rescue teams, with four search dogs and two helicopters, hunted Monday through the canyons and ridges of the 39,000-acre Sheep Mountain Wilderness Sheep Mountain Wilderness is a section of the Angeles National Forest which extends north west from the Cucamonga Wilderness. Notable hiking in the area includes Heaton Flats along the East Fork of the San Gabriel River to Bridge to Nowhere. south of Wrightwood, as well as in adjoining areas of the forest. Some searchers were preparing to spend the night in the wilderness and resume the search this morning, Ruppert said. Gamez and his companions had been camped for the Veterans Day weekend at Lupine lupine or lupin (l  `pĭn), any species of the genus Lupinus, annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of the family Leguminosae (pulse family). Campground, reachable only by about five miles of dirt road. Gamez had outpaced his companions, who last talked to him about 11 a.m. Saturday by two-way radio, officials said. ``He was hunting and looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. deer and said he was fine. That was the last they heard from him,'' Ruppert said. When Gamez didn't return Saturday night to their campground, his companions grew worried and contacted authorities. Helicopters and searchers on the ground hunted Sunday for him until sundown, than resumed again Monday morning, sheriff's Lt. Larry Gregg said. |
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